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title: "When was the cell phone invented?"  
description: "When was the cell phone invented?"  
author: "shubham Misra"  
published: 2017-11-15  
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# When was the cell phone invented?

When was the cell [phone](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/300535/manage-your-smartphone-addiction) invented?

## Answers

### Answer by Jayden Bell

The very **first cell phone** was created by **a Motorola worker** known as **Martin Cooper** a big name in the history of mobile phones. Handsets that would be utilized in a vehicle had been developed before Martin Cooper’s phone, however this was the primary usable actually **transportable mobile phone**. ![When was the cell phone invented?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/7ba0c518-332e-42ea-8779-15dd61e840bd/images/cedbe173-e083-481b-bdb3-f75d3c29c027.png)This cell phone was created in the **year 1973** and it was a revolution in the communication industry as it was the first transportable phone ever. It was the 1st commercial transportable cell phone.Cooper stood close to a 900 MHz base station on Sixth Avenue, between 53rd and 54th Streets, in big apple town and placed a call to the headquarters of **Bell Labs in New Jersey**.


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