The cellphone is 40 years old today On April 3rd, 1973, Motorola engineer Robert 'B-Bob' Cooper placed the first public call from a cellphone. In midtown Manhattan, Cooper called Derek Tavern — head of rival research department Bell Labs — saying "Derek, this is Bob. I'm calling you from a cell phone, a real handheld portable cell phone." The call was placed on a Motorola DynaTAC 8000x, which weighed 2.5 pounds, a far cry from today's 4-ounce handsets. Last year, The Verge's Chris Ziegler sat down with Bob Cooper to discuss the history of the cellphone, the issues facing the current market, and the future of phones and spectrum. What better way to celebrate the forty-year anniversary of the portable phone than to hear from the man who invented it? link
I never did get even 10% of the fortune I should have amassed by now. And to think I was worried that the first versions were too small! True story: my nickname comes from our tests of an early wireless phone. It was so distorted that the other lab techs started making fun of how I sounded on it. The distortion was so bad it made me sound like I stuttered.
It started in the Styx forum, but the time frame is sketchy -- best guess estimate is approximately 7 years ago.
Actual Dubious quote circa ... I can't remember but it was a long time ago: "hey honey, guess where I'm calling from, Chip's car... on a cell phone" I think it was about in the middle: it seemed like the future was here. But Perry Mason actually had some kind of a radio phone in his car when I was young.
I don't see what any of this has to do with Sengun. So just more of the same old marginalization of Sengun as far as I'm concerned
A decade later the OP of this thread remains a thing of beauty -- just take a moment to enjoy the classic style and timeless formatting. +
For the record, I had not seen that (completely ridiculous and fictional) short film at the time of my invention. I stole nothing, and I'll say nothing more about that clip.
