&quot;Consider the MicroTAC, one of Motorola’s first cell phones. It did not sell well.&quot;<p>It was nothing to do with the MicroTAC being £3,000?  No, it was the direction of the flip.  Right.<p>The later MicroTACs with LCD sold loads.  At the time, most people seemed to <i>prefer</i> them to the early StarTAC.