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The first cell phone was created by Martin Cooper and his team at Motorola. The prototype, known as the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X , was the first handheld cellular phone. Cooper made the first publicized handheld cellular phone call on a prototype DynaTAC model on April 3, 1973.
On April 3, 1973, Motorola engineer, Martin Cooper, rang his rival, Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, from the first cell phone. The world had just witnessed its first mobile phone call. Later that day, Martin Cooper and his colleagues went to a news conference and revolutionized communication technology. Motorola’s cell phone was called DynaTAC 8000X.
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.
In 1973, Motorola, a telecommunications company founded in 1928, made history when it created the world's first cell phone. Motorola engineer Martin Cooper created this revolutionary device called the DynaTAC 8000X. The DynaTAC 8000X weighed over a kilogram and had a length of over nine inches.
On April 3, 1973, Motorola employee Martin Cooper made a very consequential phone call. Dialing up AT&T’s Joel Engel from midtown Manhattan, Cooper informed Engel that Motorola had beaten AT&T to the punch on a new project they’d both been trying to develop: The world’s very first cell phone.
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.
On April 3, 1973, Motorola engineer Martin Cooper made the first-ever cell phone call on the DynaTAC 8000X. The prototype he used weighed 2.4 lb (1.1 kg) and measured 9.1 x 5.1 x 1.8 in (23 x 13 x 4.5 cm).