Dr Martin Cooper, a former general manager for the systems division at Motorola, is considered the inventor of the first portable handset and the first person to make a call on a portable cell phone in April 1973. The first call he made was to his rival, Joel Engel, Bell Labs head of research.
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Inventor Martin Cooper celebrates 30th anniversary of first portable cell phone call ... Following the April 3, 1973, public demonstration, using a "brick"-like 30-ounce phone, Cooper started the 10-year process of bringing the portable cell phone to market. ... Inventor Biography Sites...
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Editor's Note: African American Inventor Henry Sampson did not invent the cell phone. Sampson is a brilliant and accomplished inventor who invented a Gamma-Electrical Cell and not a phone cell. Sampson's patent (US 3,591,860) can be viewed online or in person at the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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inventor, martin cooper, MartinCooper, motorola, startac ... No, but his other cell phone is a Jitterbug. ... i bet Edison would say the same thing about his cell phone. buttons? that's far too complicated!
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Last year, Martin Cooper, the man credited with inventing the cell phone at Motorola in 1973, made headlines when he complained at a Boston conference that the iPhone was too complex.
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The inventor of the first cell phone was Martin Cooper. He grew up in Chicago and at the Illinois Institute of Technology earned a degree in electrical engineering. After four years serving in the navy, worked at a telecommunications ... The First Cell Phone | The Inventor of Cell Phones | Today's Cell Phones | Links;
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It's been 30 years since the first cell phone call was made. What does inventor Martin Cooper, now 60 years old, say about the future of the technology? ... Cell phone inventor Martin Cooper doesn't get any special treatment from carriers just because he created the now ubiquitous cell phone three decades ago.
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Cell phone inventor Martin Cooper doesn't get any special treatment from carriers just because he created the now ubiquitous cell phone three decades ago. Even his Motorola V-60 from Verizon Wireless cuts off callers in midsentence, he said.
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; Cell Phone Inventor Still; Dreaming 30 Yrs Later; By Yukari Iwatani ... CHICAGO (Reuters) - Thirty years after the first cellular phone call, inventor Martin Cooper still dreams about the day when futuristic telephone technology is a reality...
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Thirty-five years ago, Martin Cooper invented the cell phone, a device that has transformed communication. He tells the Reuters news service that people thought he was "crazy" to talk about phones in people's pockets.
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