What to do with your old cellphones

The Beginning of Cellphones

By kgriggs97

  • First Idea of A Cellphone

    First Idea of A Cellphone
    Travelers could place calls to and from ocean liners in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean for $7 a minute.(which is roughly $100 a minute today)

  • First Mobile Phone System for Cars

    First Mobile Phone System for Cars
    The first time that calls could be made and recieved in a car while using the public telephone network

  • Motorola Executives Invention

    Motorola Executives Invention
    Maritn Cooper made the first telephone call from handhelder subscriber equipment. The heldhand phone weighed 2.5 pounds, 9 inches long, 5 inches deep, and 1.75 inches wide. The call lasted for 30 minutes and took 10 hours to recharge.

  • Nordic Mobile Telephone System

    Nordic Mobile Telephone System
    The first generation of a mobile telephone system came up in Norway and Sweden. Osten Makitalo is known as the father of NMT and NMT is known as the mother of all telephone systems. it was designed to mount in the trunk of a car and and a portable keyboard would be at the drivers seat.

  • Motorola Sells First Phone

    Motorola Sells First Phone
    Motorola started selling the DynaTAC8000X, which was the first portable cellphone, seeling at $3995. It weighed 790 grams, and was 10 inches hight. It also had a rubber antenna. After a 30 minute talk, it would need 8 hours to recharge.