THE FIRST COMMERCIAL MOBILE PHONE

The First Commercial Mobile Phone:

The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first mobile phone to receive FCC acceptance in 1983. DynaTAC was actually an abbreviation of Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage. Motorola’s DynaTAC 8000X was the world’s first commercially released mobile phone. Measuring 13 inch x 1.75 inch x 3.5 inches, this cell phone was released in 1983 with a price tag of $3,995. Motorola spent over $100-million and 15 years developing the technology. Martin Cooper, a former general manager for the systems division at Motorola led a team that produced the DynaTAC, first cell phone small enough to be easily carried. He is widely credited for making the first private handheld mobile phone call in history. 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. It is a First Generation Mobile Phone.