Facts about the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X

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Did you know that the first cell phone ever invented weighed about 2.5 pounds? How would you like to carry that around? It was invented by Motorola. Motorola has been around for over 90 years! If you’d like to learn more cool facts about the first cell phone just continue to read on.

 

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Facts about the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X:

1. The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was invented by Martin Cooper at a company that was founded in September of 1928. The company’s name was Galvin Manufacturing Corporation and later on it changed its name to Motorola. Martin Cooper led the team of engineers at Motorola that helped him design the very first cell phone. The cell phone was being developed from about 1968 to 1983/84.

2. One of Motorola’s engineers and the designer of the first cell phone, Martin Cooper, placed the first public call on the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X on 6^th Street in Manhattan, New York. The call was made on April 3, 1973. Martin Cooper is said to be the father of the handheld cell phone.

3. The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X weighed about 2 and a half pounds (2.5lbs). It was about 10 inches long. It’s a good thing that technology has advanced and cell phones are much easier to handle.

4. The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X wasn’t released to the public until 1983/84, and it came with a huge price tag of about $3,995.00 dollars.

5. It took about ten (10) hours to fully charge the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X’s battery and that only provided about thirty (30) minutes of time to talk.

6. The Motorola DynaTac 8000X cell phone was a series of cellphones that were released to the public between 1983 to 1994.

7. Rudy Krolopp, John Francis Mitchell, and Martin Cooper was all a team of engineers who helped design the Motorola DynaTac 8000X cell phone.

 

 

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Books about cell phones:

1. Noah's New Phone by Dina Alexander

2. Floof Wants A Phone by Jade Maitre

3. First Phone by Catherine Pearlman

4. Cutting the Cord by Martin Cooper (teachers)

 

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