Mobile phone inventor made first call 50 years ago

Key Facts

Image caption, Marty Cooper, with the phone he used to make the first mobile call On 3 April 1973, Marty Cooper stood on a corner of Sixth Avenue in New York and took a phone book from his pocket.
So we had been trapped in our homes and offices by this copper wire for over 100 years - and now they were going to trap us in our cars!" Image caption, A commercial version of the Motorola phone, first used by Mr Cooper, is owned by the Mobile Phone Museum.
Needless to say, Mr Cooper and Motorola did not agree this was the way forward - and history has proved them right.
You take a piece of plastic and glass that's flat - and you put it against the curve of your head; you hold your hand in an uncomfortable position; when you want to do these wonderful things that it can do, you have to get an app [first].