Anybody reading this on a hand-held phone should consider themselves fortunate. Forty years ago, the DynaTAC 8000X was the ...
The following is a transcript of the video: Before cell phones, there were car phones. In fact, the original car phone weighed about 80 pounds. In 1947, an engineer at Bell Labs envisioned a ...
Weight was still an issue for mobile manufacturers in the 1980s but phones were by now far better suited for use in a car. Lighter battery packs could be easily carried in the boot and phones no ...