On This Day In 1973: Martin Cooper Makes The First Mobile Phone Call

 

Cooper invented the first cell phone in 1973.
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On This Day In 1973, Martin Cooper made the world's first mobile phone call in Manhattan from the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x. after he assembled a team to help create it.

Cooper dialed the number of his Joel S. Engel, his main competitor from AT &T. He would say "Joel, this is Marty. I'm calling you from a cell phone, a real handheld portable cell phone." 

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