Showing posts with label Cell phone. Show all posts
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

First Mobile Phone Call Was Placed Exactly 40 Years Ago

Hello world! 
Today is exactly the same day when a mobile phone cell was placed by Motorola. With inputs from With inputs from Stan Schroeder, Mashable, do read the following piece of article. 
On April 3, 1973 — exactly 40 years from today — Motorola employee Marty Cooper made the first mobile phone call.
Marty used a Motorola DynaTAC to call Bell Labs (then a division of AT&T), reportedly saying "I'm ringing you just to see if my call sounds good at your end."
The device that Marty used to place the call was a prototype which would later become the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x. It was the first commercially available mobile phone, and despite its meager specs for today's standards — it weighed 2.5 pounds and only had a one-line, text-only LED display — it cost a whopping $3,995.
The DynaTAC phone can be seen in action in several Hollywood films, including "Wall Street," where Gordon Gekko uses it to place a call from the beach, and "American Psycho," with Patrick Bateman using it to place a fake dinner reservation call.