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Kids These Days with Their GSM & Their No-Antennas & Their RAZRs & Their SIM Cards...

The big daddy of all cellphones, the patriarch himself, Martin Cooper, has this to say about modern phones:

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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget....-ass-phone.jpg

You know that smartphone you love, that ultimate expression of handheld convergence that some would call a mobile computer? It's crap. Or so says octogenarian, Martin Cooper, former lead engineer at Motorola said to have invented the handheld cellphone -- really, his name is on the "Radio telephone system" patent and he's credited with making the very first private handheld cellphone call from a busy New York City street on April 3rd, 1973. Well Marty doesn't like those newfangled handsets. In fact, according to our sterling Mr. Cooper, "Our future I think is a number of specialist devices that focus on one thing that will improve our lives." Words uttered this week during a conference in Madrid. Imagine it: a future where we carry a portable radio, film camera, wind-up watch, Kaypro luggable computer, HP calculator, and Atari handheld... oh wait, that was the eighties.

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/1...icated-rock-n/

It always happens, in this order.

1. New task required (such as easy access to music)
2. New device invented to perform task (mp3 player)
3. New device improved/perfected until it can perform task effortlessly, and shrunk to a small physical size so as to fit in one's jeans pocket.
4. New device merged with existing device. (mp3 GPS, mp3 cell phone, mp3 car radio)

Wash, rinse, repeat. One can only imagine the kind of stuff future gadgets can do in 10 years.. maybe your cell phone also doubles as a defibrillator, HD video recorder, stun gun, time machine..

watch sooner or later we're going to be born with cellphones implanted in our heads ..... with gps.... and wifi :D