PREFACE
On April 3, 1973, Marty Cooper almost became the first person with a mobile phone plastered to his ear to be hit by a car. He was so busy talking, so excited about what he was doing, that he stepped out into a New York City street without looking.
His excitement was understandable. He was making the first-ever public call on a handheld mobile phone, the device he had been shepherding through the systems division at Motorola. It weighed in at 2.2 pounds. The battery lasted only 20 minutes, but that wasn’t a major problem, he said, “because you couldn’t hold that phone up for that long.”
Until then, mobile phones had been bulky objects on the dashboards of cars, requiring all sorts of equipment elsewhere in the vehicles. But when Cooper ...
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