Although the first mobile phones resembled bricks and weighed 88 pounds, no one could have predicted that in the next 70 ...

While most of us have moved on from the cellphones of the early 2000s, anyone who might have kept their older models could be ...

Motorola engineer Martin Cooper made the world's first mobile phone call with a prototype that weighed nearly 2 kg and took ...

The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X released in 1983 was a significant milestone in the history of mobile telecommunications as the first commercially available handheld cellular phone. The DynaTAC 8000X ...

Martin Cooper, a Motorola engineer made the first cell phone call in history from a sidewalk on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan ...

But then, in 1973, Motorola engineer Martin Cooper showed what the future would look like: the DynaTAC 8000X. Based on Bell's cell network concept, it was the world's first handheld cell phone.

In 1983, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved Motorola's DynaTAC 8000X telephone, which was then the world's first commercially available cellular device. "Bob was a visionary ...