CHONGQING, Oct. 11(Xinhuanet)-- Future handsets should focus more on their communication function instead of attempting to combine MP3 players, cameras and game-playing, said Martin Cooper,the"Father of the Cellphone", at the ongoing 2005 Global Mobile Congress in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality.

Cooper invented the world's first portable cellular phone on April 3, 1973.

"With the combination of functions like playing games, cameras,MP3 listening and Internet surfing, mobile phones are becoming somehow like a universal device for everyone," acknowledged Cooper.

"If you make a universal device, it doesn't do very well in anyof these functions," Cooper noted."In that sense, if you want to buy an ideal camera, you will buy a camera, not a cell phone."

Cooper suggested that future mobile phones give more emphasis to communication by applying new mobile communication technologies to lower costs and improve services, which would improve people's lives.

The three-day 2005 Global Mobile Congress, which opened on October 10, has drawn more than 130 mobile phone experts, operators and equipment suppliers such Cooper, Arlene Harris, the"First Lady of Wireless", Peter Stavroulakis, the chief architect of the Athens 2004 Olympic Network, and Li Shihe, the father of China's homegrown third generation(3G) standard, and time-division synchronous code-division multiple access(TD-SCDMA).

The Global Mobile Congress, first held in Shanghai in 2004, takes place annually. Enditem