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Old 09-12-2007, 12:11 AM   #17 (permalink)
Reba
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Originally Posted by faNatic View Post
That looks like a crank up WWI army field phone. That's not a cell phone.

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"...Dr Martin Cooper, a former general manager for the systems division at Motorola, is considered the inventor of the first modern portable handset. Cooper made the first call on a portable cell phone in April 1973...."
Selling The Cell Phone - History Of Cellular Phones
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