Written by I Just wanted to take the time to recognize the anniversary of the first cell phone call. It was 35 years ago that Martin Cooper made the first cell phone call to his rival Bell Labs.
The phone he used was the big and ugly Motorola DynaTAC. This phone was 9 inches tall, weighed 2½ pounds, and had 30 circuit boards. With 10 hours of charge time you could talk for a whopping 30 minutes. Nonetheless, Cooper made history with that ugly brick-like phone, on a New York street corner in 1973.
