The cell phone was invented by Bell Labs. They made them from about 1947 to 1967. But there has been a lot of controversy about this. Some are claiming that Martin Cooper, who was the vice-president of Motorola at the time. Articles in the San Francisco Chronicle said he made the first cell phone call in 1973. Then it goes back to say that the real inventor is the group or person who developed a concept about small cells and then implemented an automatic switchover system. This was Bell Lab. So Bell Labs created the first cell phone.