Ancient ‘Dial-a-Poem’ Service Rises From the Grave, Lets You Use Your Phone as a Phone

There's something rather poetic about a service designed to breathe life back into poetry getting resurrected after all these ...
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1st cell phone call successfully made 50 years ago by Motorola engineer

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 ...
Hackaday

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One of the useful side effects of the ubiquitous availability of cellular network data modules is that they can be used to create custom mobile phones. It’s surprising in a way that we don’t see as ...
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50 Years Ago, the First Cell Phone Call Was Made on This DynaTAC Dinosaur

Dr. Martin Cooper of Motorola decided to make history by trolling his rival, Joel Engel of AT&T, with a phone call. Reading time 4 minutes Leer en español. On April 3, 1973, a man named Martin Cooper ...
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Meet The Man Who Made The First Cell Phone Call Ever As A Customer

The first cell phone call ever by a customer started with a stolen car. It was decided by a race in Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. And it was completed to the granddaughter of Alexander Graham ...