Inventor of Zack Morris phone goes Android By Taylor Wimberly on Mar 11 4 | More Do you know who Marty Cooper is? You should because he was the division manager who led the Motorola team that developed the first handheld phone. Cooper was the first person to make a call on a handheld cell phone prototype in 1973 and he is named on the patent “radio telephone system” filed that same year. Mr. Cooper was recently on C-SPAN and guess what he said when asked about his current phone (around the 30 minute mark). “ Depends when you ask me. I always have the latest cell phone, and I try every cell phone out, only because people like you keep asking me. Right now I’m using the Droid, because I want to get some experience with the Android operating system, and I, so far, have some f...