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Happy birthday cell phone call
MAKE Magazine — 25 years of cell phone service... Pictured above, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X cost $3,995, was 13 inches long, and weighed 1.75 pounds... Today marks the 25th anniversary of the first commercial wireless call. It happened Oct. 13, 1983, at Soldier Field, where Ameritech Mobile, now part of Verizon Wireless, made the call from a Motorola DynaTAC 8000X known as the "brick" phone. The phone cost $3,995, was 13 inches long, and weighed 1.75 pounds. Paul Gudonis, who was vice president of marketing for Ameritech Mobile Communications and who ...

First commercial cell phone call made 25 years ago today
Yahoo! Tech Advisors — ... A certain Bob Barnett placed the fateful call—to the grandson of Alexander Graham Bell, no less—on October 13, 1983, over a $3,995 Motorola DynaTAC that was practically the size of his head. Barnett, who was then president of the old Ameritech Mobile (which was eventually absorbed into Verizon Wireless) made the call at Soldier Field, the Chicago Sun-Times reports , with a foot-long DynaTAC cell phone that tipped the scales at nearly two pounds. It was quite a day for the budding wireless industry as a whole and Ameritech Mobile in particular, which (as the Sun-Times notes) ...