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axxxr
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In 1973 Martin Cooper, the inventor of the first portable handset, was the first person to make a call on a cell phone (from Motorola to arch-rival Bell.) Now he's Chairman of ArrayComm!!
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buster
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Everyday we learn something new :-D
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axxxr
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We bow down in respect of you Sir Martin Cooper.
Mobile phones in the U.K are celebrating their 20th anniversary this weekend
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Yep all hail the inventor and who had the idea to say thanks to him 
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Chazzer3
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Praise to ye almighty one! |
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SyncMag interviews Martin Cooper the man who invented the mobile phone.
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"The 2.5-pound behemoth, christened Dyna-Tac, took years to design, and when it was eventually introduced in '83 as a retail cell phone, it cost $4,000. Hundreds of Motorola engineers worked to create portable antennas, low-current emiconductors and other mini miracles to make Cooper's wireless dream a reality, all in the name of breaking up a monopoly.
"We needed to prove that a company other than Bell could participate in this new industry, and our people did it," says Cooper.
... Since his brainchild not only slew a corporate Goliath but wound up in the hands of every creature on earth, he must be wealthier and more revered than Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison and Carrot Top combined. Right? "I signed away all my patent rights to Motorola for a dollar when I joined the company and don't get any royalties," Cooper says, without putting a shotgun into his mouth. "But I earned a few dollars with stock options and I still have the $1 check they gave me." That might be worth something on eBay."
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methylated_spirit
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Looks like he's about to pop his clogs any day now. Wonder how much he's worth?
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bit of a brick init 
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axxxr
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Martin Cooper is a absolute god without this man what would todays world be like without his invention?...we sure wouldnt be sitting here thats for sure.
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methylated_spirit
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someone else would have made it
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true true
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dgilmartin
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My Dad got his first mobile in 1984, when I was two!
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Residentevil
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You can see those banana phones in old movies. wow 1973 that is when it all started. 32years of mobile phones. Compare that banana to a P900. What a progress.
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On 2005-11-17 18:09:08, methylated_spirit wrote:
someone else would have made it
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You have no way of knowing that!
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methylated_spirit
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of course they would! Its like people saying "what would the world be like if John Logie Baird hadnt invented television"
Well ive got news for you buster, someone else developed it at around the same time, he just beat them to the punch. Its the same with phones, electricity, soap, and kittens. There are always at least half a dozen people working on similar ideas at any given point, its only natural, after all, to want to expand on an idea.
In the case of the mobile, AT&T were developing them as far back as 1947, which is widely overlooked.
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