It was 40 years ago today that Martin Cooper, an employee at Motorola, made the first ever cell phone call from the streets of Manhattan. Cooper used the Motorola DynaTAC to dial his rival, Joel Engel, the Bell Laboratories research chief. The cell phone Cooper had helped create was ten-inches tall and weighed two and a half pounds. It would be ten years before Motorola’s DynaTAC hit the market, costing $3500 in 1983.
While mobile phone technology has greatly improved during the last 40 years, the mobile Internet is still relatively new. With the first iPhone in 2007, followed by the first Android phone in 2008, the Web browsing experience dramatically increased, starting a new chapter for the mobile Internet.
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Martin Cooper with a collection of the first mobile phones he helped invent
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