Talk:Martin Cooper (inventor)

message: The article stated that Cooper has "no kids" and, at the same time, stated that he has "12 children". Corrected based on http://martincooper4.wordpress.com/about/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.157.128.2 (talk) 11:19, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Inconsistent information about children

message: The interview section should probably be transwikied over to wikisource, if it's not a copyvio. siafu 19:33, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: martin cooper has made a huge change in society today , why just look at all of the sidekicks sliders and touchphones out these days ....wothout martin cooper none of those great inventions would be discovered  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.215.27.169 (talk) 03:26, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  What has Martin Cooper done for Us????? 

message: I'm sorry, but a personal email where Martin denies being inspired by Star Trek does not pass WP:V; we have reliable sources starting that Martin was inspired by Star Trek and no reliable sources retracting this claim.  It may very well be true that this is an urban legend, but Wikipedia is based on what we can verify, not the truth.  If Martin had a web page or blog where he states this, that would be one thing; but until we can get more solid truth, this has to be deleted because of WP:BLP. Samboy (talk) 05:13, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  I'm removing the personal email 

message: At the moment the infobox says that martin cooper was born in 1928, and he was 82 years old at the time. Can someone please fix?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ozkidzez91 (talk • contribs) 06:41, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah alright, apparently I'm an idiot, or haven't seen the wikipedia page of a living person before. Seriously though, you can forgive my mistake, as that is the most literal interpretation of what is written there. Maybe wikipedia should look into this...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ozkidzez91 (talk • contribs) 06:46, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  infobox needs clean 

message: Why is a point made in the first sentence to say that his parents were Ukrainian? Is the practice of emphasizing the origin of famous people's immigrant parents a policy? I've never seen such a thing anywhere else on Wikipedia... 69.126.210.25 (talk) 01:11, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I am curious just how accurate that line is. It seems to be lifted straight from The Economist (which makes that emphasis in its article on Cooper), but other sources name his parents as the very un-Ukrainian sounding Arthur and Mary Cooper (unless they anglicized from Kuprin or something).Konchevnik81 (talk) 02:33, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Odd emphasis 

message: The summary includes the statement:  He is considered the "father of the cell phone."  Bell Laboratories actually invented cellular telephony--both the concept and the first practical system, which of course included cell phones (in automobiles).  It is true that due to savvy marketing, many people in the media--and even some technical people who really ought to know better--falsely treat Mr. Cooper as the inventor/father of the cell phone, but that is simply ignorance.  He can indeed be called the inventor/father of the handheld portable phone and (later) the handheld cell phone.
I suggest changing the statement in one of these two directions:
- Specifically use the qualifier handheld, or
- Specifically mention that the popular attribution is incorrect, and that Bell Laboratories actually invented cellular telephony.
Bell Labs' patent of cellular mobile communication system:
http://www.google.com/patents/US3663762
Description of Bell Labs' Advanced Mobile Phone Service, the first practical cellular telephone system.  It went into trial service in 1978, with full commercial service in 1983:
http://alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol58-1979/articles/bstj58-1-15.pdf
Mainstream references to Bell Labs' invention of cellular telephone systems/networks:
http://business.time.com/2012/03/21/how-bell-labs-invented-the-world-we-live-in-today/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/opinion/sunday/innovation-and-the-bell-labs-miracle.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
BeSkepticalOfAll (talk) 22:18, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why does the summary repeat an incorrect notion without clear comment? 

message: http://www.jewoftheweek.net/2011/12/14/jews-of-the-week-martin-cooper-joel-engel/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:780A:8D00:2C65:FD:924C:CA75 (talk) 01:52, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why was his Jewish ancestry not mentioned in the article and categories? 

message: I react to the fact that there are no references to MNT (Nordic Mobile Telephone) which in other articles is mentioned as the first successful mobile phone system. True, the first models were car mounted, later versions were detachable but HEAVY (battery was big to give god life between charging) and big but early on there was handheld versions (heavy ones). It was successful since it was fairly cheep and with borderless roaming, it worked as one net at the same charge all over the Nordic countries. I worked at NOKIA at that time and the phones was early on usually used by transferring the call to the office exchange where you had a meeting, but since it did not care in what country you was it was practical! I want some unification about mobile phone history from the early experiments in Sweden and USA to the today global coverage (including Iridium). (Any takers?)Seniorsag (talk) 16:36, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  References to or merging with Nordic Mobile Telephone 

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message: — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.29.102.252 (talk) 10:07, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is he listed as Ukrainian? He's Jewish 

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message: This article fails from the very first paragraph with the completely nonsensical use of reprise. Since these guys were the inventors of this technology, they were not reprising anything, as this means to repeat someone else's work. Use proper terminology when writing articles like this. PatrickDunfordNZ (talk) 06:46, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: What is a reprise