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.
The First Cellphone: Discover Motorola’s DynaTAC 8000X, a 2‑Pound Brick ...
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.
Classic Motorola Phones that rocked the tech world - Stuff
2024年4月26日 · When it comes to classic motorola phones, we might as well start at the beginning. Dubbed the brick phone, its antenna alone measured 20cm which, combined with its 8cm width and 784g weight, made pockets a definite no-go zone.
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...
Museum of Motorola 8000X, 28 oz 1983, vintage brick phones, …
a flip up phone / communicator was part of the original science fiction Star Trek series. We have 3 Motorola MicroTAC phones in the museum (but no Star Trek communicators).
From ‘the Brick’ to the iPhone, the Cellphone Celebrates 50 Years
2023年4月3日 · The Motorola DynaTAC—short for Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage—was the official name for what many dubbed “the Brick.” It contained 30 circuit boards, yet it weighed just 2.5 pounds ...
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.
First cell phone a true 'brick' - NBC News
2005年4月11日 · Not in 1984, when consumers lined up in droves to buy the first cellular phone as soon as it hit the market. And certainly not to Rudy Krolopp, lead designer of the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X.
Martin Cooper, cellphones’ inventor, used Motorola brick phone ...
2023年2月28日 · The inventor of the first commercial mobile phone, now 94, made that call on a Manhattan street using a Motorola prototype “brick” phone.
What a Brick! – The World’s First Cell Phone - SciHi Blog
2018年9月21日 · Prior to 1973, mobile telephony was limited to phones installed in cars and other vehicles. Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, led the team that developed the first hand-held mobile telephone for use on a cellular network. Using a really heavy portable handset, Cooper made the very first call on a handheld mobile phone on April ...