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The first cellphone I bought was a Motorola Alpha https://www.mobilecollectors.net/phone/3802/motorola-microtac+alpha https://www.mobilecollectors.net/phone/3802/motorola-microta... I thought it was odd - and a bit misleading that it had the words "Digital Personal Communicator" on the box. I knew it couldn't communicate digitally but it did get me to imagine what that would be like. I assume digital referred to the storage of phone numbers + names which was a novel feature at the time. The display wasn't seven segment LED like previous versions, it had low-res green dot matrix LED arrays that could display a few crude alphanumeric characeters.