... to pay phones to drop a dime, maybe a nickel, to call friends and family. A few people --typically well-off professionals such as doctors and lawyers--had car phones. On April 3, 1973, Motorola vice presidents Marty Cooper and John Mitchell went to New York to show off a new type of phone, the likes of which had never been seen before. It was the ... ...

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