Martin cooper

Mobile phone inventor Martin Cooper attends the 15th Annual Webby Awards at Hammerstein Ballroom on June 13, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for The Webby Awards)

Cell phone turns 40. Thank you Martin Cooper.

Excellent Android phones come in all sizes at a variety of prices, but Google’s latest Pixel models are the best you can buy.

the cool newest thing.. cell phones! more like big-old-hinkin-older-than-a-home-phone-phone. and this guy is prob already dead.

1983: The first commercially available mobile phone, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, was priced at 3,995!

BARCELONA, Spain — Holding the bulky brick cellphone he’s credited with inventing 50 years ago, Martin Cooper thinks about the future.

On April 3, 1973 Motorola engineer Marty Cooper placed the first public call from a cell phone. He is considered the "father of the (handheld) cell phone" and is also cited as the first person in history to make a handheld cellular phone call in public, namely in 1973. Wikipedia

Forty years ago, someone asked a profound question that fundamentally changed how we communicate with each other every day. At the time, I was nine years old living in South Africa. When our family visited my grandfather’s farm for the holidays, the telephone we used was a “party line”, where [...]

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