It’s something most of us do every day, but Elmhurst businessman David Meilhan did it before anybody else.
Back on Oct. 13, 1983, in the parking lot of Soldier Field, he made the first ever commercial cell phone call.
He and a technician were part of a race: the first team to install the phone got to make the call. David and his technician Jeff Benuzzi won. Meilhan said he never expected the replacement for his expensive car phone would be a device that would change the world. The device Meilhan used that day was a Motorola Dynatac 800x, the first commercial handheld cellular phone.
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