50 years after the first mobile phone call, we select history's best phones
50 years ago, on April 3, 1973, Motorola engineer Martin Cooper made the first call using a mobile phone. From his office on New York's 6th Avenue, the then-General Manager of the company's Communications Systems division dialed a rival inventor, Dr. Joel Engel, who – out of disbelief or anger – reportedly said nothing on the other end of the line.
In contrast, the One M8 was resplendent in its all-aluminum glory, with dual speakers at the top and bottom that really made it stand out from the crowd. The fact that it was a great phone all round didn’t hurt, but it was the One M8’s design that sticks with me a decade on.Anyone whose memory reaches far enough back will remember that HTC was a firm bedfellow with Google in the early days of Android, at the inception of the Nexus program.
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