Το πρώτο κινητό τηλέφωνο που διατίθεται στο εμπόριο: DynaTAC 8000X της Motorola, με τιμή 3.995 $. 1984.
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Το πρώτο κινητό τηλέφωνο που διατίθεται στο εμπόριο: DynaTAC 8000X της Motorola, με τιμή 3.995 $. 1984.
Okay, but how much was the phone ☎️
If you lost that phone, you deserved it…
Wrong! Simonsen AMT-10 was available in 1981: https://img.gfx.no/1799/1799650/Mobil%2040%20120612011517.jpg
Battery would last minutes, sometimes! 🙂
My parent’s first VCR was $800 (which was equal to two mortgage payments), so I can believe it.
I worked in a camera store in the 90’s. The first digital camera we sold, the Sony Mavica, was $1,899. A whopping 3 megapixels!
Known as “The Brick”!
With that kind of size, I can’t believe it’s white
Had my first mobile phone in 1986. Had one ever since. First one was in a bag.
I had a Motorola Dynatac in the early nineties. Battery stand by time was approximately 8 hours, talking time less than 1 hour. Apart from the huge telephone, you also had to carry two extra large batteries and a large battery charger. But, at the time, I was quite happy with it and it made work a lot easier.
I wonder how many pictures it held.
Yes I had one linked into speakers in my car very cool in it’s day. (The phone).
Went from this to what we have today in less than 40 years. Maybe someone’s smart enough to do the same with electric cars, solar panels, etc.
Used to sell them lol 😂
Good grief stuff from when I was a kid is now historical 😭 lol My step dad had one and it was sooo heavy, we called it the brick lol
If you look close, there is a phone in the picture 😉
I purchased a Range Rover many years ago with a brick in it. Amazing how far they’ve come.
Well, at least the price of cell phones has gone down. Now if we could only have affordable places to live..
Perfect! It was a multipurpose device: cell phone and also a weapon for self-defense. One brick in our head and that’s it: goodbye, thief!
Those analog phones had great audio quality, much better than modern phones
This was my first mobile phone in the late 80’s. The battery would not hold a charge for more than a couple of hours! 😂
I still have mine.
💪😂🤦🏼♀️
all the tv shows in the 50s and 60s showed wealthy powerful men on telephones in their large auto mobiles and that was too expensive and the converting radio signals back into landline networks was cost prohibitive to make widescale use of so it was a matter of time before the wireless infrastructure could be built up to make cellular affordable.
I would rent mine when I went away!
I probably would have bought her one, even at that price.
And the *per minute rate might as well had been 100$ per minute
Still got one, pride and joy of my collection….👍👍👍👍
I had the base unit installed in my car back in 1990.
It was the first mobile phone I used. It was amazing I could stand on a hill and still talk on the phone
It had to be charged at regular intervals during the day left on charge all night and weighed more than the average brick – John expected me to add it to my handbag clutter – only once did I do that. You could leave it on the roof if a car abc it wouldn’t move it happened to us twice!
Still make pretty good phones, my last few phones have been Motorola’s and have gotten plenty of life out of both.
I only paid $800 for mine, of course there was a monthly charge and an annual fee to the federal government for the radio licence.. Still have it..
My wife had a used one for several years that was passed down to me. I only only used it at deer lease in Hondo, always had great reception!
My 6th grade teacher was a wealthy real estate developer who decided to teach for the love of it. He had a bag cell phone and a Delorean. You couldn’t tell us this guy wasn’t James Bond
I actually had one for work, really old.
They are approaching that same price today.
I remember having one. It dropped a lot of calls, and you needed a spare battery or two.
I sold them- I worked at an electronics/appliance store called SILO in Philly…
Between the credit check and all the setup and showing them how to use it, it took about the same amount of time to sell one of those things as it would a car😂
I would definitely answer that call! 😀
I payed £2300 for my first phone which was about the same size as the one in the pic. That was around 1985/86. Each call was 25p per minute and you were charged even if there was no answer at the other end. Even 15secs was charged at a minute rate
It all had to start somewhere and that was the best commercialization of integrated circuitry at the time. From small yet significant beginnings ……….
technology evolves with time ,
but human beaty is timeless