Invention of the telephone biography of martin
Photo of first telephone.
Invention of the telephone biography of martin
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Martin Cooper, inventor of the mobile phone, said manufacturers are cramming too much into new handsets
By Tania Teixeira |
Martin Cooper may not be a household name, but his invention is familiar to more than half the planet's population who own a mobile phone.
The concept of a handheld phone was his brainchild, and with the help of his Motorola team, the first handset was born in 1973 weighing in at two kilos.
When he stood on a New York street and made the first phone call from a prototype cellular phone, he could not have conceived how successful it would become.
Now a worldwide telecoms industry has sprung up along with a vast array of technologies developed for mobile phones.
$10,000 phone
He told Click that producing the first phone cost Motorola the equivalent of $1m (£650,000) in today's money.
"We had to virtually shut down all engineering at our company and have everybody working on the phone and the infrastruct