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It’s hard to believe that society lived without cell phones but as early as 1956 there was an 88 pound MTA phone which was bolted into a car and considered a mobile phone.  However they were so large and power-hungry, they only existed in two Swedish cities and served only 125 subscribers from the year it began until 1967.

The first real mobile phone was more like a large square telephone receiver and not like cool small iPhones we see now, but they did their job and allowed people to walk around free from wires enabling them to speak to anyone who had a phone and anyone who was willing to pay the high cost of owning such a mobile phone – the first models ran around $3995 which would be approximately $8,677 now.

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