He pioneered the cellphone. It changed how people around the world talk to each other — and don’t
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FILE - Children from Yazidi families, displaced by Islamic State group militants, look at a smartphone in a partially constructed building in Dohuk, northern Iraq, Dec. 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Seivan Selim, File)Martin Cooper, who led the team that built the first mobile cellphone, sits behind a prototype of that phone at his home, April 4, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)FILE - Nolan Young, 3, front, looks at a smartphone while his brother Jameson, right, 4, looks at a tablet in their home in Boston, Jan. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)A woman talks on her mobile phone in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, Sept. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)FILE - Sarasvati Devi talks to her mother in Myanmar via video call as Ranjan, her brother, holds the phone, outside a camp for Hindu refugees near Kutupalong, Bangladesh, Sept. 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)FILE - A youth checks his mobile phone on the bank of the River Ganges in Prayagraj, India, June 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)
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FILE - Children from Yazidi families, displaced by Islamic State group militants, look at a smartphone in a partially constructed building in Dohuk, northern Iraq, Dec. 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Seivan Selim, File)
