Can you guess what the world's first text message said?
Four out of 10 people admit to sleeping with their phones near their side in case they miss a text It is 30 years since Britain’s first mobile telephone call, made using a cumbersome hand set and a battery the size of a house brick. Since then the phones have altered out of all recognition and changed our lives. •The UK’s first commercial call took place on New Year’s Day 1985 between Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Racal Vodafone, and his son Michael. The 24-year-old left a family party in Surrey and drove to London with the Transportable VT1 device. Speaking from Parliament Square, he told his dad: “Hi, it’s Mike. Happy New Year. This is the first ever call on a UK mobile network.” Later the same day comedian Ernie Wise became the first celebrity to make a mobile telephone call. •The first mobile telephone call in the world was made on April 3, 1973 by Martin Cooper, a former Motorola inventor, who is known as ‘the father of the cellphone’. From Sixth Avenue in New York, he