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DynaTAC 8000X was the first handheld cellular phone

Redrum0486, Motorola DynaTAC 8000X from 1984, photographed in 2008. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 (or GFDL); unaltered. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DynaTAC8000X.jpg
Umut Çolak, DynaTAC and Samsung Galaxy Note Edge, photograph dated 22 November 2021. Voice of America image via Wikimedia Commons; public domain in the United States as U.S. government-created material. Wikimedia 1,920-pixel rendition; no additional edits. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Motorola_DynaTAC_and_Samsung_Galaxy_Note_Edge.jpg
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Redrum0486, Motorola DynaTAC 8000X from 1984, photographed in 2008. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 (or GFDL); unaltered. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DynaTAC8000X.jpg

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The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first commercially available handheld cellular phone. In 1984, it cost about US$4,000; according to the Smithsonian, the handset weighed 2.5 pounds (about 1.1 kg) and had about 30 minutes of battery life. A full charge took about ten hours. Its large size and weight earned it the nickname “the brick.”