Mobile phone inventor made first call 50 years ago

Marty Cooper, who made the first mobile phone call in 1973, says modern devices are "suboptimal".

Martin Cooper, who is credited with inventing the first mobile phone, made the world's first handheld cellular call 50 years ago on April 3, 1973. Cooper, who was working for Motorola at the time, made the call on a prototype of the company's DynaTAC phone, which weighed almost 1 kg and cost around $4,000. The call was made to Cooper's rival, Joel Engel, who was also working on developing mobile phone technology. The first commercial cellular network was launched in the US in 1983, and since then, mobile phones have become ubiquitous around the world, revolutionizing the way we communicate and access information.

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