
The good, the bad and the ugly...?
By Jo Best
Published: 27 November 2006 10:35 GMT
The Dynatac lays claim to being the world's first proper mobile phone and was the first to sport the 'brick' look. While other 'mobile' devices had come before the Dynatac, they involved not only carrying a handset but lugging a huge briefcase-sized battery along with it.
The 'shoe phone', as it was known, first came onto the market in 1984 costing nearly $4,000 and promising around a half an hour of talk time. The Dynatac prospered nonetheless and inspired Nokia to come up with the Cityman, an equally heavyweight brick phone aimed at the business market. The candybar mobile was born.
Photo credit: Motorola
This thing looks like a contraceptive pill case. ...
Black Jack Shellac
No date? When was this thing marketed?
Joseph Blowseph
From whay you've written, it sounds like Ericsson ...
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The R380 came out in late 1999 around the same tim...
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Thats why Morrisons are calling on you to take charge of all our mobile phones and Blackberry contracts. Were looking for an effective communicator ...
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This will be the major function to your days work and is essential that your have worked with handsets such as Nokia, Ericsson etc. Working with ...
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