[Nfbf-l] 40 years ago today, martin cooper of Motorola invented the cell phone

[Alan Dicey]

40 years ago today, martin cooper of Motorola invented the cell phone

Mmartin cooper the inventor of the cell phone.
Motorola cell division
He made the first cell phone call 40 years ago in 1973. He made a called to
a rival at Bell labs.
The call began with these words. (Can you hear me now?)
The phone was about 12 inches long and weighed about 2 Lbs/pounds
And now, the smart cell phone explosion is on and on.!
* In the past four decades, the world has gone from monster
handsets to pocket-sized portable computers.
Martin Cooper changed the world when he made the first cell phone call 40
years ago. 
The former Motorola vice president and division manager made the call on the
company's DynaTAC phone while standing in front of the New York Hilton on
Sixth Avenue
<http://newsroom.cisco.com/feature-content?type=webcontent&articleId=1111338
His first call: to the head of research at Bell Labs, a company that
also was attempting to build the first cell phone. 
Cooper's call did more than untether people from their fixed phone lines; it
opened the door to true mobility and continues to affect virtually every
aspect of our lives. 
Long gone are the clunky phones, such as the DynaTAC, or the large cell
phone famously used by Zack Morris on the television sitcom "Saved by the
Bell." In their places are sleek smartphones and tablets
http://reviews.cnet.com/tablets/> with massive brains and access to a
super-fast wireless connection. People don't just use their mobile devices
to make phone calls. In fact, they do a lot less of that now. They use their
phones to browse the Internet, order delivery food, play word games with
each other, and keep up with the ever-increasing tsunami of e-mails and text
messages. 
Cooper remains a revered figure in cell phone history. He had another moment
to shine at Motorola's Razr event
http://www.cnet.com/8301-17918_1-57509155-85/when-the-biggest-moto-stars-ar
ent-its-new-razr-phones/> last fall. When current Motorola executives
introduced him, the throngs of jaded bloggers and reporters stopped their
typing to pay their respects for his accomplishments. 
A lot has changed since Cooper worked at Motorola and the company was a
world-beating giant in the telecom industry. Now, what's left of the
Motorola cell phone division largely has been swallowed up by Google, which
now dominates the industry with its Android
http://www.cnet.com/android-atlas/> mobile operating system. What hasn't
been gobbled up by Google and its partners (primarily Samsung Electronics)
is left to Apple, the other major player in the field.
As part of the 40th anniversary, Cisco put together an infographic (above)
that highlights some of the milestones that got us from Cooper's first call
to today's Google Glass <http://reviews.cnet.com/google-glass/> and beyond.
In 1992, the first commercial text message is sent ("LOL"). Two years later,
Tetris makes its debut as the first cell phone game. In 2004, the first
Wi-Fi-certified cell phone is introduced and is now a commonplace feature as
the wireless carriers look to unload as much traffic as possible on Wi-Fi.
The graphic also highlights the introduction of Apple's App
Store in 2008, marking the first of a new generation of application stores
and inspiring legions of developers. 
Looking ahead, the advent of cellular technology has enabled wholly new
connected devices, as evidenced by an image of Google Glass making its way
to the infographic. The carriers, meanwhile, are looking to connect
everything from cars to dog collars and medicine pill bottles. Cisco
projects by 2017 there will be more than 10 billion mobile devices around
the world, with video accounting for 66 percent of all traffic. 
But it all goes back to that first phone call. 
Article written by
Roger Cheng, who is an executive editor for CNET News. Prior to this, he was
on the telecommunications beat and wrote for Dow Jones Newswires and The
Wall Street Journal for nearly a decade. He's a devoted Trojan alum and Los
Angeles Lakers fan.


With Best Regards,
Alan
Miami, Florida
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