First Handheld Mobile Phone

The first cellular phone was the culmination of efforts begun at Bell Labs,
which first proposed the idea of a cellular system in 1947 and continued to
petition the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for channels through
the 1950s and 1960s, and research conducted at Motorola. In 1960, electrical
engineer John F. Mitchell became Motorola's chief engineer for its mobile
communication products. Mitchell oversaw the development and marketing of
the first pager to use transistors.
The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first handheld cellular phone that
allowed people to make longer distance calls than just a landline phone. It did
not require any lines or cords to be attached to make a call. The first ever
cellular phone call was made in 1973, using this phone, by Dr. Martin Cooper.
A full charge took about 10 hours, and it offered 30 minutes of talk time. It
also offered an LED display for dialing or recall of one of 30 phone numbers.
It was priced at $3,995 in 1984, its commercial release year, equivalent to
$10,420 in 2021. DynaTAC was an abbreviation of "Dynamic Adaptive Total
Area Coverage“.