Cell phones Stories of “amazing” watches (Charlie Triballo/AFP)
At the age of 92, he shows the inventor The world’s first cell phone, Martin Cooper, was amazed at how much time people are currently wasting using their devicesThey are simply asked to give themselves a chance to “have a life”.
The New York Post quotes Cooper as saying in an interview with BBC Breakfast in which he responded to a guest saying that she spends more than five hours a day on her phone: “You really do that. Get a life,” then laughs.
In 1973, Cooper, originally from Chicago, was invented while working as an engineer in a company Motorola Communications, the world’s first mobile phone called the Motorola Dynatac 8000X.
Cooper mentioned in the interview that the idea that was launched at the time revolved around that people communicate with each other from their offices and kitchens, and now this will happen while they are wandering in their cars, where they spend 5 percent of their time, as it can happen when they get out of the car, and perform various life tasks. .
He says that he wanted everyone to have their own phone number, which he describes as “the greatest achievement of his invention”, given that phone numbers were associated with places, such as a home or office.
Motorola has allocated millions of dollars to the Cooper project, which took him and his team members no more than three months to build the phone, following they used similar technology to assemble police radios.
The manufactured device weighed 1.25 kilograms, and was 25.4 centimeters long. His first call lasted only 25 minutes, when Cooper called the land line of his rival, T&ET’s chief engineer, Joel Anga. Then the battery ran out and needed 10 hours to recharge.
“Joel, I’m Marty. I’m calling you from a real cell phone in my hand,” Cooper told his opponent at a huge outdoor event in downtown Manhattan, New York, attended by reporters.
And it took the phone to reach the market for a time contract, and it was launched to the public for the first time in 1983, at a cost of $3,995.
And last year, Cooper published his memoirs regarding the invention of the telephone in a book called “Cutting the Cord”, and production studios contacted him to discuss the content of a possible film regarding the atmosphere of the invention and its details, and the revolution it caused in the world, leading to making all people in the world today boundlessly connected to their devices.
In the United States, a survey conducted by Statista last year, which included 2,028 citizens, reported that 46 percent of participants spend between five and six hours on their cell phones per day. and 11 per cent have seven or more hours on their devices, which they describe as “amazing.”
