http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/0...04812.html

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It was April 3, 1973. Richard Nixon was in power, Elton John was top of the pop charts and a bloke by the name of Martin Cooper was about to make a phone call that would change the world.

Cooper worked for what was then a little-known company called Motorola and he had just developed the world's first "hand-held cellular telephone''.

"It was huge,'' recalls Cooper, who was in Sydney this week to address a communications conference.

"The phone weighed almost two kilos - it was about the size of a brick.''
If that sounds prehistoric, so too was the phone's power efficiency.
"The battery lasted somewhere between 10 and 20 minutes. But that didn't matter very much because you could only hold it up to your ear for 10 minutes before your arm got tired,'' he says.

Cooper knew the first call he ever made on that state-of-the-art phone would be a moment of history.

So who did he call on that April day from a Manhattan street corner?

He rang the communications Joel Engel, the head of research at Bell Labs, an arms of the telecommunications giant AT&T - Motorola's direct competitor - to let them know he had beaten them in the race to make the first mobile phone.
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"It was one of the more chilling conversations that I've ever held. These people at AT&T could not understand how a little upstart, a tiny company like Motorola, would dare to tell them, the largest company in the world, how to run their business.

"I thought I heard some gnashing of teeth in the background,'' jokes Cooper.

At the time, the thought millions of people around the world owning their own mobile seemed like a pipe dream to Cooper.

"Keep in mind that the first [mobile] telephone cost millions of dollars to make. Ten years later we produced the first commercial phones and those phones sold for US$4000 [$A5180], which would be closer to US$10,000 or US$15,000 today.

"So the idea of having a billion and a half people having cell phones - some of which are literally given to them for nothing - was a really long reach.''

And is there ever a time when the man who made the mobile wants to tell mobile phone users to shut up?

"It depends whether they are being rude or not. If they're talking quietly and they are benefiting from that phone call, I feel very proud because I think people's lives have been improved.''