Cell phones turn 25

2008-10-17 / News

Photo by Jim Covington Photo by Jim Covington October 13 marked the 25th anniversary of Motorola Inc.'s first commercial cell phone (l), the $4,000 DynaTAC that was launched in 1984. The "brick" battery lasted about an hour. The number of wireless customers were fewer than 100,000. Today, nearly 266,000,000 subscribe.

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