When was the first cell phone made it was motorola was the first company to produce a handheld mobile phone on April 3, 1973 Martin Cooper. A motorola researcher and executive, made the first mobile telephone call from handheld subscriber equipment. When was the first mobile phone sold to the public it is somewhere in Chicago, or Washington, someone plunked down $3,995 to buy the motorola 8000x, the first handheld cellphone on march 13, 1984. When did martin cooper invent the cellphone it was forty years ago motorola engineer martin cooper changed the world by making the world’s first cell phone call. He stood on a New York city street on April 3, 197, with a 10 inch and 2.5 pound phone, the nickname is the brick.