Motorola DynaTAC - Wikipedia
The DynaTac 8000X, due to its resemblance in size and weight to a standard clay-fired brick, was nicknamed the brick phone by users, [21] a term later applied to other brands as a contrast to smaller handsets appearing in the 1990s.
Classic Motorola Phones that rocked the tech world | Stuff
2024年4月26日 · The MicroTAC made headlines across the world when it landed five years after Moto’s original grey brick, mostly due to the fact that it was the smallest and lightest mobile phone in the world at that time.
History Of The Cell Phone (1973 to 2024) - Practically Networked
Motorola developed the first portable cell phone in 1973. The hand-held device was shaped like a brick and weighed around 2.4 pounds. It was called the DynaTAC 8000X and is considered as the original cell phone. The device only operated for a maximum of 30 minutes talk time, and that was with a huge 10 hours of charging!
First cell phone a true 'brick' - NBC News
2005年4月11日 · Rudy Krolopp, lead designer of the first cell phone, poses with the DynaTAC8000X and Motorola's new Razr cell phone in Schaumburg, Ill. M. Spencer Green / AP. "The brick" weighed 2 pounds,...
The First Cellphone: Discover Motorola’s DynaTAC 8000X, a 2 ...
2021年5月20日 · Take it from Martin Cooper, the Motorola Engineer who invented the first handheld cellular mobile phone. “We didn’t know it was going to be historic in any way at all,” he says of the first publicly demonstrated cellphone call in 1973 in the Bloomberg video above.
Motorola - DynaTAC 8000X - Mobile Phone Museum
It offered 30 minutes of talk-time on a single charge (which would take 10 hours!) and weighed 790 grams. It was affectionally known as the “brick phone” and is famous for being used by the character Gordon Gekko in the movie Wall Street in 1987.
From 'the Brick' to the iPhone, the Cellphone Celebrates 50 ...
It was April 3, 1973, and Cooper had just placed the world’s first cellphone call. Cooper, who worked for Motorola, had just stepped out of the Hilton Midtown where he would soon officially...
The Golden Age of Motorola Cell Phones - PCMag
2018年4月12日 · Forty-five years ago this month—in April 1973—Motorola engineer Marty Cooper placed the first cellular telephone call, ushering in a new era of mobile communications. Cooper used a prototype...
What a Brick! – The World’s First Cell Phone - SciHi Blog
On September 21, 1983, the Motorola DynaTAC, the world ‘s first commercially available cell phone received its FCC certification. DynaTAC was an abbreviation of Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage.
The First Mobile Phone: DynaTAC 8000X | TL Dev Tech
2022年12月3日 · The first mobile phone was created in 1973 by Martin Cooper, a researcher at Motorola. The phone was called the DynaTAC 8000X, and it weighed in at a whopping two pounds! The DynaTAC acronym stands for “Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage”. 8000X was the original “brick” mobile phone and was big and bulky. The DynaTAC made its debut in ...