We're not past this 52-year cell-by date
Motorola engineer Martin Cooper made the first mobile phone call in the world with the words: 'Joel, this is Marty. I'm calling you from a cell phone, a real handheld portable cell phone.' Cooper had called his chief competitor Joel Engel at Bell Labs to essentially taunt him from a Manhattan footpath in front of reporters.
'DynaTAC', that chunky, more-brick, less-iPhone ancestor, was developed by the now-96-yr-old Marty who, even then, realised what he had unleashed. He brought a redeveloped model into the market in 1983, and the rest, as they say, is this thing in your hand.
The phone itself was a marvel.
It was — don't wait for it now, but in 1973… — cordless! Weighing in at nearly 2 kg (Cooper was then a sprightly 45-yr-old), this prototype could make calls and… well, that's it. No apps, no camera, no snake game, no WhatsApp University.
Just raw, unadulterated mouth-to-ear communication. It took 10 hrs to charge for 30 mins of talk time.
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