Who invented the cell phone?
If you want to know who was the first who got the idea of creating a cellular phone the answer is the American Telephone & Telegraph which is no other than AT&T from the United States, which was the world’s largest telephone company and the world’s largest cable television operator, with $300 billion dollars revenue. It was purchased by Baby Bell SBC Communications in 2005. In April 1973, Dr Martin Cooper, former general manager for the systems division at Motorola, invented the mobile phone prototype and made the first call to Joel Engel, his rival, head of research at Bell Labs. Copper was a project manager at Motorola and the world’s first mobile phone was Motorola Dyna-Tac, a 2.5 pounds handset measuring 9 x 5 x 1.75 inches, featuring 30 circuit boards, 35 minutes talk time, 10 hours recharge time, and having just three functionalities: dial, talk and listen. He, together with his colleagues, published the patent for the world’s first portable duplex radio telephone system. AT&T’s
It’s the darnedest thing. We were all doing just fine before cell phones came along. But now that they’re here, nobody can live without them. So who do we have to thank/blame for the indispensable lump of plastic that costs us $50 a month? A chap named Martin Cooper. Cooper developed the cell phone in 1973 while working for Motorola. Naturally, he had the honor of making the world’s first cell phone call. From a busy New York sidewalk, Cooper called his rival at Bell Laboratories and said, “Joe, I’m calling you from a real portable cellular telephone.” Cooper says he thought he heard teeth gnashing in the background. Of course, the first cell phone looked a lot different than the fancy flip phones of today. And cell phones didn
