On March 6th, 1983, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was introduced by Motorola as the first commercially available handheld cellular phone. The DynaTAC received FCC approval on September 21st, 1983 after a decade of development and over $100 million in investment, and was released in 1984. Designed by a team led by Martin Cooper (who made the first cellular phone call in 1973), the phone weighed approximately 2.5 pounds and was 10 inches tall, earning it the nickname "the brick". The DynaTAC only offered 30 minutes of talk time for every 10 hours of charging, and hit the market with a whopping retail price of $3995 (equivalent to over $12,000 today).
