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The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. In 1984, it became the first commercially available handheld cellular mobile phone. #firstcellphone #History #fyp #mrfunfy #oldtv

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I'm calling you from a cell phone, but a real cell phone, personal, handheld, portable cell phone. There were silence at the other end of the line. To this day, Joel doesn't remember that call, and I'm not sure I blame him. This is an exact model of the very first cell phone. There were only two phones in existence at that time. The biggest issue in that first call, we didn't know it was going to be historic. In any way at all, we were only worried about one thing. Is the phone going to work when we turn it on? Fortunately, it did.