History of mobile phones and the first mobile phone

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History of mobile phones and the first mobile phone

 

Written by Ray Ali

11 April 2023

Although most of us feel like we couldn't live without our mobile phones, they've not really been in existence for very long.

In fact, mobile phones as we know them today have only been around in the last 20 years.

When were mobile phones invented?

Mobile phones, particularly the smartphones that have become our inseparable companions today, are relatively new.

However, the history of mobile phones goes back to 1908 when a US Patent was issued in Kentucky for a wireless telephone.

Mobile phones were invented as early as the 1940s when engineers working at AT&T developed cells for mobile phone base stations.

The very first mobile phones were not really mobile phones at all. They were two-way radios that allowed people like taxi drivers and the emergency services to communicate.

Instead of relying on base stations with separate cells (and the signal being passed from one cell to another), the first mobile phone networks involved one very powerful base station covering a much wider area.

Motorola, on 3 April 1973 were first company to mass produce the the first handheld mobile phone...

MORE: https://www.uswitch.com/mobiles/guides/history-of-mobile-phones/

 

 

Manuel's comment on his substack: 

The history of mobile phones goes back to 1908 when a US Patent was issued in Kentucky for a wireless telephone... Aka: a radio. People forget that the cellular, wifi modules, etc. are just tiny radios…

Here’s a headline from 1953… No escape indeed…

Here: https://strangesounds.substack.com/p/nice-try-fed-but-we-are-not-the-dummies