53 years ago today, the first ever call was made on a cell phone. An engineer behind the phone made a call to his business ...

NEW YORK CITY -- On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper stood on a sidewalk on sixth avenue in Manhattan with a device the size of a brick and made the first public call from a cell phone to one of the men ...

I spoke to an AT&T archivist about Alexander Graham Bell's famous transmission. Even though calls have changed, the reasons behind them are still the same. Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology ...

On April 3, 1973 Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first ever call on the first ever truly portable telephone. But it wasn't until ten years later, in 1983, that Motorola sold its cellular phones ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jack White has officially entered the 20th century. The musician, who has famously banned cell phones from his shows, announced on ...

These days cellphones are basically extensions of our bodies, so it might be hard to imagine life without them. But the world’s first telephone call — or, more specifically, the first time a ...

On Oct. 9, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made a telephone call to his assistant a few miles away — the first demonstration of what would ultimately become a global telephone network. When you purchase ...