2023-10-13

The cell phone (mobile) is exactly 40 years old today!

On Oct. 13, 1983, the first commercial cell phone call was made from Chicago to Berlin Monday, October 13, 2008 / By Elwin Green, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

The first commercial cell phone call in the U.S. was made 40 years ago.
It was on Oct. 13, 1983, that Bob Barnett, then president of Ameritech Mobile Communications, placed the first commercial wireless call from inside a Chrysler convertible at Soldier Field in Chicago, to the grandson of Alexander Graham Bell, who was in Berlin, Germany. Oddly, none of the journals reporting on the event at the time named Mr. Bell's grandson.

(Motorola Dynatac 8000X in the foreground in the photo, the first cell phone model marketed in North America and in the world!)

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