The First Cell Phone

Martin Cooper is considered to be the inventor of the first cell phone. He was manager at the Motorola Company. He was the one that made the first call from a cell phone back in the year 1973. Dyna TAC 8000X was the first commercial mobile phone in the world.

Motorola showed off a prototype of the world's first portable cellular telephone on April 3, 1973, at a public demonstration and using a heavy 30-ounce phone, Martin Cooper placed the first cell phone call to his rival at AT&T Bell Labs from the streets of New York City.

Martin Cooper started the 10-year process of bringing the portable cell phone to market. In 1983 the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X received approval from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and become the world's first commercial handheld cellular phone. When it was made available for purchase just a few months later on March 6 1983 it ignited a demand for personal wireless communication.

Motorola's DynaTAC 'Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage' let you talk for 30 minutes, could go a full eight hours between charges, was 13 x 1.75 x 3.5 inches in dimension, boasted eight hours of standby time, took 10 hours to recharge, featured an LED display and memory to store thirty dialling locations. The price was some $3,995 in 1983 dollars.