The name Alexander Graham Bell is no stranger to us. He is known as a scientis, engineer and innovator who is widely known as the father of telephone. But you may not heard of the name Marty Cooper. Yes, the may not be a common name, but his invention is familiar to more than 4 billion mobile phone subscribers.

Marty Cooper has came up with the concept of a handheld phone with the help of Motorola. As a result, the first mobile phone was born in 1973 with the weight of 2 kilos. He might have no idea how successful it would become when he made the first phone call from a prototype handphone on a New York Street.

Today, the worldwide telecomunication industry has expanded with a vast array of cutting edge technologies developed for mobile phones. The initial cost of the first phone produced by Motorola was one million dollars. His team faced the big challenge of squeezing thousands of components into a phone during the initial phase.

The battery was the biggest challenge according to the former vice president who led the Motorola team that developed the cellphone. The lifetime was just around 20 minutes but weighed up to five times more than an entire mobile phone now.

Today’s phone is more than a tool to make calls. It works as a gadget that combines digital organizer, short messenger and you can even check emails and surf the web. We should thank Cooper for his invention that brought us to a much more simple world.