{"id":3752,"date":"2013-04-03T19:27:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T13:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vividtimes.com\/?p=3752"},"modified":"2014-04-18T16:09:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T10:39:09","slug":"mobile-phone-turns-40-years-old-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vividtimes.com\/mobile-phone-turns-40-years-old-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Phone turns 40 years old today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vividtimes.com\/mobile-phone-turns-40-years-old-today\/marty_cooper\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3753\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3753\" alt=\"marty_cooper\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vividtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/marty_cooper.jpg?resize=600%2C359\" width=\"600\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vividtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/marty_cooper.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vividtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/marty_cooper.jpg?resize=150%2C90&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vividtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/marty_cooper.jpg?resize=335%2C200&amp;ssl=1 335w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On April 3rd, 1973 &#8211; 40 years from today, The first Mobile Phone call made by Marty Cooper a employee of Motorola Company.<\/p>\n<p>Motorola engineer Marty Cooper placed the first public call from a cellphone. In midtown Manhattan, Cooper called Joel Engel \u2014 head of rival research department Bell Labs \u2014 saying &#8220;Joel, this is Marty. I&#8217;m calling you from a cell phone, a real handheld portable cell phone.&#8221; The call was placed on a Motorola DynaTAC 8000x, which weighed 2.5 pounds, a far cry from today&#8217;s 4-ounce handsets.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Cooper, is now 85-years-old and is called the &#8220;father&#8221; of the cellphone. The first cellphones to hit the market, in 1983, were priced at a colossal $3,500. Cooper felt that the cost and the huge size of the phones, would stop the them being further developed for the mass market. 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