Handheld mobile phone (Motorola DynaTAC)
Teléfono móvil portátil (Motorola DynaTAC)
- Date
- 1973 · confidence high
- Place
- Motorola, New York (first call, 3 April 1973), United States
- Credited to
- Martin Cooper (Motorola); commercialised in 1983
- People
- 👤 Martin Cooper1928–
- Field
- Communication
What it is
The first handheld cellular telephone, weighing one kilogram with half an hour of battery life, which made its first call on a Manhattan pavement. It brought telephony to the person rather than the place.
The cellular network concept came from Bell Labs (Douglas Ring, 1947); the first commercial network was NTT's in Tokyo (1979).
What it led to
- Commercial cellular networks (1G) and personal telephony
- The culture of permanent availability
- The smartphone as humanity's principal computer
Built on
- Microprocessor (Intel 4004)1971
- Bell Labs cellular concept (1947)
- car radiotelephone