{"id":15842,"date":"2023-01-03T15:12:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T15:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/motorola-startac-introduced\/"},"modified":"2023-01-03T15:12:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T15:12:21","slug":"motorola-startac-introduced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/motorola-startac-introduced\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorola StarTAC Introduced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/motorola_startac.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[4163]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4164\" alt=\"motorola_startac\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/09b86__motorola_startac-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/motorola_startac-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/motorola_startac.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>January 3, 1996<\/p>\n<p>Motorola introduces the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Motorola_StarTAC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">StarTAC<\/a>, the first clamshell flip cell phone. The smallest and lightest cell phone available at the time, the StarTAC&#8217;s &#8220;wearability&#8221; made it one of the first cell phones to achieve mainstream popularity. About 60 million StarTAC phones were sold over the series&#8217; lifetime, becoming the stereotype for what most people refer to as &#8220;flip phones,&#8221; even to this day.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/03\/motorola-startac-introduced\/\">Motorola StarTAC Introduced<\/a> is original content of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/03\/motorola-startac-introduced\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 3, 1996 Motorola introduces the StarTAC, the first clamshell flip cell phone. The smallest and lightest cell phone available at the time, the StarTAC&#8217;s &#8220;wearability&#8221; made it one of the first cell phones to achieve mainstream popularity. About 60 million StarTAC phones were sold over the series&#8217; lifetime, becoming the stereotype for what most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[926,4191,4439],"class_list":["post-15842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-introduced","tag-motorola","tag-startac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}