Motorola spent three months building a prototype for a portable, mobile handset ... cell phone geared to senior citizens. Martin Cooper placed what's recognized as the first public cell phone ...

Cooper authored the patent for the "cellular telephone system," created the first mobile phone, and nearly half a century ago ...

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.

Martin Cooper is the man who made it possible for us to use modern smartphones. Cooper was the one who authored the patent for the "cellular telephone system", created the first mobile phone ...