You really spend five hours a day? Get a life!” he stated, before bursting into laughter. Chicago-based Cooper invented the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X — the world’s first cellphone — back in 1973.

Those were the days, weren’t they? Zack, Screech, AC and the gang still roamed the halls of Bayside High, MC Hammer wasn’t in bankruptcy, and the Motorola DynaTAC was hot technology.

Thirty years ago today, the first commercial cell phone call was placed from Soldier Field in Chicago using a Motorola DynaTAC mobile phone that was not quite as comically huge as you might ...

But it all began with the DynaTAC, which grew out of the daring and imagination of Motorola engineers 35 years ago. To commemorate the feat, the group last week received the "Great Moments in ...

Motorola made history with the DynaTAC 8000X, the first commercial cell phone. Inventor Martin Cooper's first call on the DynaTAC to Bell Laboratories was a pivotal moment in cell phone history.

Motorola debuted the DynaTAC 8000X in 1983, the first portable cellular phone for consumer use. Better known as the phone that Gordon Gekko carried (lugged?) around in the 1987 movie Wall Street ...

Cellular One was the company formed by the American Radio Telephone Service and Motorola to offer cell service in the Washington D.C. area, the company that sold and provided service for this DynaTAC ...

My favorite shot of this series is the side-by-side comparison shot showing exactly how thick the DynaTAC was and how thin the iPhone is. %Gallery-9780% So how do the two phones compare?

Boy, did that call change our lives. The DynaTAC phone weighed about 2.2 pounds and was 10 inches long. It was about 10 years before Motorola made the cell phone available to the mass market.

Nino Brown Runs New York with the DynaTAC Where It's From:New Jack City Date: 1991 Complex says: Nobody embodied hood-rich social mobility on-screen better than Nino Brown.