Nowadays we can't live without our mobile phones, though they've not really
been in existence for very long. In fact, mobile phones
as we know them today have only been around in the last 20 years. Mobile phones, particularly the smartphones that have become our
inseparable companions today, are relatively new. However, the history
of mobile phones goes back to 1908 when a US Patent was issued in Kentucky for
a wireless telephone.
Mobile phones were invented as early as
the 1940s when engineers working at AT&T developed cells for mobile phone
base stations.
The very first mobile phones were
not really mobile phones at all. They were two-way radios that allowed people
like taxi drivers and the emergency services to communicate.
Instead of relying on base
stations with separate cells (and the signal being passed from one cell to
another), the first mobile phone networks involved one very powerful base
station covering a much wider area. Motorola, on 3
April 1973 were first company to mass produce the the first handheld mobile
phone.