But then, in 1973, Motorola engineer Martin Cooper showed what the future would look like: the DynaTAC 8000X. Based on Bell's cell network concept, it was the world's first handheld cell phone.

Imagination. Physics. Technology. In 1973, Martin Cooper invented the mobile phone with all three of these things. At the time, he said: “I want everyone to enjoy freedom and feel safe every day.” ...

Martin Cooper admits that he never envisioned that cell phones could serve ... balance in using technology. Read also: Motorola unveils groundbreaking phone that transforms to smartwatch iPhone ...

These days Martin ... Cooper made the first public call from a handheld portable telephone on a New York City street on April 3, 1973, using a prototype that his team at electronics company ...

These days Martin Cooper frets like everybody else ... we are going to conquer disease,” he said Monday at MWC, or Mobile World Congress. Cooper, whose invention was inspired by Dick Tracy ...