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Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first mobile telephone call from handheld subscriber equipment, placing a call to Dr. Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, his rival.
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1.Create a contact list by gathering up phone numbers of people you want to talk to. ...
2.Make calls by choosing or dialing a number and pushing the "send" or "call" button. ...
3.Set up your voicemail box. ...
4.Text your contacts. ...
5.Lock your keypad or smartphone to secure it from pocket dials or thefts. -
Forty years ago this month, Motorola engineer Martin Cooper changed the world by making the world's first cell phone call. 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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On September 21, 1983, Motorola made history when the FCC approved the 8000X, the world's first commercial portable cell phone.
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Somewhere in either Chicago, Baltimore or Washington, someone plunked down $3,995 to buy the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, the first handheld cellphone, on March 13, 1984 — 30 years ago today. We don't know who that first cellphone buyer was.
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- In 1996, mobile phones became a little more defined and better looking than how they were before. Antennas were shortened and the designs modified; the features were also upgraded. The above image shows Nokia 9000 which was one of the most popular phones of that time.
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There's a strong argument that the first real camera phone was produced by Sharp and released in Japan by J-Phone (now SoftBank Mobile) in November of 2000. The J-SH04 could take photos, like the one on the right (from Japanese site Showcase) at 110,000-pixel resolution or 0.11-megapixels.Aug 11, 2013
