30 years to the first commercial call on a portable cell phone
30 years ago, on October 13, 1983, a commercial cell phone call was made for the first time. The Motorola DynaTAC was used — from him ten years earlier, Motorola employee Martin Cooper called AT & T to please the competition with his success.
The first commercial call was made in Chicago by the president of Ameritech, later renamed Verizon, by Bob Barnett. His addressee was the grandson of Alexander Graham Bell.
Weight: 1.15 kg
Parameters: 22.5x12.5x3.75 cm (without antenna)
Display: Red LED
Talk time: 35 minutes
Standby time: 8 hours
Price: $ 3,995 in 1983 (for $ 9,398.11)
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Shot from the film "Wall Street", 1987
The Motorola DynaTAC prototype was created in 1973, and in 1984 the company began mass-producing DynaTAC 8000x, which has been highlighted in many films - including Wall Street and American Psycho. (And also, if I'm not mistaken, in the first part of the “Armor of God”)
A cell phone weighing about a kilogram in 1973 was considered a tremendous achievement. The head of one of the departments of Bell Laboratories later noted: “It was a real triumph. At that time, we used 14-kilogram telephones in the cars. Their ability to hold everything needed in 1 kg was a big breakthrough. ”
Frame from the film “American Psycho”
In this photo - Martin Cooper with the first prototype of the phone. Photos of 2007.
The display showed the number to be dialed. Moreover, the phone was able to memorize up to 30 numbers.
The next few decades, Motorola has reduced its phones. Do you remember this fashion for super-thin, super-light mobiles?
Left - the communicator from the "Star Trek"
1996 Motorola StarTAC phone, the world's first clamshell.
In January 2011, Motorola was divided into two companies : Motorola Solutions and Motorola Mobility. At the moment, Motorola Mobility is owned by Google , the transaction amount was $ 12.5 billion.
It is interesting:
Old advertisements for cell phones and smartphones (from the 1980s to the end of the 2000s)
Advertising laptops of the 1980s and 1990s
The first commercial call was made in Chicago by the president of Ameritech, later renamed Verizon, by Bob Barnett. His addressee was the grandson of Alexander Graham Bell.
Motorola DynaTAC
Weight: 1.15 kg
Parameters: 22.5x12.5x3.75 cm (without antenna)
Display: Red LED
Talk time: 35 minutes
Standby time: 8 hours
Price: $ 3,995 in 1983 (for $ 9,398.11)
')
Shot from the film "Wall Street", 1987
The Motorola DynaTAC prototype was created in 1973, and in 1984 the company began mass-producing DynaTAC 8000x, which has been highlighted in many films - including Wall Street and American Psycho. (And also, if I'm not mistaken, in the first part of the “Armor of God”)
A cell phone weighing about a kilogram in 1973 was considered a tremendous achievement. The head of one of the departments of Bell Laboratories later noted: “It was a real triumph. At that time, we used 14-kilogram telephones in the cars. Their ability to hold everything needed in 1 kg was a big breakthrough. ”
Frame from the film “American Psycho”
In this photo - Martin Cooper with the first prototype of the phone. Photos of 2007.
The display showed the number to be dialed. Moreover, the phone was able to memorize up to 30 numbers.
The next few decades, Motorola has reduced its phones. Do you remember this fashion for super-thin, super-light mobiles?
Left - the communicator from the "Star Trek"
1996 Motorola StarTAC phone, the world's first clamshell.
In January 2011, Motorola was divided into two companies : Motorola Solutions and Motorola Mobility. At the moment, Motorola Mobility is owned by Google , the transaction amount was $ 12.5 billion.
It is interesting:
Old advertisements for cell phones and smartphones (from the 1980s to the end of the 2000s)
Advertising laptops of the 1980s and 1990s
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/197560/
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