Motorola MicroTAC
Sign in to saveThe MicroTAC is a series of cellular phones that was marketed by Motorola from 1989 until approximately 2000. The MicroTACs pioneered a new "flip" design in cellular handsets that was considered innovative and more compact compared to previous "brick" phones, such as Motorola's own DynaTAC line.
Key facts
- Mobile phone.name
- MicroTAC
- Mobile phone.logo
- MicroTAC logo print.svg
- Mobile phone.image
- Motorola MicroTAC 9800x.jpg
- Mobile phone.caption
- The Motorola MicroTAC 9800X; the first of many MicroTAC models produced over nearly a decade.
- Mobile phone.manufacturer
- Motorola
- Mobile phone.networks
- Advanced Mobile Phone System or GSM on Ameritech
- Mobile phone.predecessor
- DynaTAC
- Mobile phone.form
- Flip
- Mobile phone.input
- Push-button
- Mobile phone.made_in
- USA
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- mobile phone
- Manufacturer
- Motorola
- Image
- Motorola MicroTAC 9800x.jpg
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- Motorola MicroTAC
- form factor
- flip phone
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Encyclopedic overview
21 sectionsContents
- Early models
- MicroTAC 9800X
- Digital Personal Communicator
- Lite, Classic, II and Elite models
- MicroTAC Lite and the Ultra Lite
- MicroTAC Classic
- MicroTAC II
- MicroTAC Elite
- Digital and later models
- International GSM
- US digital models
- Lite II/XL
- MicroTAC 650/650E and decline
- VIP models
- Related phones
- CipherTAC
- {{anchor|Clone models}}Similar models
- Model list
- See also
- References
- External links
The MicroTAC is a series of cellular phones that was marketed by Motorola from 1989 until approximately 2000. The MicroTACs pioneered a new "flip" design in cellular handsets that was considered innovative and more compact compared to previous "brick" phones, such as Motorola's own DynaTAC line.
The MicroTAC's design consisted of the "mouthpiece" being folded over the keypad. On later production models the "mouthpiece" was actually located in the base of the phone, along with the ringer. This set the standard and became the model for later clamshell design phones, which Motorola adopted in the StarTAC in 1996.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Motorola MicroTAC” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.