Mobile phone inventor says phone addicts should 'get a life'
The inventor of the mobile phone thinks that addicted users should “get a life”. Martin Cooper - who led the Motorola team who created the first mobile phone in the 70s and was the first person to make a call from the personal telephone in 1973 - thinks that people glued to their smartphones need to rethink their priorities. After being asked what he would say to people who spend over five hours a day, the 93-year-old inventor told BBC Breakfast: “You really spend five hours a day? Get a life.” Martin - who has been dubbed “the father of the cell phone” - admitted that he isn't really his blow...