2010 — National Reporting

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The Selling of the Cellphone - and Warnings Unheeded
By: 
Danielle Opotosky, Matt Richetl, Tom Jackson, and Jon Huang
December 7, 2009
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1973

The First Mobile Call

Martin Cooper, who helped design the first portable cellular phone, placed one of the earliest cellphone calls while he was general manager of Motorola.



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