Today in 1973, Martin Cooper made the first mobile phone call, using an early model of Motorola’s DynaTAC phone, a phone weighing 2.5 pounds, measuring 9 inches long and 5 inches deep, and featuring about 20 minutes of battery life.
Megan Garber in The Atlantic:
Telephones, at that point, were not things you coul…
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