The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X - 1983 Flashback5650
Administrator posted in Motorola on April 30th, 2005
When you are reviewing the most current cellular phone offerings, ensure you remember what you could have had. The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the world’s first cell phone. It was over 22 years ago, with it’s launch on March 6, 1983. I was nearly out of highschool, and people were talking about portable phones for sometime – and the home cordless market was only 
starting to grow!
The best part about the phone was that it had an incredible 30 minutes of talk time, eight hours of standby and memory to store thirty “dialing locations.” But – better yet, it was $3,995! Sometimes you have to appreciate our phones that will stay on standby for days, talk for hours and store more numbers than we know what to do with.
The designer of the phone was Rudy Krolopp, now 74 and retired, but is simply known to the rest of the world as the “Father of the Cell Phone.” The phone came together after AT&Ts petitioning of the government to allow it to operate wireless service in local markets in December of 1972. Ten years later, and over $100 million in development costs the phone was released. If there were cell phone towers to use them on, they may have been introduced earlier.
When you put your tiny phone in your pocket, remember, it was bad once!
