He stated that he uses his mobile phone less than five percent of his time. People who spend too much time on their phones live too little, he said. In 1973, Cooper introduced the first wireless cellular phone, the Motorola Dyna TAC 8000X.
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He said that he could talk for 25 minutes on the first phone before it turned off. During his time at Motorola, he has built various devices including a hand-held police radio system.
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The first phone weighed 1.1 kg and was 10 inches long. The battery charge lasted only 25 minutes. Not only that, it took 10 hours to charge the phone.
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He graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago in 1950 with a degree in electrical engineering and joined the US Navy during the Korean War. After the war he worked for Teletype Corporation and later in 1954 for Mittal Motorola.
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