From bricks to flips: 50 years of mobile phones

Engineer Martin Cooper poses with a contemporary copy of the original cellphone he used to make the first cellphone call on April 3, 1973, in Del Mar, California. — AFP

PARIS: From brick-sized handsets popular with stockbrokers to intensely powerful computers that sit in all our pockets today, mobile phones have been forged by a half-century of innovation.

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