As such, it was a full 10 years
later before the first commercial cell phone, the Dynatac 8000x(“Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage”),
hit the market on March 6, 1983.
Known in the industry as“the brick” and visible in many scenes of the 1987 movie Wall Street,
the Motorola Dynatac 800X was the first handheld mobile phone
and loudly announced the beginning of a new era.