Exactly 50 years ago, on April 3, 1973, the world made the first mobile phone call. Portal reports TRT World.
The call came from Motorola engineer Martin Cooper, who called Joel Angel of AT&T Bell Laboratories, who triumphantly announced that he was using a “personal, handheld, portable phone.” The device Cooper was looking for was a Motorola DynaTAC phone that weighed almost 800 grams.
It took 10 hours to fully charge and the battery lasted 12 hours in standby mode. At that time there was no mention of SMS messages – the gadget can only make and receive calls.
The Motorola Dynatac 8000X, a commercial version of Martin Cooper’s prototype, was launched 11 years after the historic bell in 1984. According to Ben Wood, director of the Museum of Mobile Phones, if you recalculate its cost taking into account the current exchange rate, it costs the buyer 11.7 thousand dollars (about 900 thousand rubles).
Formerly socialbites.ca we talked about itthat an unusual version of the first iPhone is up for auction.