History Of The Cell Phone (1973 to 2024) - Practically Networked
Jan 11, 2024 · 1973 – The Very First Cell Phone. Motorola developed the first portable cell phone in 1973. The hand-held device was shaped like a brick and weighed around 2.4 pounds. It was called the DynaTAC 8000X and is considered as the original cell phone.
History of mobile phones - Wikipedia
The history of mobile phones covers mobile communication devices that connect wirelessly to the public switched telephone network. While the transmission of speech by signal has a long history, the first devices that were wireless, mobile, and also capable of connecting to the standard telephone network are much more recent.
The History Behind the Invention of the First Cell Phone
With encouragement from his boss, Motorola’s chief of portable communication products, John Mitchell, Cooper, and the engineers at Motorola produced the working prototype for the first cell phone.
The history of cell phones: A decade-by-decade timeline
Sep 16, 2024 · The first phone went on sale for nearly $4,000 in 1983. Here's a brief history of the cell phone industry and how it has evolved over time.
Martin Cooper | Biography, Inventions, & Facts | Britannica
Martin Cooper, American engineer who led the team that in 1972–73 built the first mobile cell phone, the DynaTAC (Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage), and made the first cell phone call, on April 3, 1973. He is widely regarded as the father of the cellular phone.
Martin Cooper (inventor) - Wikipedia
On April 3, 1973, he placed the first public call from a handheld portable cell phone while working at Motorola, from a Manhattan sidewalk to his counterpart at competitor Bell Labs.
50 years ago, Martin Cooper made the first cellphone call
On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper made the first ever cellphone call on the streets of New York. His invention, a brick-sized device, became the first cellphone available to the general...
From 'the Brick' to the iPhone, the Cellphone Celebrates 50 ...
Apr 3, 2023 · Though Cooper is hailed as the inventor of the modern cellphone, the device’s history began much earlier. “Whoever was first, there’s always somebody who was more first,” Hal Wallace, curator of...
50 years ago, he made the first cell phone call | CNN Business
Apr 4, 2023 · On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper stood on a sidewalk on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan with a device the size of a brick and made the first public call from a cell phone to one of the men he’d...
Mobile phone inventor made first call 50 years ago - BBC News
Apr 3, 2023 · Mr Cooper, an engineer at Motorola, rang his counterpart at rival firm Bell Laboratories, to triumphantly tell him he was calling from "a personal, handheld, portable cell phone".