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However, decades later, he is calling out smartphone addiction in people and finds it heartbreaking when he sees someone using their phones while crossing a road...
50 years ago today, the first commercial mobile phone call was made by Martin Cooper, who eventually came to be known as the 'father of cell phones'..
But what you don't know, perhaps, is how Martin Cooper feels about the state of smartphone addiction today and what he thinks the future of phones will be...
The first commercial phone call was made by Cooper on April 3, 1973, when he was working for Motorola, and it was a significant moment for the entire world as this completely redefined the way human beings communicated with each other..
In the interview with AFP, Cooper also called out the state of cellphone addiction in people and said that it was quite worrisome..
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