Martin Cooper Quotes

The idea that, you know - when I was growing up - that everybody would carry around a portable communicating device, that was science fiction when I was a kid.

I don't even have a cell phone. I don't know how they work.

For me personally, the technology that has taken the most unexpected turn in my lifetime is what I refer to as 'the device formerly known as the cell phone.' I still remember many predictions that by 2000 there would only be about a million cell phone users. Boy, were they ever wrong!

I like my phone. My phone makes magic happen.

People thought I was crazy thinking about a phone you can just put in your pocket.

I'm mobile.

I don't have a cell phone (though for years I've kept saying, "soon").

I use a Blackberry. I'm so behind on mobile communication technology, I think a smartwatch may be too far a leap.

It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.

The most important impact on society and the world is the cell phone. Cell phones have actually been one of the primary drivers in productivity improvements.

I'm not a techie, but I don't know how I lived without an iPad! Mine comes with me everywhere. As greatest inventions go, it's up there with electricity and cars.

Just the idea to have everything you need essentially stored in one piece of portable technology is very exciting.

I do like the iPhone. I've been a Blackberry person from, like, literally day one of Blackberry, so it's been a real switch, but it's a great device.

I love my iPhone; it's great to have a camera around all the time.

I think most people in the developed world would admit to carrying some sort of handheld device, whether it's a laptop or a cell phone, at all times.

I lose my cell phone so much that I switch it every month or so, but Sony Ericsson is usually what I use.

I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.

I'm not complaining about my cell phone - all my friends are in there, and all my favorite songs and all my favorite Benedict Cumberbatch GIFs; I don't want to give it up. But cell phones are the worst for talking on the phone.

A smartphone is a mobile computer in your pocket.

It's free of hip dialing. You can have some pretty confidential conversations and not get overheard by the camera man by talking into this flip phone.

I used to have a BlackBerry. E-mail and text messaging and all those things that make life so much easier now.

I think everybody understands mobility because everybody's got a cellphone and lots of apps and seen how they've moved off of PCs and onto mobility.

I didn't have a cell phone for awhile, until I was, like, 13 or 14, and before then, even if I did have one, it didn't work.

I am probably one of the last people on the planet without a cell phone.

We predicted the concept of a telephone that isn't tied to a wall or a desk. We anticipated that everyone would have a cell phone. We joked that when you're born you would be assigned a cell phone and if you didn't answer you had died.