Just two years later, Motorola’s first cell phone would resemble the shape that would dominate the industry during the 1990s and 2000s. The MicroTAC 9800X that Motorola released in 1989 was much lighter and more manageable than anything else out there. A forerunner of clamshell telephones, it was 23 centimeters long with the lid open and, above all, weighed only 350 grams. Its cost was $2,000, (less than $5,000 today) and its success led Motorola to continue releasing MicroTAC models until 1998.