Have you seen a 1964 cell phone? It can't be a wireless landline

by bugbear on 2010-10-13 18:43:25

According to Pew Internet &, a well-known research organization in the United States, According to the American Life Project, the first commercial "mobile radio telephone service" was provided in St. Louis in 1946, allowing users to make calls from fixed or mobile phones, and by 1964 there were 1.5 million mobile phone subscribers in the United States.

Cell phones were very heavy, very expensive, and very energy-hungry in-car devices that used radio waves to get the job done, and the car lights dimmed significantly when users were talking on them, recalls communications expert Thomas Farley.