While Canadians are celebrating Thanksgiving, the Wireless History Foundation is hosting a dinner in Chicago this evening, marking the 25th anniversary of the first cellular mobile phone call which was made October 13, 1983 down the road at Soldier Field.We have come a long way since the days of phones mounted in the trunks of our cars, evolving into phones carried in a shoulder bag.And let's not forget that major leap forward with the development of the classic Motorola brick-phone - the DynaTAC 8000X - which was just 3 weeks earlier, on September 21, 1983. That phone, weighing in at 28 ounces, seemed nearly indestructible. I recall magazine ads in the 80's that celebrated its ability to survive fire and water damage which sure beats the heck out of today's phones (which frequent readers of mine know just don't ).Andrew Seybold made an interesting when reflecting on the first 25 years of cellular service:
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