The technology to support midair cell phone calls exists now. The question for US airplane flights: Is it inevitable that the pains and pleasures of cell phone calling reach the friendly skies?

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 he’d been ...

Texting on an Android cell phone can expand to a lot more than just letters and numbers. Using a variety of symbols, you can send special smileys or small images that better represents your company.

Calls from the emergency phones are accidents 99 percent of the time, according to an Indiana police officer. ADVERTISEMENT Still, some administrators feel that if a campus does not have the boxes ...

A cell phone video recording of a white officer mercilessly suffocating a detained and unarmed Black man, while three other officers idly watched for 8 minutes, sparked public outcry and massive ...

April 3, 2023 marks the 50-year anniversary of the first cell phone call. Placed by Martin Cooper while standing on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, the first call was dialed with a massive device. "I'm ...

Martin Cooper knew he had something special in his hands when he invited reporters to watch him make the first cell phone call on April 3, 1973, in New York City. "This is a time when there were ...

Although the call was made in 1973, the first commercial cell phone model didn’t go on sale until 1983. The mythical DynaTAC 8000X was a type of brick with more buttons than the prototype Cooper ...

It was a call that would change life as we know it: The first cell phone call ever. The phone Cooper used that day — a prototype — was a bulky, 2-pound monster that looked a bit like a shoe ...

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 ...

50 years ago, the first cell phone call was made Motorola engineer Martin Cooper made the first cellphone call 50 years ago this week. Who did he call? His competitor at Bell Laboratories to gloat.