For the First Time in Cell Phone History, You Can Opt Out (opens in new tab)

On April 3, 1973, a Motorola engineer named Martin Cooper stood on a sidewalk in Manhattan, raised a two-and-a-half-pound prototype to his ear, and placed the world’s first handheld cellular phone call. The man he dialed was his chief rival at Bell Labs. Cooper wanted him to hear the news firsthand: that Motorola had beaten […]