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Fact of the Day: The first cell phone call in history​

The first commercial cell phone was released in 1983—aptly called 'the brick' due to its hefty one-kilogram weight.

But what many don’t know is that a cell phone prototype has been in the works years before the brick was released.

Martin Cooper made the first successful cell phone call with a prototype ten years prior in 1973.

Cooper, an engineer working for Motorola, called the landline of competing phone brand Bell Labs to show off that they managed to make mobile phones a reality at the time.

Take a trip down memory lane with Martin Cooper here:

Source: TRT World/YouTube​