The Future of Cell Phones Story aired: Tuesday, July 08, 2003
Do you have a cell phone? These days, it sometimes seems like every man, woman, and child is packing a portable.
However long you may have been mobile, we can guarantee that Martin Cooper beat you to the send button. That's because thirty years ago this year, Cooper stepped out of his office at Motorola and made the first-ever call on a portable cell phone.
These days the inventor of the cell phone is still at it as the co-founder of ArrayComm Corporation, he's now working on new technology to make cell phone communications even better.
Martin Cooper joins Here and Now from his office in San Jose, California.
Guests:
Martin Cooper, inventor of the first portable cellular phone and founder, ArrayComm.
