General Information

Serial #

4041A

Part Number

2

Total Parts

3

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Synthetic casing; metal electrical contacts

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

19.3 cm

Width

4.0 cm

Height

1.9 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Communications

Category

Telephony

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Motorola

Country

United States of America

State/Province

Unknown

City

Unknown

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

Period

1991-2007

Canada

Mr. Tsiriotakis purchased this phone on E-bay in 2002. He used it until May 31, 2007, when at 11:55 pm he made the last analogue phone call in Canada over the Rogers network. The phone call ended at 12:01 am on June 1, at which time Rogers ceased to provide analogue phone services. Toronto Star featured Mr. Tsiriotakis's call in an article that was reprinted around the world and posted on cell phone related web sites including the Motorola site.

Function

Used to provide power to a Motorola Dynasty model radiotelephone.

Technical

The phone, made in 1991, is a later version of a DynaTAC line. Motorola's DynaTAC, which stands for Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage, was the first handheld mobile phone to receive approval of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in 1983. It is considered to be the first handheld cellular phone. A prototype of the phone was created by Dr. Martin Cooper in 1973. In April of that year Dr. Cooper made the first cell phone call to his competitor at Bell Labs. The phone went into production in 1983, and despite the $3,995 US price tag, sold hundreds of thousands of units. The Dynasty, although smaller than the 1983 model, was almost identical to the DynaTAC and used the same battery charger as the original model.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

A sticker on the proper front: white writing in a red-coloured section: "WARNING/ MAY EXPLODE IF/ DISPOSED OF IN FIRE"/ White writing in a green-coloured section: "[logo] MOTOROLA/ 7.5V Nickel-Cadmium Battery/ MUST BE RECYCLED OR DISPOSED OF PROPERLY./ RECYCLING FACILITIES MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE IN ALL AREAS./ SEE MANUAL BATTERY SECTION FOR USER INFORMATION./ CHARGE BEFORE INITIAL USE."/ Black writing around a bar code in a white section: "SNN4041A 435 MD9427/ U. S. PATS DES269873"/ In green writing in the white section: "[logo]/ Ni-Cd"

Missing

None

Finish

Grey plastic.

Decoration

N/A