An April Fool’s joke 36 years in the making.

In 1983, Verizon powered the first mobile call using a Motorola phone. In 2019, a Motorola phone was the first to use our 5G network. And it became available on…April Fools’ Day. To drive traffic to our site for the phone launch we took advantage of the timing and announced that the original 1983 brick phone was back for a limited time.