Martin Cooper Quotes

The mobile phone is not a toy; it's a device that uses radio waves.

Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum.

Cellular was the forerunner to true wireless communications.

We initially targeted pager networks, which have been suffering for the last decade due to cell phone sales.

With the advent of cell phones, especially with the very small microphone that attach to the cell phone itself, it's getting harder and harder I find, to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone.

I'm a big mobile fan, so I love seeing all of the latest technologies with phones.

We thought our vision was right, which was that someday everyone would be walking around carrying phones with them.

I love cell phones. I see people so happy and proud, walking around. Gesturing, you know. I'm like Karl Marx, I'm up for anything that makes people happy.

Cell phones were more popular in Cambodia and Uganda because they didn't have phones. We had phones in this country, and we were very late to the table. They're going to adopt e-books much faster than we do.

I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.

The infrastructure we provide is the same in a remote town in Africa or New York or an archipelago in Sweden: we use the same system, and the chips inside the phone are the same.

Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure.

Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile phones there.

It was a no-brainer that the cellular route would be a great success in Africa.

No country should waste wireless spectrum. Especially not India, where the cellphone has become the personal computer.

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

The iPhone revolutionised the mobile industry, rather like the iPod before it with the personal music player.

Mobile is something I think about all the time now.

Mobile is an incredibly fast-growing market and will continue to be.

The world going 100 percent mobile actually means the world going 100 percent trackable.

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.

5G is not going to replace 4G. 4G and 4.5G are going to coexist with 5G.

I think what's really going to happen is we're going to have a lot of different kinds of phones when our industry grows up - some that are just plain, simple telephones. In fact, my wife and I started a company, and she designed the Jitterbug, which is just a simple telephone.

Given a choice, people will demand the freedom to communicate wherever they are, unfettered by the infamous copper wire.

I love iPhones. I love iPhone 6 Pluses and iPhone 6s and iPhone 5s's and iPhone 5cs. I also love iPhone 4s. I'm sure if I had been savvy enough to own one, I would've loved the original iPhone.