On April 3, 1973, an engineer at the US firm Motorola makes the first call from a mobile device, dubbed DynaTAC. Today we are looking at the history of the device that changed the world
South Korean tech giant Samsung is a major player in the mobile phone market.
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From brick-sized handsets popular with stockbrokers to intensely powerful computers that sit in all our pockets today, mobile phones have been forged by a half-century of innovation.
Martin Cooper calls Joel Engel, a competitor working for Bell Labs, from 6th Avenue in New York.
But it takes a further 10 years for the first mobile to be marketed.
In 1983, Motorola starts selling the DynaTAC 8000X in the United States for a cool $3,995.