The first cell phone call 1973 #firstcellphone

On April 3, 1973, just before a press conference in Manhattan where he would unveil the groundbreaking device that would change the way we communicate, Cooper conducted a test. He made the very first public cellular phone call in history.

Martin Cooper stood on a Manhattan sidewalk with a device as large as a brick. From there, he dialed the first-ever public call to one of the head of AT&T and said : “

“I’m calling you on a cell phone, but a real cell phone, a personal, handheld, portable cell phone,

Getting ahead of AT&T was an huge achievement for the emerging company, Motorola. They had challenged a firm that, at that point, almost held a monopoly over the American telephone systems.

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