Today is the 35th anniversary of the first mobile phone call. On April 3rd, 1973 Dr. Martin Cooper, Motorola's Corporate Director of R&D and patent holder for the "Radio Telephone System", used the DynaTAC handset to make the first ever portable phone call. Who did he call? Joel Engel, Head of Research at Bell Labs and his rival in the field, to let him know he was too late! I'm not sure I could've resisted making that call in his place. Martin Cooper holds a Motorola DynaTAC (for DYNamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage), a 1973 prototype of the first...
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