Mobile Phone is 40 Years Old Today

[lexipixel]

The mobile phone turns 40 years old
USA TODAY - 10:33a.m. EDT April 3, 2013

On this day in 1973, the most important phone call in technology history was made.

Using a prototype Motorola DynaTAC, inventor Martin Cooper made the first call on a mobile phone. Forty years later, it's considered a brick compared to the diminutive devices we carry around.

[usatoday.com...]

[piatkow]

Diminutive? With more and more function they seem to be getting larger again.

[Lame_Wolf]

They could be older. Here is a possible one from 1938 [youtube.com...]

[graeme_p]

It was the last of the big breakthroughs of the last 100 years (it was preceded jet engines, antibiotics, the electronic computer, the transistor and integrated circuit, etc.)

[lexipixel]

sum stuf gotta b unvented