32 years ago on April 3, Martin Cooper made the first private call from a cellular phone. The then VP at Motorola (and inventor) was on his way to the first ever public demonstration of cellular-phone technology when he called Joel Engel - a rival in the field at AT&T's Bell Lab.
The phone weighed 2 pounds and looked similarly like a brick. (Imagine that!) The mobile phone didn't hit the market until 10 years later - Motorola then debuted the first cellular phone - the DynaTAC - in 1983. The price? $3,500.00 smackers! That's a heck of a lot more than the "buy one for $49.99 and get one free" deals you see today.
Today, there are more cellular phone subscribers than landline users and our phones today weigh as little as 3 piddly ounces.
Thus concludes today's day in work history tidbit. Yes - you really do learn something new everyday.
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