First cellular phone
- Quem
- Unknown
- Resultado
- First
- Onde
- United States (New Jersey)
- Quando
- 03 April 1973
The concept of a portable telephone first appeared in 1947 at Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs, New Jersey, USA. The first actual portable telephone handset was invented by Martin Cooper (USA), of Motorola, who made the first call on 3 April 1973 to his rival, Joel Engel, head of research at Bell Labs. The first commercial mobile phone network was launched in Japan in 1979.