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When Was the First Mobile Phone Call Made?
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Quick Answer
Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first handheld mobile phone call on 3 April 1973.
The Full Story
On 3 April 1973, Motorola engineer Martin Cooper stood on a New York City street and called rival Joel Engel at Bell Labs using a prototype DynaTAC handset. The phone weighed about 1.1 kg and offered roughly 30 minutes of talk time. It took another decade before the commercial DynaTAC 8000X launched in 1983 at a price of nearly $4,000. Today there are more than 5 billion unique mobile subscribers worldwide.
Key Facts
1.The prototype DynaTAC took 10 hours to recharge for 30 minutes of talk time.
2.The first commercial mobile phone cost about $4,000 in 1983 dollars.
3.Mobile subscriptions surpassed the world population count in 2018.
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"Martin Cooper's Historic Call — The Birth of the Mobile Phone"