The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, released in 1983, was a groundbreaking innovation in the history of telecommunications. It was ...

Dick Tracy got an atom-powered two-way wrist radio in 1946. Marty Cooper never forgot it. The Chicago boy became a star ...

Martin Cooper, a former Motorola executive who made the first cell phone call in New York City on April 3, 1973, stands with a prototype of a DynaTAC (Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage) cell ...

The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was a result of a race between Motorola and Bell Labs. Former Motorola vice president Martin Cooper made the first private call from a mobile phone to Joel Engel, ...

But the Motorola DynaTAC was an important step towards the world’s first flip/clamshell phone. Without the Motorola DynaTAC and the MicroTAC, we wouldn’t have had the StarTAC. And without the StarTAC, ...

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 ...

That all changed on March 13 1984, when the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X became the first mobile phone to be sold in the US Midwest and East coast, more than a year after it was first revealed.

Martin Cooper, the inventor of first commercial mobile phone, poses with a Motorola DynaTAC 8000x at the Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona, Spain.

Martin Cooper holds a Motorola DynaTAC, a 1973 prototype of the first handheld cellular telephone, in San Francisco in 2003. Like skyscrapers, improv comedy or even a good hot dog, the cellphone ...

Since the days of the original Motorola DynaTAC, mobile phones have taken on many forms with various combinations of style and function.Some novel ideas incorporated into handset designs have ...

The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, released in 1983, was a groundbreaking innovation in the history of telecommunications.It was the first commercially available handheld mobile phone, launching a new ...