While waiting around for the time to go to the hospital for radiation treatment, I was watching the discovery channel, and they had all about phones, from inception to the modern day.

Did you know that the original cell phone, called a Dynatac, introduced in the 1970's went for over $4,000? And they basically flew off the shelves. Remember: 1970's dollars!

 

Oh wow! That's crazy. less than 20 years after that, the first Motorola Startac sold for $2400 and it was just straight TDMA.

 

I remember going apeshit over the startac... I wanted one so bad.

 

So was 90% of the upper class asian community in Dallas & Houston. At the time, one of Verizon's previously baby companies PrimeCo was introduced and I got one of those phones instead and it worked out with the affiliate rateplan

 

Man that Startac Vader was to die for haha

 

do you know what your talking about??

startac top phone





vader or vulcan or v8160 <<multiple names for the phone

 

 

Wrong...first startac was ANALOG...the 3000 model and the 6000 model...first it was gray in color and the second one was black...look at the buttons on the analog phone..it was straight up raw...

Why i know all this stuff about phones beats me...

 

well put...cause u were PIZowned also...

 

i still see people using those startacs

 

I had this one, it was dope.






DFreder, how you doin man? Don't know if you want to get into it here, but you mentioned the treatments so I thought I'd ask.

 

Hehe, I put those half-blue keys (for the browser) on the V-phone.

 

There is a lengthy summary over in R&P.

 

thats dope..

 

I saw my friend's mom's startac...the one she bought for $2400 bucks...it sold on eBay for $36 bucks haha.

 

i had the star tac, and the organizer thing that stuck onto it...

ahh, so many god damn phones!

 

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