While most of us have moved on from the cellphones of the early 2000s, anyone who might have kept their older models could be ...

The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X released in 1983 was a significant milestone in the history of mobile telecommunications as the first commercially available handheld cellular phone. The DynaTAC 8000X ...

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Martin Cooper holds the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, the world's first cell phone. After decades of research and development, Motorola unveiled the world’s first cell phone prototype in 1973.

But then, in 1973, Motorola engineer Martin Cooper showed what the future would look like: the DynaTAC 8000X. Based on Bell's cell network concept, it was the world's first handheld cell phone.

In 1983, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved Motorola's DynaTAC 8000X telephone, which was then the world's first commercially available cellular device. "Bob was a visionary ...