Timeline Sunday 6 March 1983

Events on Sunday 6 March 1983 1

• 1983 Motorola DynaTAC 8000X Launched First commercially available handheld mobile phone Motorola released the DynaTAC 8000X, the first handheld cellular phone approved for commercial sale, after a decade of development. It weighed nearly a kilogram, cost about four thousand dollars, and offered roughly thirty minutes of talk time. It marked the beginning of the consumer mobile phone industry.