Editing DynaTAC (section)

{{Short description|1980s cellphone series}}
{{Infobox mobile phone
| name         = DynaTAC
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| image        = DynaTAC8000X.jpg
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| caption      = A DynaTAC 8000X, the first commercially available handheld mobile phone from 1983
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| manufacturer = [[Motorola]]
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| networks     = [[Advanced Mobile Phone System]] or [[GSM]] on [[Ameritech]]
| released     = {{start date and age|1983|03|06}}
| available    = US: {{Start date|1983|09|21}}
| discontinued = {{End date and age|1994}} 
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| successor    = [[MicroTAC]]
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| form         = Brick
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| charging     = 10 Hours
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| input        = [[Push-button]]
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[[File:2007Computex e21Forum-MartinCooper.jpg|thumb|Electrical engineer [[Martin Cooper (inventor)|Martin Cooper]] of Motorola made the first publicized handheld mobile phone call on a prototype DynaTAC model on April 3, 1973. This is a reenactment in 2007.]]

The '''DynaTAC''' is a series of [[Mobile phone|cellular telephones]] manufactured by [[Motorola]] from 1983 to 1994. Unveiled on March 6, 1983, the DynaTAC was the first commercially available handheld cellular phone.<ref>{{cite web | last=Eger | first=Arthur O. | author2=Huub Ehlhardt | date=2018 | url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/On_the_Origin_of_Products/BKlJDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=dynatac+first+commercially+available+cell+phone&pg=PA103&printsec=frontcover | title=On the Origin of Products: The Evolution of Product Innovation and Design | publisher=9781316947302 | via=Google Books}}</ref>{{efn|The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X received approval from the U.S. [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]] on September 21, 1983.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.motorola.com/us/consumers/About_Motorola-History-Timeline/About_Motorola-History-Timeline,en_US,pg.html#1980|title=Motorola DynaTAC 8000X|publisher=Motorola Mobility 2011|access-date=2014-08-19|archive-date=2013-07-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130702214658/https://www.motorola.com/us/consumers/About_Motorola-History-Timeline/About_Motorola-History-Timeline,en_US,pg.html#1980|url-status=dead}}</ref>}} A full charge took roughly 10 hours, and it offered 30 minutes of talk time.<ref>[http://www.redorbit.com/reference/the-history-of-mobile-phone-technology/ "The History of Mobile Phone Technology"]. RedOrbit.</ref> It also offered a [[LED display]] for dialing or recall of one of 30 phone numbers. It was priced at US$3,995 in 1984, its commercial release year, equivalent to ${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|3995|1984|r=0}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US}}.{{inflation-fn|US}}

Several models followed, starting in 1985 with the 8000s and continuing with periodic updates of increasing frequency until 1993's Classic II. The DynaTAC was replaced in most roles by the much smaller [[MicroTAC]] when it was first introduced in 1989, and by the time of the [[StarTAC]]'s release in 1996, it was obsolete.