
The only feature of the device was to make a call. The early mobile phone users were mainly rich and strong – the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X cost $3,995 and was the size of a brick - weighted the whole 2 lbs!
"Since its first use 40 years ago, the mobile phone has completely changed our lives. The first decade was a research or a 'demonstrator' phase, rapidly followed by analogue networks deployed over 10 years from the early 1980s largely based on carphones and used in business in the developed world.
This soon led to the digital decade mainly between 1993 and 2003 when consumerisation and globalization of mobile really took off.
"This led to a further data adoption phase with the arrival of 3G and during 2003 to 2013 access to the internet and the wider use of smartphones became a reality," - Mike Short, an expert from the Institution of Engineering and Technology, commented.

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