Kris Kumar
04-11-2005, 11:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1293&e=2&u=/ap/20050410/ap_on_hi_te/motorola_first_phone&sid=95573418' target='_blank'>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1293&e=2&u=/ap/20050410/ap_on_hi_te/motorola_first_phone&sid=95573418</a><br /><br /></div><i>"The brick weighed 2 pounds, offered just a half-hour of talk time for every recharging and sold for $3,995. Clunky and overpriced? Not in 1984, when consumers lined up in droves to buy the first cellular phone as soon as it hit the market. And certainly not to Rudy Krolopp, lead designer of the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. ... "Marty called me to his office one day in December 1972 and said, 'We've got to build a portable cell phone,'" Krolopp recalled. "And I said 'What the hell's a portable cell phone?'" ... Krolopp says Motorola's new Razr is "really a cut above" anything that was done in the past but still represents only "the tip of the iceberg" of what phone designers will be able to do."</i><br /><br />Recently Jerry had posted an article about the <a href="http://smartphonethoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7994">founding father</a> of cell phone, Martin Cooper. Here is a news story that mentions that the cell phone project started with the remark <i>"What the hell's a portable cell phone?"</i> :lol: Definitely a must read article, especially if you like to complain about the battery life and the size of your current cell phone. ;-) What do you think are the key technological advancements that have happened in the area of cell phones in the past decade or so? What are your thoughts?