On April 3, 1973, Motorola executives showed off a portable telephone. About 10 years later, consumers started buying them.

"If it wasn’t me, it would have been somebody else,” Martin Cooper, otherwise known as Marty, tells DCD. Except it wasn’t somebody else, it was Cooper who invented the first ever portable cell phone.

If you needed to make a call, you needed a payphone and the right change. But this archive clip shows a moment when that ...

The mobile phone model used to make the first call was over 30 centimetres tall and weighed almost a kilo. 3 April marks International Mobile Phone Day, an event that is not explicitly recognised by ...

In 1982, the idea of carrying a phone with you sounded almost impossible.If you needed to make a call, you needed a payphone and the right change.But this archive clip shows a moment when that started ...

Calling from anywhere once felt impossible. This is what that first step looked like. Calling from anywhere once felt impossible. This is what that first step looked like. Calling from anywhere once ...