First Mobile Technology Invented. While at motorola in the 1970s, cooper invented the first handheld cellular mobile phone (distinct from the car phone) in 1973 and led the team that developed it and brought it to market in 1983. He is a pioneer in the wireless communications industry, especially in radio spectrum management, with eleven patents in the fie.
The first mobile phone call was made by a truck driver as an experiment in the summer of 1946 from a phone weighing close to 80 pounds. The phone, dubbed the “brick,” had one hour of talk time and eight hours of standby. In 1983, motorola released its first commercial mobile phone, known as the motorola dynatac 8000x.
While at motorola in the 1970s, cooper invented the first handheld cellular mobile phone (distinct from the car phone) in 1973 and led the team that developed it and brought it to market in 1983.
The first installment in the wildly popular franchise was released in december 2009 and quickly became a runaway hit. That problem was solved with the first functioning cell system and first real cell phone call in 1973. Alexander graham bell invented the telephone in 1876. On september 21, 1983, the fcc approved the phone for consumers to buy.