Twenty-Five Years Ago Today: The First Cell Phone Rang in St. Louis
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| "The Brick" |
Back then the few cell-phone subscribers on the network used the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X -- an early portable phone that cost $3,995, measured 13 inches long and weighed 1 ¾ pounds. Dubbed "The Brick", the phone offered just one hour worth of talk time and eight hours of standby for every recharging.
Of course, its benefits were that you could actually see the numbers on the Brick keypad and the phone rarely -- if ever -- got lost in the couch cushions.
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