![]() ![]() "My mother got one a few years before I did because she thought, 'Wow, if she ever breaks down somewhere, this could be a wonderful thing to ensure her safety.'" "Hey, it's not just neat, but it's useful," Hochheiser added. Watch this: So retro: Designing the original Motorola Razr By the end of 1996, 44 million wireless US subscribers used phones and pagers, equal to 16% of the total population. After the StarTAC's debut, cell phone use shot up. It could be remotely disabled if lost or stolen.īut change was in the air for phone designs, and as cellular telephones slimmed down, more people began to covet them. Operating through an 800MHz local transceiver network as a cheaper alternative to cellular, the Zonephone had 40 hours of standby time and took four hours to recharge. There was also the Zonephone, "a novel personal communications system" for the UK, which was featured in the June 1996 issue of Popular Communications. Used by traveling salespeople who spent most of their time on the road. Transportable phone: Temporarily plugged into your car through the power socket ( like this, and also above).You know, the kind of thing you'd carry on your horse if you needed a full-power, long range cell phone in rural America (see photo below). Bag phone: Came in a carrying case, like a shoulder bag, with a battery pack.Portable phone: Looked like a brick and weighed not much less than a pound. ![]() Three kinds of "true" cell phones existed in 1995, Hochheiser remembers: ![]()
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