what s the battery life like, dare i ask you? so, the battery life on that was about 30 minutes. it would take about ten hours to charge. it had a standby of a similar time as well. wow. marty cooper, the pioneer of the mobile phone, is not a fan of current designs. today s phone is suboptimal. it is not really a good phone in many respects. just think about it. if you take a piece of plastic and glass that s flat and put it against a curved head, you hold your hand in an uncomfortable position. so, what does marty think about the future of phones? we are still at the very beginning of the cellphone revolution. we re going to eliminate poverty because we are becoming more productive because of the cellphone. i just bet we will eliminate disease. 0ur educational system is going to be revolutionised. i think all of these things are potentials of. ..the cellphone is not going to do it by itself,
it s already in the food system and we are already consuming it. interestingly, if you want to make milk itself in the lab, that s a different process entirely. that would need to use animal cells themselves. something that s involved in the chicken that is waiting for me later in the programme. now, five decades ago an american engineer made history by placing the very first mobile phone call on a busy street corner. and zoe kleinman has been chatting to marty cooper to find out more about that iconic moment. zoe: mobile phones. we love them. the un estimates three quarters of the world s population owns a mobile phone, and there are more mobiles than people in the united kingdom, according to the industry s trade body. this man helped make it all happen. marty cooper was an engineer at motorola. and on 3 april 1973 on a street corner in new york, he made
from the first model. there are some real icons from the mobile phone timeline here. ben wood knows all about the history of mobile phones, and has his own collection. here we have a true icon, the motorola dynatac 8000x. the first truly hand portable mobile phone. conceived in 1973, when the first phone call was made on a prototype of this, launched eventually in 1984, and that device cost about $4,000 at the time which would be about £9,500 today. £9,000! and it is pretty heavy, again. what s the battery life like, dare i ask you? so, the battery life on that was about 30 minutes. it would take about ten hours to charge. it had a standby of a similar time as well. wow. marty cooper, the pioneer of the mobile phone, is not a fan of current designs. today s phone is suboptimal. it is not really a good phone in many respects. just think about it.
now, five decades ago an american engineer made history by placing the very first mobile phone call on a busy street corner. and zoe kleinman has been chatting to marty cooper to find out more about that iconic moment. zoe: mobile phones. we love them. the un estimates three quarters of the world s population owns a mobile phone, and there are more mobiles than people in the united kingdom, according to the industry s trade body. this man helped make it all happen. marty cooper was an engineer at motorola. and on 3 april 1973 on a street corner in new york, he made the world s first public mobile phone call to a competitor at a rival company. i was on sixth avenue, demonstrating this cellphone. i took out my phone book that gives you an idea what primitive times these were and i called my counterpart in the bells systems building, joel engel.