Technology, Internet & Money
What was the US retail price of the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, the first commercial handheld mobile phone, at its 1984 launch, in US dollars?
Answer
3,995 US dollars
That's roughly $12,000 in today's money for a phone nicknamed 'the brick' — it took about 10 hours to charge and delivered roughly 30 minutes of talk time.
Source: Motorola / Wikipedia (Motorola DynaTAC)
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