The Social Impact of Cell Phones

In April of 1973, a man named Martin Cooper altered the way of communication for the rest of his days and many years to come. He possessed a dream that would better the way we conversed with one another from a distance. Back in those times, the closest thing to “cellular technology” was a car phone made by the AT&A Company but, Martin and his determined Motorola group yearned higher heights and deeper depths for communication- and thus the birth of the first cell phone was in process. Cooper wanted to exceed the limitations of just simple “car conversation”. After consistent tedious hours of production, lasting a several month long period of building, critiquing, and finalizing, the first cell phone was born. The first mobile device was the size of a cinderblock and weighed the equivalence of its worth- a stack of
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money. Little did Cooper and his Motorola team know that their innovative idea would come to be one of the world’s most beloved inventions. The invention of the cell phone changed this once simple, cell phone deprived world into a society with an advancement cast down from Heaven. Martin Cooper and the Motorola team caused an about-face in the world of communications from thence on (Anjarwalla).
Cell phone sells were at its apex. Cooper and his team devised a technology so novel that the popularity of it was instantaneous. A device with the ability of only conversating is what the first cell phone was, but as time progressed and technology flourished the once simple talking device transformed into a diminutive computer. Gradually, a plethora of unique features were supplemented to the cell phone sharpening its value making it worthier and superior to the first cell phone. These features include browser accessib...

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