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Marty Cooper, Inventor of the Cell Phone, Wields a Droid

by Amar Toor on March 13, 2010 at 05:18 PM

We can't ask George Washington Carver if he prefers crunchy or smooth peanut butter. We can't seek the consultation of the Wright Brothers on how to go about saving the airline industry. We can, though, pick the brain of the very much alive Marty Cooper, the man who invented the cell phone -- which is exactly what C-Span recently did. Over the course of a half hour interview, Cooper revealed that although he was once a proud iPhone owner, he's since switched over to the Motorola Droid, primarily because he wanted to get to know Android a little better. Somewhat surprisingly, he also admitted that he still carries around the comparatively rudimentary Jitterbug, for those rare moments when he wants to use a phone to actually make phone calls. Then again, though, he did co-found Jitterbug with his wife, so that probably explains a lot. [From: Engadget]

Tags: android, cell phones, CellPhones, droid, inventor, jitterbug, martin cooper, MartinCooper, marty cooper, MartyCooper, motorola, motorola droid, MotorolaDroid

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