Lynn Melbourne: According to this source, the first "hand-held mobile phone call" was made on April 3, 1973 by Martin Cooper and it weighed 2.5 lbs (1.1kg) 5th paragraphSource also states that the first "mobile phone call" was by a truck driver in 1946 on a phone that weighed 80 pounds, and by 1948 wireless phone service was available in almost 100 cities....Show more
Gerardo Greist: In the 80s, and it was the size of a brick and weighed about as much.
Heidy Fujikake: the first handheld mobile phone was released in 1983, it was the motorola DynaTAC 8000x,at the time it was considered revolutionary, because mobile telephones were bulky affairs installed in vehicles, or in heavy briefcases. The DynaTAC 8000X was truly the first mobile telephone which could connect to the telephone network without the assistance of a mobile operator and could be carried about by the user, and came with a hefty price tag of $3,995 USD.With the removal of analog network cells near! ly all over the world, the DynaTAC models running on AMPS or other analog networks are mostly obsolete. Thus, they are more collectors' items than usable telephones. The International series, however, will still work, but only on GSM 900 cells....Show more
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