TECHNOLOGY When was the first cell phone call made and by who? 50 years on Can you imagine life without that little piece of technology in your pocket, allowing you to contact people around the ...

Using a prototype handset, a massive contraption that weighed 2.5 pounds, he placed the first ever cell phone call to Bell Labs engineer Joe Engel -- a friendly ribbing of a rival.

50 years ago, an engineer at Motorola placed the first cell phone call. Since then, massive bricks have made way for the slim smartphones of today.

"I'm calling you on a cell phone, but a real cell phone, a personal, handheld, portable cell phone," Cooper, then an engineer at Motorola, said on the phone to Joel Engel, head of AT&T-owned Bell ...

You can also make calls to non-Skype landlines or to cell phones using SkypeOut, a fee-based service.

April 3, 1973: the day the first cell phone call was placed--on a huge Motorola device. Mobile tech has evolved a lot in four decades.

Thirty years ago the first commercial cell phone call was placed from Chicago to the grandson of Alexander Graham Bell. The phone used wasn't as huge as you might imagine, but it was probably more ...

The technology to support mile-high cell phone calls now exists, and according to CNN, we might be only a year or two away from implementing in-flight cell phone calls.

In the years since that first call, Cooper has written a book on the transformational power of the cell phone, started companies and done speaking tours and media appearances.