General Information

Serial #

82E375DA

Part Number

1

Total Parts

3

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Light grey plastic, black plastic digital display, rubber antenna and sides of phone and metal.

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

15.5 cm

Width

6.0 cm

Height

4.0 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Communications

Category

Radio

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Motorola

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

City

Unknown

Context

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

Period

Unknown

Canada

This cellular phone is part of a small collection of early mobile phone equipment donated to the Museum in 2008. The March 2012 Info Telecom newsletter featuring an article written by the donor, briefly describes his connection with the objects: "Louis Houbart is a wireless technology consultant who has worked in the field for the past 32 years. He has been a professional trainer since 1988 and has developed and given many courses and workshops on the subject. Louis is a member of the Community of Telecommunications Consultants."

Function

To make and receive phone calls via cellular network.

Technical

This cellular phone belongs to Motorola's MicroTAC family of hones. Motorola's earliest cellular phones, the DynaTAC series, were succeeded by the MicroTAC line in the late 1980's. While the early models introduced as of 1989 were analogue, TDMA and GSM models were produced starting in 1994. The Micro Digital Lite is on the earlier TDMA models from 1994. With a new design in which the mouthpiece panel opened and laid closed over the keypad, Motorola pioneered the design of the flip phone, setting a new standard which all cellular phones were modeled on for over a decade. (continues in notes)

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

Mfr's on front of the mouthpiece flip; "[trademark logo] MOTOROLA Digital Cellular". front of the phone: " MICRO DIGITAL LITE IU/NS/Rm/ [trademark logo] MOTOROLA". inside of the mouthpiece flip: "[trademark logo] MOTOROLA/ DIGITAL CELLULAR/ PERSONAL COMMUNICATOR". back of the phone: "82E375DA/8UF1252 164G2/mini operators manual".

Missing

Nothing is missing.

Finish

Plastic casing, a rubber antenna and side rubber buttons, a plastic digital screen, a white and black keypad and metal connectors.

Decoration

Alphanumeric keypad with push buttons in white with black numbering and in lower case beside each number starting at the two we have the first three letters of the alphabet and so forth. The bottom push buttons have written on them Rcl, Clr, Sto,FCN, End Pwr, NAME MENU and the one red button with Snd. The casing is light grey with a black plastic digital display screen, brass connectors, right side black rubber grip, left side black rubber with buttons and the black rubber antenna on the top.