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The Cell Revolution

 

 

The current era of cell phones with the IPhone and Samsung Galaxy (a way better phone by the way) owes a great debt to the original cell phone and the growing pains it went through

 

 

 

The first mobile phone call was made in 1973 by a division manager at Motorola. Ten years later on September 21,1983 the first mobile phone went on the market. The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X listed price at the time was $3,995. It instantly became a status symbol. In movies you saw Gordon Gekko in Wall Street have one and you saw wrestler Paul Dangerously carry one  all the time and even use as a weapon as the phone was heavy as a brick.

 

 

 

In 1989 the Motorola MicroTac 9800X was the first truly portable phone. It looked like the communication devices from Star Trek as it flipped open. None of the original phones did anything but call phone numbers.  The first cell phones with a web browser was the Ericsson R320  was released in 2000.  The first qwerty keypad phones was the Nokia 5510 which was released in 2001.  

 

 

 

We fast forward a little to 2007 when the first IPhone was released by Apple. In these times cell phones are able to do almost anything except cook your dinner and I am sure that’s coming soon. Cell Phones have gone from only rich wall street types having them to now being able to buy one anywhere for next to nothing. You can literally say “Let me get 3 chicken wings fried hard and a cell phone”  The cell phone has come a long way imagine in 10 years what they will be able to do

 

 

 

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