Technology, Marty Cooper | featured news

Brick-Sized Cellphone Celebrates 40th

Justin Bieber’s phone may never ring and texting and messaging may have started to take the place of voice calls, but back on April 4, 1973 a man named Marty Cooper wasn’t taking the voice call feature on the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x for granted. On that day, 40 years ago, Cooper, who was a Motorola engineer, placed the first public call from a cellphone.

 

Subscribe to this RSS topic: Syndicate content