A quarter-century ago, Motorola introduced the first cellular phone to the consumer market. Weighing in at a hefty 1.75 pounds, the $3,995 "brick phone" looked not at all like the sleek, slim models of the current era. This rechargeable 10-inch tall behemoth allowed its user a full hour of talk time per charge.
DynaTAC is a series of cellular telephones manufactured by Motorola, Inc. from 1983 to 1994. With several different models, plus newer models under the Classic and Ultra Classic names, it was the first line of cell phones commercially produced by Motorola, with the first member of the DynaTAC series, the 8000x, being the first cell phone to receive U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) acceptance in 1983. DynaTAC was actually an abbreviation of Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage.
The DynaTAC has become associated with the 1980s in popular culture, and has been heavily used in film and media set in that period.
The phone is well known for being used by Gordon Gekko in Wall Street, and Tommy Vercetti in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. It is also used by Patrick Bateman in American Psycho. The phones have been given the nickname "Zack Morris phones" because of their heavy use by the central character in the sitcom Saved by the Bell.
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