While Cell Phones were not popular tech, how were car phones able to be so seemingly widespread? What makes the differences in technology between the two?

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Perhaps my interpretation of this is wrong, but it seems like car phones were much more widespread and easily accessible to most members of the public as opposed to Cellular Phones which were almost exclusively for the very wealthy/businesspeople etc. Is there a difference in the tech that made this so? How does a car phone work, if its different than how a cell phone works? TIA

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The car phone is actually about the size of shoebox, but most of it is hidden in the trunk or under the seat. It was the miniaturization of handhelds that made them so expensive.