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November 11, 2008
Making It Personal
Working as a project manager at Motorola, Martin Cooper invented the first portable handset in 1973. Keynoting at the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston, he pointed out that by making things portable, consumer mindsets migrated from calling a place to calling a person. Whenever I attend conferences, I become intrigued by obvious observations. Like the fact that it has been 35 years since this invention, yet quality of mobile service is still at odds with the tremendous gains that the industry has made in designing impressive gadgets that are now an extension of our own personal style (and status). Or the fact that all cell towers are outdoors when the majority of mobile phone calls are made inside buildings. As Martin said, the promise of ubiquitous broadband wireless has not been fulfilled.
He has a solution – smart antennas that magically connect the dots (between individuals) of better transmission quality. While his current business (smart antennas) takes a crack at solving the transport quality deficit, Cooper states the obvious. There is a whole lot of room to redefine the mobile handset market
Posted by Marti Konstant on November 11 at 07:03 PM
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