The Verge Interview: Marty Cooper, father of the cellphoneA really nice interview. Posted by DaveH at April 3, 2013 10:16 PM
Marty Cooper quite literally invented the cellphone during his tenure as a division manager at Motorola, demonstrating it for the first time in April of 1973 when he famously called his chief rival � Bell Labs' Joel Engel � to personally deliver the news that he'd been beaten.