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Martin Cooper (inventor) Inventing handheld cellular mobile phone Making world's first handheld cellular mobile phone call.
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Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first mobile telephone call from handheld subscriber equipment
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He stood on a New York City street on April 3, 1973, with a 10-inch-long, 2.5-pound phone nicknamed “the brick” and called his engineering nemesis at the much bigger Bell Labs
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He was the first person to make a mobile phone call.
The cell phone goes public. -
Motorola made history when the FCC approved the 8000X, the world's first commercial portable cell phone.
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The above image shows Nokia 9000 which was one of the most popular phones of that time.