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The First Cell Phone
In New York, Martin Cooper rivaled with At&T Bell Labs to create the first mobile phone.So when Cooper beat them to it, he made sure that his first call was to the chief competitor of Bell Labs. The new invention sold for an expensive price of $3,995 and weighed two pounds, receiving the nickname "the brick". The DynaTac mobile phone cost $100m in development costs, and took over a decade to hit the market. When it did hit the market on March 6, 1983,the talk time was only a half an hour and took ten hours to charge. Despite the horrible battery life, weight, and low talk time, that didn't keep down consumer demands. The waiting lists were in thousands.