The first mobile phone in human history was born 38 years ago

In the past 15 years mobile phones have become used all over the world, the lives of people have changed a lot. NowThere are also few people who can not live if the mobile phone runs outThat's right, the first cell phone was made in 1973, 38 years ago from now. What kind of shaping and what kind of performance did you have?

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The first telephone that can talk while walking on the street was made in 1973 by Martin Cooper. It is the year when the US military announced withdrawal from Vietnam. On April 3 of that year, Cooper who was 44 years old then used the first mobile phone prototype on the streets of New York. As Cooper himself predicted, the people who saw him talking with the phone on the street on the street seemed puzzled. At that time it was an era when only rich people were able to have a phone in a gorgeous car. In addition, the first mobile phone created by Martin Cooper weighs about 2.5 pounds (about 1.1 kilograms) and, as you can see from now, it was like a brick substitute.

Martin Cooper, now 82 years old, said, "I walked around the city while talking on the phone on that day, I remember all the New Yorkers that were watching the scene were bothered by all, in 1973 Because there were no cordless phones in the experiment, at this time I crossed the road while talking to the radio personality in New York, probably one of the most dangerous things I experienced in my life It is said.

The state of the experiment which took place on April 3, 1973. Cooper at this time was general manager of the communication system division of Motorola.


Motorola announced the first commercial mobile phone "DynaTAC 8000X" in 1983, 10 years after the first experiment.


This is the "DynaTAC 8000X" main body. It weighs about 793 grams and the body size is about 33 cm × 4 cm × 9 cm. In addition to the numeric buttons from 0 to 9, there are nine buttons for adjusting the volume and turning on the power, and the entered numbers are displayed on the LED display. In addition, continuous talk time is about 1 hour, continuous standby time is about 8 hours. It took 10 hours to fully charge. The price at the time of release was 3995 dollars (about 340,000 yen), and the number of mobile phone world market subscribers at that time seems to be about 300,000 in 1984. By the way,Approximately 5 billion subscribers to the mobile phone world market in 2010It has become.


The generations are new in order from the leftmost "DynaTAC 8000X", but as you can see, you can see that the miniaturization and multifunctionalization are remarkable.


In 2007 Mr. Martin Cooper reproduced the situation at that time.