1. The First Commercial Mobile Phone

The world's first mobile phone call was made in 1973 by Motorola employee Martin Cooper from the streets of New York City. He called his biggest rival. "I was calling Joel Engel who was my antagonist, my counterpart at AT&T, which at the time was the biggest company in the world. We were a little company in Chicago. They considered us to be a flea on an elephant," Cooper told BBC.
"I said 'Joel, this is Marty. I'm calling you from a cellphone, a real, handheld, portable cellphone.' There was a silence at the other end. I suspect he was grinding his teeth."
The phone he called on was a prototype Motorola DynaTAC which, a decade later, was to become the world's first commercially available mobile handset. It got the FCC's thumbs up in 1983 and launched in 1984 at a cost of $3,995 -- which is about $9,000 today, accounting for inflation.
As a symbol for '80s yuppie tech, the DynaTAC appeared in Gordon Gekko's hands in Wall Street, and later, Patrick Bateman used one in American Psycho. It was also known as the "Zack Morris phone" because the Saved by the Bell character often used a similar model in the series.
The first mobile phone call in the UK took place in 1985. Comedian and one-half of Morecambe and Wise, Ernie Wise, called from London to Vodafone's Newbury, Berkshire offices, then located over a curry house.

25 Amazing Facts About Mobile Phones Which Will Shock You

We can’t imagine our lives without a mobile phone now. We are addicted to them, our day starts with them. Google’s Google Now, Apple’s siri and Microsoft’s Cortana became a part of our life, they made our lives simple and they help us in many ways. Now let us see the amazing facts about mobile phones.

1. Have you ever used Nokia 1100? Be proud, it was the bestselling electrical gadget in history with more than 250 million pieces sold.
2. $4000 is the cost of first mobile phone in US, in 1983.
3. In 2012 Apple sold more than 340,000 iPhones per day, which is around 4 per second.
Also see amazing facts about Apple Inc., and evolution of iOS.
4. Be careful while using your mobile phone, it has 18 times more bacteria than toilet handles.
5. Is your phone water proof? 90% of mobile phones in Japan, are waterproof.
6. Insomnia, confusion and headaches are caused due to mobile phone radiation. Experts have identified ringxiety, nomophobia, telephonophobia and frigensophobia as conditions that can effect people.
7. This sounds odd, but you can charge your phone by using urine, scientists developed it.
8. The first mobile call was made by Martin Cooper in 1973.
9. Do you know that the present mobile phones have more computing power than the computers used for the Apollo 11 to land on the moon.
10. In Britain more than 100,000 mobile phones are dropped down in the toilet every year.
11. In 1993, world’s first Smartphone was debuted at Florida’s Wireless World Conference by BellSouth Cellular, it has a LCD touch screen display. This was designed by IBM and named as Simon ,priced at $899 and only 2000 Simmons are made at that time.
12. In U.S., the mobile phone towers and antennas are often disguised. Engineers have developed ways to install the equipment into telephone poles, clock faces, church roofs and even in signs. Even mobile phone tower is often disguised as plastic trees.
13. 70% of mobile phones are manufactured in China.
14. Around 80% of the world’s population has a mobile phone.
15. More than 90% of adults have their mobile phone within arm’s reach all the time.
16. There are more mobile phones than PCs, the ratio is 5 times.
17. More than 4 billion people own mobile phones. But only 3.5 billion use a toothbrush.
18. Within 3 minutes of delivery, 90% of text messages are read.
19. More than 80% of adults in U.S. own a mobile phone.
20. What is your monthly mobile phone bill? 142,000 pounds is the highest ever mobile bill by Celina Aarons.
21. According to Guinness World Records, Sonim XP3300 Force is recognized as the toughest phone. It survived an 84ft drop without any operational damage.
22. Mobile phone industry is the fastest growing industry in the world.
23. iPhone 5 Black Diamond is the costliest phone in the world, which costs $15 million. It will take nine weeks to build, made of 135 gram solid gold of 24 carat and the chassis was inlaid with 600 white diamonds.
24. 74 % of smartphone users use their mobile phone to help with shopping, of which 79% ultimately making a purchase.
25. Mobile phone users mostly spend their time on games and social networking(49% and 30% respectively).