when was mobiles invented
The first mobile phone call was made by Martin Cooper on April 3, 1973. It was a Motorola DynaTAC (DYNamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage) prototype. The call lasted for about one minute before it cut off and he had to find a new telephone booth Martin Cooper made the mobile phone call from the street in New York City to Bell Labs in nearby Holmdel Township, New Jersey. This was just after 4:00 pm EDT on April 3, 1973. The call took place at a time when the world had only 330,000 mobile phones in use. The device that Mr Cooper used was called a DynaTAC ("Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage"). The device weighed 2.25 pounds (1 kg). It had a flip-up antenna for local calls and For international calls, it had three-way DTMF touch-tone dialing. Callers would punch in digits 468 for New York, WAL for Washington DC and 555-1212 for Bell Labs (the area code was 302). Image source: https://www.amazon.com/ The DynaTAC's call is thought to be the world's first usin