subject: From Samuel Morris to Martin Cooper – The History of the Cell Phone [print this page] The "Motorola Dyna-Tac" weighed 2.5 pounds and was 9 by 5 by 1.75 inches in size. You could talk for 35 minutes on it, and it took ten hours to recharge. Cooper then began a ten-year process to bring Motorola's "Dyna-Tac" to market. In 1983 when it was first offered, it cost $3500 and weighed a full pound. It took seven years before the "Dyna-Tac" had a million subscribers in the United States. This is remarkable considering that today a cell phone can weigh as little as three ounces and cost nothing when purchased with a contract. Even more remarkably, currently the world has more cellular subscribers than telephone landline subscribers.
From Samuel Morris to Martin Cooper The History of the Cell Phone
