My first mobile phone was a Motorola bag phone, which laid on the console and had had a coax wire going to an external antenna magnetically mounted on the trunk lid. It of course was analog, since this was back in 1997. The phone did have excellent range, but you had to be careful not to go into roaming or go over your minutes, only had 30, and everything counted, incoming calls and there were no free times, only 911 calls were free, except for calls to the provider. The phone was heavy, had a power cord going to the cigarette lighter and a corded handset, which was about 2 feet long, coiled like a landline, I think they tried to make it look like a landline inside your car.