Riyadh – Asdaf News:
Marty Cooper pulled a phone book out of his pocket as he stood on the intersection of Sixth Avenue in New York City on April 3, 1973. Then, as onlookers gawked at him, he entered a number into a huge, cream-colored device and held it to his ear.
Engineer Mr. Cooper from Motorola called his colleague at Bell Labs, a competitor company, and proudly announced that he was phoning from “a personal, handheld, portable cell phone.”
He remembers the other end of the telephone being silent. The 94-year-old laughs and says, “I guess he was gritting his teeth.
He claims that Bell Laboratories had been working on creating a phone that could be used in cars. “Can you really believe that? They were planning to trap us in our cars after trapping us in our houses and businesses for more for a century with this copper wire.”
Naturally, Mr. Cooper and Motorola disagreed that this was the best course of action, and history has shown that they were correct.
The fundamentals of how that initial call operated haven’t altered much. Your voice is transformed into an electric signal via the phone, and that signal modifies a radio wave. The radio wave travels to a mast, which then transmits your voice to the person you are contacting so that person can hear you talk by reversing the process.
Yet, there weren’t a lot of masts at that time. Nonetheless, you get the gist.
However when compared to that vintage Motorola model, modern cell phones are completely different.
Eleven years after that initial contact, in 1984, Marty Cooper’s Motorola Dynatac 8000X prototype was became commercially available. Ben Wood, who manages the Mobile Phone Museum, estimates that if it were purchased today, it would cost the equivalent of £9,500 ($11,700).
Mr. Wood recalls, “Basically, it was just dial the number and make the call.”
“Both texting and a camera were absent. a 6 in (15 cm) antenna on top, 30 minutes of call time, 10 hours to fully charge the battery, and around 12 hours of standby time.”
Moreover, it weighed 790g (1.7 lbs), which is nearly four times as much as the iPhone 14’s 172g weight.
Mr. Cooper admits he never imagined phones would one day be portable “supercomputers,” with cameras and internet connectivity, but he still isn’t satisfied with the design of the cellphones of 2023.
“I consider the phone of today to be subpar. In many ways, it’s not a very good phone “He claims.
“Just consider it. You hold your hand in an awkward posture while holding a piece of flat plastic or glass against the curvature of your head. In order to use the device’s amazing features, you must first download an app.”
He believes, in the future, artificial intelligence will either create, or select, phone owners’ apps for them, depending on their individual needs.
According to their particular needs, he predicts that in the future, artificial intelligence would either design or pick apps for phone owners.
He also thinks that in the future, the device will monitor our health, increase our productivity, and enormously better our lives.
He even makes the suggestion at one point that they might prevent conflicts.
He acknowledges, “The cell phone is not going to accomplish it by itself.” But, it will be the focal point of this fantastic future.
It appears that Mr. Cooper is still fascinated by the device he originally held to his ear on that New York street corner 50 years ago, despite his reservations about its contemporary substitutes.
“We are still at the very beginning of the cell phone revolution,” he declares.–bbc
