"PhoneRinger" <pickuptrk915@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid> wrote in message
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> Would you sport that phone?...:-p
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Looks like a Motorola 8000[S], which was the first 'portable' cellphone
marketed. Their first cellphone (1973) was the DynaTAC
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...rtinCooper.jpg
which as you can see is about twice the size.

The first phone that would go in a shirt pocket was the UK manufactured
Technofone released early 1986. The originals looked a bit like this
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?im...006-12,WZPA:en
certainly in terms of size.

Mine (actually a MkII replacement under warranty for SNo 32) is in the
Science and Industry Museum in Manchester.