Motorola Moments

In 1960, we launched the 19-inch Motorola Astronaut television – the world’s first large-screen transistorized, portable cordless television.

A Motorola radio receiver on board American astronaut John Glenn’s Mercury spacecraft received signals from Earth in 1962.

On July 20th, 1969, Neil Armstrong’s “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” could be heard using one of our transponders.

On April 3, 1973, Motorola publicly demonstrated the world’s first portable cellular telephone system using Motorola DynaTAC (DYNamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage) in New York City.

Further expansion into South America led to Motorola producing pagers, mobile handsets and other wireless equipment at its Jaguariúna Industrial and Technological Campus in São Paulo, Brazil.

Motorola supplied equipment for India’s first GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) cellular network in the city of Mumbai in 2002.

In 2007, mountaineer Rod Baber used a Motorola MOTORIZR Z8 cellular phone on the highest peak of Mount Everest to make the highest-ever land-based portable phone call and text message. The call was made from Everest’s north ridge, at an altitude of 29,035 feet.

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