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Motorola StarTAC

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The Motorola StarTac | Walt Mossberg's gadget museum

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Motorola StarTAC Ad

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Motorola StarTAC Rainbow.

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Motorola StarTac, anunciado en 1996 | Historia Telefonía Móvil

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Motorola StarTac 130 demonstration!

The Motorola StarTAC, first released on 3 January 1996, is the first ever clamshell (flip) mobile phone. The StarTAC is the successor of the MicroTAC, a semi-clamshell design first launched in 1989. Whereas the MicroTAC's flip folded down from below the keypad, the StarTAC folded up from above the display. In 2005, PC World named the StarTAC as the 6th Greatest Gadget of the Past 50 Years. The StarTAC was among the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption; approximately 60 million StarTACs were sold.
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