The Verge recounts that Cooper made the call from midtown Manhattan, adding: “The call was placed on a Motorola DynaTAC 8000x, which weighed 2.5 pounds, a far cry from today’s 4-ounce handsets.”
The cellphone is 40 years old today [The Verge]
“I'm calling you from a cell phone, a real handheld portable cell phone.”— Motorola's Martin Cooper to Bell Labs rival Joel Engel on April 3, 1973.
