>> when these things started to pop up in the mid 1980s, the customers were people who had a business reason for having these things or a super rich dude who just wanted to show off. the big break through idea was the idea of cellular systems. >> it's called cellular because your telephone is tied in to different ansmitters, called a cell, and as you travel, the signal travels from cell to cell. if you don't have one you probably will have one in a decade say the makers. >> there were people who understood even in the early days that being trapped in a car was not freedom. people are fundamentally, naturally, mobile. >> i like to say the technology will go from a phone in the car to a phone in the briefcase to finally a phone in your pocket. >> and this is it. this is a portable cellular phone. you will be able to take this to any american city and call virtually any place in the world, and its maker, motorola says a smaller version than this