Martin Cooper Quotes

The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day.

I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds.

I don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light.

Even though I'm totally dependent on modern electronic gizmos, from my laptop to my iPod to my cell phone, I love to embrace old technology or no technology at all.

It's sad that the cell phone is replacing the watch as a time-telling device. I wear a vintage watch that's really skinny.

My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.

The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.

If you want a product that's thicker with a bigger battery, it's also heavier, more costly, takes longer to charge.

You can't take my batteries out; I'm always on the go.

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

I never really started to carry a cellular phone until it was small enough so I could put it on my belt and not even feel it was there.

And believe it or not, she has a phone and everything. She stopped using smoking signals last year.

I went into the Verizon store the other day, and the salesman was pretty excited. He was like, 'Hey Dierks, what can I show you?' I said, 'The cheapest, lowest tech phone you have.' I think he was disappointed. Everybody else was running out for the new iPhone 6, but I got a flip phone.

I can at least hearken to a time when I didn't have a cell phone, where I had to call my mom after movies collect from a pay phone, and when they said, 'State your name,' I'd say, 'Mom, pick me up,' and hang up the phone.

As technology tries to maintain its dizzying ascent, one dead weight has kept its altitude in check: the battery.

Every great device, gadget, electric car, and robot would be even greater if batteries didn't suck so badly.

Believe it or not, you actually need your phone to be able to flex a little bit.

I have never sent a fax, and I've never even sent a text message.

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.

Cellular was the forerunner to true wireless communications.

Cost, safety, energy density, rates of charge and discharge and cycle life are critical for battery-driven cars to be more widely adopted.

Our rules need to keep pace with current technology so that Americans who use hearing aids can easily use phones.

Tablets are more intuitive than a PC or laptop. They also have more real estate than a smartphone.

I don't have a cell phone because I know how horrible it is. Using your cell phone is like putting your head in a microwave every day.

I use Verizon. My wife uses Cingular. I also have an AT&T phone for the car.