The first hand-held cell phone call occurred on April 3, 1973, when Motorola’s Martin Cooper called Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
A far cry from today’s popular mobile devices, the phone Cooper called from weighed more than two pounds, permitted 30 minutes of talk time and took 10 hours to charge.
Despite the breakthrough, 10 more years passed until a similar phone was commercially released.
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This Day in History: Inventor of cell phone makes first hand-held call on clunky prototype
April 1, 2012
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