Martin Cooper with the fruits of his labor. Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images
Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images
Shockingly, Drake was not the first to make that hotline bling.
Back in the ’70s, telecommunications were the new frontier for tech companies. This is how one executive made the call that cellphones would change human life forever.
Who is he? Martin Cooper — aka the father of the cellphone, and former head of Motorola’s communications systems division — and the first person to
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