My first cellphone
Jun. 9th, 2003 09:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisThe Gizmodo had a little trip down memory lane on his website today that included this little gem. It was my first cellphone. I was the communications manager for the IBM lab at Santa Teresa (just below San Jose) and security and HR thought they should be able to talk to me any time they wanted so they gave me this. I agreed only if they would foot the bill for any personal calls I wanted. They said ok and I said ok.
I knew people with car phones but I was the only one I knew with a cell phone. And I was the coolest kid on the block. I loved calling people from strange places. You could only hear the ringer on it when you were in a library. No voice mail. No vibration (would have made a hell of a sex toy).
It was a big mother.
Motorola was one of our customers and I remember we had this executive visiting one day and he whipped out his cellphone - not even yet on the market. I'd never seen anything so small (it was probably three times the size of my Treo). I remember making the brilliant comment that the small thing would never work out for women because we'd never find it in the bottom of our bags.
Motorola DynaTAC 8000X cellphone
From Motorola, the first commercial portable cellular phone to receive FCC approval. The DynaTAC 8000X, which weighed just 28 ounces, worked on the new Advanced Mobile Phone Service (which did have surprisingly good range) and had an LED display, memory to store thirty "dialing locations," and enough battery life for 30 minutes of talk time and eight hours of standby. Retail price: $3,995.
I knew people with car phones but I was the only one I knew with a cell phone. And I was the coolest kid on the block. I loved calling people from strange places. You could only hear the ringer on it when you were in a library. No voice mail. No vibration (would have made a hell of a sex toy).
It was a big mother.
Motorola was one of our customers and I remember we had this executive visiting one day and he whipped out his cellphone - not even yet on the market. I'd never seen anything so small (it was probably three times the size of my Treo). I remember making the brilliant comment that the small thing would never work out for women because we'd never find it in the bottom of our bags.
Motorola DynaTAC 8000X cellphone
From Motorola, the first commercial portable cellular phone to receive FCC approval. The DynaTAC 8000X, which weighed just 28 ounces, worked on the new Advanced Mobile Phone Service (which did have surprisingly good range) and had an LED display, memory to store thirty "dialing locations," and enough battery life for 30 minutes of talk time and eight hours of standby. Retail price: $3,995.
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Date: 2003-06-10 06:26 am (UTC)