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The First Mobile Phone Call
Call someone, just to talk.
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Where it comes from
This Story marks the anniversary of 3 April 1973, when Martin Cooper, an engineer at Motorola, stood on Sixth Avenue in New York, next to the Hilton hotel, and made the first public call from a handheld mobile phone. Motorola was racing Bell Labs, which saw car phones as the future.
How it's celebrated
There is no formal observance, but newspapers, broadcasters and technology museums look back on the call, as they did with big features for its fiftieth anniversary in 2023.
Did you know
Cooper's prototype, nicknamed 'the brick', weighed about 2.5 pounds (1.1 kg) and was about ten inches tall.
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