Question: When was the first mobile phone released to the public?
Disambiguated questions and answers: question: When did the first customers have access to mobile phones?
When was the first handheld mobile phone released?
When were the first analog cellular systems deployed?
When were the first digital mobile phones released?
answer: 1946
1973
1979
1990s
Natural Questions answer: 17 June 1946 (from the Wikipedia article "History of mobile phones")