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On 3 April 1973, Marty Cooper stood on a corner of Sixth Avenue in New York and took a phone book from his pocket. He then punched a number into a large, cream-coloured device and put it to his ...
It was 1973 when Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher, made the first mobile phone call to his rival. The prototype weighed 2 kilograms and measured 23 by 13 by 4.5 centimetres.
The first mobile phone call was made 40 years ago today, on 3 April 1973. Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival colleague at another telecoms company and announced he was ...
The year was 1973. Joel Engel, an American engineer who had worked on Nasa's Apollo programme, was leading an effort to create the world's first handheld mobile phone.
The first mobile phone call was made 40 years ago today, on 3 April 1973. Marty Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival colleague at another telecoms company and announced he was ...
IBM Simon Personal Communicator was the forerunner of the modern smartphone. Never judge a phone by its cover. This chunky, black box was in fact the world's first 'smartphone'. The IBM Simon went ...
Older technologies started in similar fashion. Martin Cooper is the man credited with making the world's first call from a truly portable mobile phone, from a New York pavement on 3 April 1973.
On 11 August 1973, a 'back to school jam' in New York's West Bronx kick-started a movement and birthed a whole culture, writes Rebecca Laurence.
Michael Harrison has recalled making history 30 years ago on New Year's Eve, when he left a family party to make Britain's first mobile phone call.
Smartphones have become near-universal among children, with up to 91% of 11-year-olds owning one. But do children miss out without a phone – or experience surprising benefits?