12/12/2008Martin Cooper is the inventor of mobile phones used by more than half the world’s population. Birth the first handset in Motorola in 1973 with the help of a team with a weight of two kilograms. When he suffered on the streets of New York and make the first phone call from the prototype cell phone, she never imagined it would be successful homemade device someday.
To produce the first cell phone, Motorola will cost the equivalent of U.S. $ 1 million. In 1983, portable phones worth U.S. $ 4 thousand, equivalent to U.S. $ 10 thousand. Cooper said that his teams face the challenge of how to put all the ingredients in a phone for the first time. However, eventually the industrial designer has done a superb job and the engineers completed the first two kilograms of mobile devices. Materials that are critical to the first mobile phone are the battery with a weight of four or five times than the existing mobile phone. 20 minutes of battery life, but it is not a problem because users will not use it for that long, “he said.
After producing mobile phones, the biggest challenge is to adapt the infrastructure to support mobile phone calls. The challenge is creating a network with only requires 3 MHz spectrum, equivalent to five TV channels are channeled into the entire world, “he added. He and his team hope that someday everyone can have their own handset. In fact we joked by saying in the future, when someone is born it must sign a telephone number and if it does not answer phone calls, the user will die. We do not have a shadow in 35 years time half the people on earth will have mobile phones and they are giving to others freely.
At first the phone was officially created to help doctors and hospital staff improves their communication. Cooper hopes the device will help the security and freedom for the people, but it turns out the social implications that arise beyond the understanding of Cooper’s for nearly four decades ago.
But Cooper still enjoys experimenting with new mobile phones, because he wanted to understand the innovations that occurred in the mobile market. You have to dive into the product and use it to better understand, is why I have a new phone every one or two months. Along with the development of mobile phones into the fourth generation, with new features in each reforming, cell phone inventor says that the handset in the future should aim at improving the quality of life of users. Technology makes life better, more comfortable, safe, educate, entertain and most make more productive and healthy.
In terms of physical development of phones that have shrunk from the initial size of a brick, he believes that future users would be able to share with these devices. Phones in the long term will be inserted under the skin behind the ear with a sophisticated computer that will make the job harder.
