On This Day in Telephone History April 3RD 1973 The first handheld mobile phone call was placed by Marty Cooper on a prototype of the DynaTac 8000x. The call was to Bell Labs’ Head of Research, Joel Engel. 10 years later, the DynaTac 8000x would become the first such phone to be commercially released.

On This Day in Telephone History April 3RD 1973

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On This Day in Telephone History April 3RD 1973 The First Handheld Mobile Phone Call was placed by Marty Cooper on a DynaTac 8000x

The call was to Bell Labs’ Head of Research, Joel Engel. 10 years later, the DynaTac 8000x would become the first such phone to be commercially released.