Nowadays everyone seems to be having their own cell phone. Even kids as young as 8 years old were given cell phone by their parents to accommodate easy communications. But I wonder how many of us know what is the world’s first cell phone.
The world’s first cell phone was the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X.
Quoted from a thread in PhysOrg Forum,
“”The brick” weighed 2 pounds, was 13 x 1.75 x 3.5 inches in dimension, offered just a half-hour of talk time and eight hours of standby time for every recharging and sold for $3,995. Clunky and overpriced? Not in 1984, when consumers lined up in droves to buy the first cellular phone as soon as it hit the market. And certainly not to Rudy Krolopp, lead designer of the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X.”
Check also its entry in The 50 Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years in PC World.
If I were Krolopp, I’m sure to be damn proud of what I’ve designed. 
