The Cell Phone: Marty Cooper’s Big Idea

Hear the story of the invention of the cell phone from the man whose team came up with it at Motorola. The inventor, Martin Cooper, is still at it, improving the gadget he came up with 37 years ago. Morley Safer reports.

Source: CBS News

The Cell Phone Junkie Show #208

The Cell Phone Junkie Show #208 1:13:30
Show Notes
EVDO Rev B. shows up, using your phone while travelling and how about a nice cup of Froyo during these warm spring days.

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News
Worldwide handset shipments on the rise
FCC frees up 25MHz of spectrum for broadband
FCC says wireless industry is not competitive
Washington State Patrol warns that cell phone tickets will start June 10th
Google announces WebM
Why overheard phone calls are annoying
FTC approves Google’s AdMob acquisition
What AT&T says about iPhone exclusive
AT&T increasing ETF on smartphones to $325
Are Verizon and Sprint going to roll out Rev. B networks?
Verizon launching up to 3-5 LTE phones by mid-2011
Verizon could launch VoRA phones
Sprint evaluating LTE
T-Mobile introduces new Pre-Paid plans
T-Mobile announces HSPA+ network in NYC

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Devices
Pixi Plus coming to AT&T too
Pre and Pixi heading to the UK on O2
HTC Mondrian
New Blackberries coming to T-Mobile
New Blackberry Bold 9800 pics
Nokia E73 Mode coming to T-Mobile
HTC Wildfire
Cox Wireless Hero
T-Mobile MyTouch 3G Slide
HTC Vison looks like Desire with qwerty
Motorola Shadow?
Samsung Wave on Vodafone

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Software
Google announces Android 2.2 Froyo
Google says most 2010 Android phones will get Froyo
Froyo on Nexus One in the next couple weeks
Or already
Definitely not for the G1
Gingerbread planned for Q4
Adobe introduces Flash 10.1 on Android
Google adds over the air app installations and iTunes streaming
Amazon Kindle app for Android coming this summer
AT&T account mgmt app on Android
Android 2.1 for the Sprint Hero
Blackberry Internet Service 3.1
Blackberry Twitter client gets update
BES Maintenance releases
Tethering coming to the iPhone in 4.0 for AT&T
Slacker Radio 2.0 coming to the iPhone
Official Twitter client for iPhone
Seesmic for iPhone brings multiple accounts into one app
Fun way to integrate social networking to Evernote
iPhone OS Beta 4 hints at LED flash and camera for all iThings
Minor webOS Facebook updateHTC HD2 Update now available
New text only mobile Facebook site
More devices can now run FIOS mobile app

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