The mobile phone

World Wise Web by BBC

Feb 28, 20209:34Technology

In 1973, Marty Cooper made the first public mobile phone call using his newly invented cell phone. Now, there are more mobile phones on the planet than people. Fourteen-year-old Becky, from Northern Ireland, asks Marty a...

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