The first call by cell phone was made 50 years ago
An engineer at Motorola in the United States made a phone call 50 years ago, on April 3, 1973, that ushered in a new era for humanity.
This engineer was Martin Cooper, who developed the Motorola DynaTac 8000X, the first commercial cell phone produced.
He will be the first U.S. president to appear before a judge.
Moreover, the first person Cooper called was Joel Engel, an engineer at a rival firm that was also trying to develop the world’s first portable phone.
Joel Engel, an American engineer who worked on NASA’s Apollo program, had contributed to the development of on-board phones at Bell Laboratories that allowed calling on the go.
By 1973, the team led by Engel was working on developing the first portable mobile phones.
But on April 3, that phone rang, to Engel’s frustration. Calling the landline in Engel’s lab, Cooper said on the end of the phone, «Joel, I’m calling you on a cell phone. A real cell phone.» said.
Engel’s reply was a long silence.
The phone in Cooper’s hand, with which he made the world’s first cell phone call, weighed about a kilo. And for a 30-minute call, it needed 10 hours of charging.
His invention is used by more than 68 percent of the world’s population today, half a century later.
According to the Digital Global Summary Report 2023, cell phone owners spend an average of 5 hours a day with it.
No one could have foreseen that the mobile phone with which he made his first call would take its present form with all its functions.
According to the news of Gizem Sade from Euronews, even Cooper says he can’t even imagine that these devices will be equipped with digital cameras or the internet in the future. But he predicted that everyone would have a cell phone.
Half a century later, mobile phones evolved into sophisticated smartphones, devices powerful enough to be used as computers. 92.3 percent of existing mobile phones can access the internet.
According to Fernando Suarez, President of the Spanish Association of Computer Engineers, this invention has become «one of humanity’s greatest revolutions because of the change it has brought to our lives.»
Suarez says it took almost 65 years for the traditional landline phone to reach 100 million users, while the mobile phone didn’t even take 50 years to reach 6 billion users.
According to the Digital Global Summary Report 2023, mobile phone usage is increasing every year and a total of 5.44 billion people own a mobile phone.
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The first commercial cell phone was developed by Martin Cooper, an engineer at Motorola, who made the world’s first cell phone call 50 years ago on April 3, 1973. Joel Engel, an engineer at a rival firm, was the recipient of the call. The device, called the Motorola DynaTac 8000X, weighed about a kilo and needed 10 hours of charging for a 30-minute call. Today, more than 68 percent of the world’s population uses mobile phones, with owners spending an average of 5 hours a day on them, according to the Digital Global Summary Report 2023. The mobile phone took less than 50 years to reach 6 billion users, compared with almost 65 years for the traditional landline phone to reach 100 million users.
