50 years since first mobile phone call BBC News

50 years ago on a busy street in New York, the first mobile phone call was made. Marty Cooper, an engineer at Motorola, rang his counterpart at rival firm Bell Laboratories on 3 April 1973 to tell him he was calling from a personal, handheld, portable cell phone. The BBCsZoe Kleinman spoke to the man who made the history and asked him about the future of mobile phones. Please subscribe HERE , MobilePhones, BBCNews