![]() ![]() It was about 10 inches high, inch and a half wide, 3 inches deep. By the next year, his team had the first working cellphone system.įLORIDO: It was a feat of engineering, even if it couldn't quite fit into a standard pocket.ĬOOPER: It ended up weighing 2 1/2 pounds. KELLY: So in 1972, he set out to create a mobile phone that could fit in your pocket. You see he saw things differently.ĬOOPER: The cellphone ought to be the extension of a person, and it ought to be with the person all the time. And he worried that car phones would become the standard for mobile communication. And Cooper says Motorola's competitor, Bell Labs, saw car phones as the future. Up until that point, the only portable phones that existed - for the general public, at least - were in people's cars. You know how blase they normally are, but they were startled because there were no cordless phones at that time. KELLY: At the time, Cooper was head of the communications division at Motorola, and he was there to demonstrate his company's latest invention.ĬOOPER: New Yorkers were passing by. ![]() MARTIN COOPER: I was on the streets of New York, 6th Avenue, right next to the Hilton Hotel. Martin Cooper remembers exactly where he was standing when he made the first ever call from a cellphone on this day 50 years ago. ![]()
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