Happy 50th birthday to the cellphone: inventor remembers the first mobile call

April 3, 2023, marked 50 years since the world’s first cellphone call was made in New York. Martin Cooper was the engineer with US telecommunications company Motorola who made the call in 1973. While recalling the moment that revolutionised global communications, Cooper said he expects phones of the future might one day evolve to be “distributed on your body at some point”, though he admitted he still has concerns about privacy and addiction to mobile devices.