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The idea of cell phones started in the 1920's with police radios, but in 1947 Bell labs made the first cell phone. Dr. Martin Cooper took the idea and made a cell phone in 1973 for Motorola that is like what we have today. It wasn't until 1983 that the cell phone was sold to the public.

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