The designed object I am going to talk about was created in 1973, is the mobile phone that was created by Martin Cooper, who was the executive of the telecommunications company Motorola, which was where the first mobile phone was produced. After researching, the first phone was pretty bulky and consisted the shape of a brick and weighed around two pounds and the first phone call was made on April 3 of 1973 by Cooper to his rival, Dr. Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, the call was said to of lasted about 30 minutes after the phones battery had been charged for over 10 hours. Ten years later in 1983, the mobile phone was finally ready to be announced to the public and for the world to see the power of sound wave technology in the palm of their hands and around 1989 mobile phones where starting to be designed smaller for easier carrying and use. Martin Cooper was born Marty Cooper on December 26, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois. He had a mother, father and brother named Mary, Arthur and Will. His family immigrated to the U.S from Ukraine Russia and his parents made a living by selling merchandise door to door. Cooper’s mother and father, Mary & Authur Cooper cared and wanted the best education they could provide for their kids. Cooper described his father to be a wonderful guy and is lucky and thankful to have a father like him. When Martin was a young boy he had a curiosity on how things worked and as his parent’s notice this they decided to wait and let their son figure it out on his own. As time went on, Cooper attended the Illinois Institute of Technology to earn his bachelors in electrical engineering, and graduated in 1950, he then joined the U.S Navy and fought in the Korean War and after the war he began working at Motorola after joining the Teletype Corporation in 1954, and earned his masters in electrical engineering from IIT in 1957. Cooper worked on many projects involving wireless communication, like the first radio controlled traffic light in 1960 and police radios in 1967. The first mobile phone that was available to be purchased by consumers as a handheld device was the DynaTac 8000x on March 6, 1983. Ameritech supplied the first U.S network (1G) andit took over a decade for it to reach the market. The phone was sold for around $4,000 and it only lasted around 30 to 35 minutes of talk time usage and it took over ten hours for the device to fully charge. With this consumers demanded for the phone to have longer battery life, lighter weight and smaller size for easy carry around. In 2002, technology made another huge change in the history of mobile phones buy putting color and adding a camera creating the worlds first camera cell phone, which where the Nokia 7650 and the Sanyo SPC-5300. Designers as Artists are assumed to know things and have contagious, profitable personalities tied to their stardom. No matter how cool your interface, Beatrice Warde’s famous Crystal Goblet metaphor asserts the design, the glass, should be a transparent vessel for content, the wine, stating typography should be a perfectly transparent vessel for content. Over that past decade we have seen magnificent convergence of media. Mobile phones can now play music and display webpages and present high quality videos, sometimes, and clear text. The invention of the mobile phone was just for long distance talking, but as time moves forwards, the structure of the phone kept on being updated as well to keep up with the times. New advancements for phones since the 1970s are now being built smaller with a touch screen and containing applications like app games, calender, camera, text messaging and emailing. From the time until now cellphone or mobile play a really significant part of people’s life. We would not deny that cellular phone has altered people’s time style. This history of the mobile phone has been evolving since the early innovation by Martin Cooper. There are some advantages from the design that reason most people are now getting cell phones. Cell phones increase the rate of communication and people get connected around the world even when they are really far apart at the same time.
Works Cited:
britannica.com/biography “Martin-Cooper American Engineer”
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