Today is the 50th anniversary of the first phone call

 April 3, 1973, is an important day in the history of world technology. Because the first phone call was made on this day. 

Martin Cooper sat in New York and took the phone book out of his pocket and dialed a number on a relatively large device. Which is the first version of mobile phone today. 

Cooper, an engineer at the Motorola company, successfully activated the 'exclusively personal, portable' cell phone. 

The 94-year-old technician still gets nostalgic thinking about that time. "I think he was gritting his teeth," he says of his mission to beat rivals to success.

Motorola's rival company, Bell Laboratories, was also focused on developing car-based phones. Cooper jokingly said, 'Can you believe it? For more than a hundred years we have had copper wire hanging in the house (landphone). This time they were going to tie us to the car.'

However, Cooper and his company began a mission to bring wireless communication technology out of that system. And success is met by walking on that different path.

In 1984, 11 years after the first successful phone call, the Motorola Dynatac 8000X model mobile phone was released. Its market price at that time was 11 thousand 700 dollars.

"There was no messaging option, no camera," says Cooper. There was half an hour talk time. It took 10 hours to charge the battery. It could provide 12 hours continuous standby service. There was an antenna on the head.'

Its weight was 790 grams. Which is four times more than iPhone 14.

Although the mobile phone is currently being used in combination with various technologies, the inventor of the mobile phone is not very satisfied.