The first cell phone successfully made was completed 50 years ago today.
"I'm calling you on a cell phone, but a real cell phone, a personal, handheld, portable cell phone," Cooper, then an engineer at Motorola, said on the phone to Joel Engel, head ofOn 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 been competing with to develop the device.
"I was not surprised that everybody has a cell phone," Cooper, now 94, told CNN. "We used to tell the story then that someday when you're born you would be assigned a phone number. If you didn't answer the phone, you would die."For months before that first call, Motorola was racing to build a cell phone against Bell Labs, the legendary research arm of AT"They were the biggest company in the world, and we were a little company in Chicago," Cooper recalled.
Compare that to the iPhone 14, which weighs 6 ounces and is just under six inches, or to any number of Android budget smartphones that cost $200-$300.It wasn't until the 1990s that the modern cell phone took off, as it shrunk way down in size and became much more user friendly. Today, 97% of Americans own a cell phone of some kind, according to a 2021 study by Pew Research Center.
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