Many inventions have changed the world in many ways but not quite like the cell phone.
In 1973 today (April 3), a Motorola employee made the first cell phone call in New York on a phone dubbed ‘the brick’ because of its size.
It was a call that would revolutionize the telephone industry and free everyone from that connection on the wall.
The DynaTAC phone weighed about 2.2 pounds and was 10 inches long. It was about 10 years before Motorola made the cell phone available to the mass market. When it finally made its way to the public, its price tag was a hefty $3,600.
According to Martin Cooper, the man who made the first cell phone call, the idea was born in Bell Laboratories in the late 1940s. He said a man named Reid wrote in a memo that mobile communication was possible in the future.
Cooper, along with Joel S. Engel, Richard H. Frenkiel, Thomas Haug, and Yoshihisa Okumura were later honored as the co-inventors of the cell phone.
Forty years later the cell phone has transformed from a bulky device to pocket computers.
The cell phone began shrinking almost immediately after it hit the mass market. The introduction of the BlackBerry in the early 2000s ushered in the era of the smartphone and with the advent of the iPhone in 2007 the idea of cell phones as small computers began to catch on.
Cooper, now 84, does not necessarily embrace every aspect of the device he helped in creating. “I must tell you as much as we were dreamers, we never imagined that all these things could be combined into one. And I’m really not so sure that it’s a great thing,” he told CNN. “Phones have gotten so complicated, so hard to use, that you wonder if this is designed for real people or for engineers.”
a child cannot hold that one nar. lol imagine if thats what we had to use today? lol
You made me laugh.
It probably would be a good idea to have one like that. 
While cell phones serve a good purpose, parents and others would save a good sum of money. Consider the monthly and annual cost of a cell phone. This is an additional expense on their budget.
Thinking of this, it may be one of the reasons why they devised smaller ones that many people could purchase them. Manufacturer’s gimmick to make us spend our money. The service costs more today and the cost will escalate, higher than salary increase. Considering this, as the saying, “A fool and his/her money are soon parted.”
Phones have gotten so complicated, so hard to use, that you wonder if this is designed for real people or for engineers.”
I have always thought so myself.
Can you imagine my aunt being sick while grandmother having to use her Iphone to call 911 because there is no house phone? “OK let me think now!” unlock the phone? But I doh seeing no lock. It have password too? “Hey June, I know you are having a heart attack but I need de password for your phone to call de amublance”. “But I just seeing a buncha pictures on there!! facebook, twitter, HELP!!HELP!!Look June having a heart attack dere wi!!
Some things are best left to be antiquated.
I have an old cell phone the size of this phone or shall I call it a phone which is not even 10 years old. It was a sort of an extra telephone which could be carried around. With one telephone number, it could be programmed that calls could be made and also accepted anywhere in the city. They told us you will never miss a call. Even at work and in church? Jokers and deceivers.
The Provider has since discontinued this service. Those who bought it are stuck with it. It is bigger, looks awkward and takes up more space compared to the tiny cellulars. I should sell it for a million dollars…, as a collector’s item 
Who would want it and use it anyway?
In this country we have spent a lot of money on certain items which are no longer in use, similar to upgrading of technological systems, computers and blackberries, etc. They may not be repairable resulting in having to purchase a new one. This is the situation today, an expensive one.
Those manufacturers certainly know how to make us spend our money and to get them rich. This is the reason why some people these days are cautious in spending with product increases, no increase in salary and also frozen. The situation is not getting better. Young people beware!
Yep. And the story behind the story is that we the people were led gullibly like lambs to the slaughter. Smartphone, Iphone, “Youphone”, the companies had a deal with the CIA and FBI. Put GSM trackers on all of your phones and we’ll make sure that the Federal Government don’t look too closely at your taxes.
Lol. Quite interesting story.
Ohh waw!