It’s a day late, but I couldn’t get a signal.
On 3 April 1973 when Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first mobile telephone call from handheld subscriber equipment, placing a call to Dr. Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.[1][2] The prototype handheld phone used by Dr. Cooper weighed 1.1 kg and measured 22.86 cm long, 12.7 cm deep and 4.44 cm wide.. The prototype offered a talk time of just 30 minutes and took 10 hours to re-charge.[3]
My first cellphone was the Uniden bag phone that was in the Pontiac, mounted on the floor between the front seats. I still have it, keeping it as a part of the car’s historic preservation.
Since then I’ve progressed, so to speak, to a Samsung phone with a slide-out keyboard so I can text. I have yet to try or even consider a smartphone.
So, what was your first cellphone and when did you get it? Or are you still wired in?
HT to NTodd.
I had a bag phone.
My first “portable” was a Technophone, hardwired in my car. It was a gift from a very clueless family member or I’d never have had one: at the time it was more expense than it was worth.
I’ve never owned one and will not have one in the future. Cell phones are the death of western civilization.
I just got my first cell phone two weeks ago thanks to Russ and the US gov’t. It doesn’t have a camera and I have used it just 4 or 5 times. I have contacts programmed in and all of that. Have talked to my doctor more than anyone. Brand name is Kyocera.
Met the husband in 99 and he had a bag phone. Loved that thing. Thought we looked cool! btw as of this writing my Twins just might….MIGHT avenge that opening day debacle.