S20E22 - Before Smartphones There Was This (And It Was Massive)”

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Back before smartphones ran our lives, one “mobile” phone changed everything—and yeah, it looked like a cinder block with an antenna. In this episode of One Drink Podcast, we crack open a cold one and rewind to the debut of the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X—the original “brick.”

We get into what it cost (brace yourself), how long you could actually talk before it died (hint: not long), and why carrying one in the 80s basically screamed, “I’ve made it.” From dropped calls the size of a lunchbox to the moment the first c...