First Cellphone in the World

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Martin Cooper and his team at Motorola, the communications company, created maybe the only thing that ruins the lives of business professionals and teenagers nowadays -- the cell phone. In 1973, he changed the world, although he didn't know it yet. 

The concept of cellular technology had already been created by Motorola's rival, AT&T, whose Bell Labs introduced a system allowing calls to be moved from one cell to another while remaining on the same channel. But AT&T was focusing this technology on the car phone. Cooper wanted people to have the freedom to talk on the phone away from their cars. So in reaction, he and Motorola embarked on a project to create a more portable device. Motorola spent three months building a prototype for a portable, mobile handset that Cooper publicly demonstrated in April of 1973. The company's first commercial cellular phone, the "DynaTAC," went on sale 10 years later. Cooper was surprised when his landline dropped our call. After calling him back on his mobile, we had a chance to ask him about the creation of the device that changed the face of communication as we know it.

In an interview, Cooper said: For 100 years, people wanting to talk on the phone have been constrained by being tied to their desks or their homes with a wire, and now we're going to trap them in their cars? That's not good. So we decided to take on AT&T. By 1973, we decided to put on a dazzling presentation. I decided the best way to do that was to build a phone and have someone have the experience of talking on a real personal handheld telephone. And that was the genesis of that phone that we built. 

He added that he knew someday everybody would have a cellphone.