silence on the other end of the line. i think he was gritting his teeth. bell had been focusing on developing a car phone and marty wasn t impressed. is this mrs p? we have been trapped in our homes and offices by this copper wire for over 100 years. and now they were going to trap us in our cars. and we at motorola just didn t believe that was the way to go. goodbye. the way the first call was made hasn t really changed. the phone converts your voice into an electric signal, which then modulates a radio wave. the radio wave goes to a mast, the mast sends your voice to the person you re calling, and by reversing the process, that person can hear you speak. except there weren t many masts around in 1973, and mobile phones are now unrecognisable from the first model. well, there s some real icons from the mobile phone kind of timeline here. ben wood knows all about the history of mobile phones. he has his own collection. so here we have really a true icon, the motorola dynatech 8000 x,
and offices by this copper wire for over 100 years. and now they were going to trap us in our cars. and we at motorola just didn t believe that was the way to go. goodbye. the way the first call was made hasn t really changed. the phone converts your voice into an electric signal, which then modulates a radio wave. the radio wave goes to a mast, the mast sends your voice to the person you re calling, and by reversing the process, that person can hear you speak. except there weren t many masts around in 1973, and mobile phones are now unrecognisable from the first model. well, there s some real icons from the mobile phone kind of timeline here. ben wood knows all about the history of mobile phones. he has his own collection. so here we have really a true icon, the motorola dynatech 8000 x, the first truly hand portable mobile phone, conceived in 1973 when the first phone call was made on a prototype of this, launched eventually in 1984, and that device cost
what primitive times these were and i called my counterpart in the bell system, a fellow named joel. i dialled his number, and amazingly, he answered. and i said, joel, i m calling you on this cell phone. but a real cell phone a personal, hand held, portable cell phone. silence on the other end of the line. i think he was gritting his teeth. well, there s some real icons from the mobile phone kind of timeline here. ben wood knows all about the history of mobile phones. he has his own collection. so here we have really a true icon, the motorola dynatech 8000 x, the first truly hand portable mobile phone, conceived in 1973 when the first phone call was made on a prototype of this, launched eventually in 1984. and that device cost about $4,000 at the time, which would be about £9,500 today. £9,000? and it s pretty heavy again.