Motorola Tough Talker

The Motorola Tough Talker was a series of durable, transportable cellular phones produced from 1987 to 1993.
Description
Motorola Introduced the Tough Talker in 1987, as a transportable version of Motorola’s DynaTAC car phones. These phones were aimed at construction workers, truckers, boaters, and people in rural areas. The Tough Talker was a far more rugged and powerful (3-watts versus 0.6-watts) than Motorola’s DynaTAC and MicroTAC handheld phones.
The Tough Talker is a modular phone which consists of three main pieces: the handset, transceiver, and the main body. The main body contains a very large and heavy 12V 4.0ah sealed lead-acid battery. The Tough Talker had a unique mechanical battery gauge, which could be activated by pressing a button located to the top-left of the gauge.
Because the Tough Talker uses the exact same transceivers as Motorola’s car phones of the time, a car phone could be easily converted to a Tough Talker or vice-versa.
Technology
All Motorola Tough Talker phones operated on AMPS, which was decommissioned in 2008, so these phones cannot be used for calls anymore, and are now only collector’s items.

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