when did the first motorola flip phone come out
Motorola StarTAC The Motorola StarTAC is a clamshell mobile phone manufactured by Motorola. It was released on January 3, 1996, being the first ever clamshell/flip mobile phone.[2] The StarTAC is the successor of the MicroTAC, a semi-clamshell design that had been launched in 1989.[3] Whereas the MicroTAC's shell folded down from below the keypad, the StarTAC folded up from above the display. In 2005, PC World put StarTAC at #6 in The 50 Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years.[2]