"50 Years of Mobile Phones: From Invention to Disrupter"
TL;DR
Martin Cooper, an engineer at Motorola, made the first public call from a cell phone to Joel Engel, head of AT&T-owned Bell Labs, on April 3, 1973. While cell phones would not be available to the average consumer for another decade, Cooper's bulky device has evolved and been replaced by a wide range of thinner, faster phones that are now ubiquitous and reshaping industries, culture, and the way we relate to one another and ourselves. Today, 97% of Americans own a cell phone of some kind.
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