Tomorrow’s World: Mobile Phone 13 September 1979 – BBC
Posted on January 4th, 2012 by admin
From the BBC Archive ‘Tomorrow’s World’ collection: www.bbc.co.uk Michael Rodd makes a call with an experimental cordless mobile phone. It’s 1979 and time for the telephone to go mobile. In this report from a longer programme, Michael Rodd (pictured above) examines a British prototype for a cordless telephone that allows the user to make calls from anywhere. Also included at the end of this item is a rather nice out-take as Rodd also experiences the first mobile wrong number.
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Farting noise….. a dialing tone, lol
@DaddysBigTummy Glad they invented text, cus who wants to call people on a phone?
i want one!
A mobile with a dial would be the coolest retro phone ever.
HOW COOL IS THAT!!! I can’t wait till they bring mobile phones out.
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2011.
Still no flying cars…
“Unique mobile handset”? My arse! Where’s the app showing me the films at Chelmsford cinema? I don’t want it. It’s too big and ugly anyway! It would be embarassing to show to my friends.
@1100HondaCB ha cock
The RF would have fried his kidney had he spent 3 minutes in a conversation. Everytime he pulled down his zipper, you would hear bbc radio two.
I’d love to walk into starbucks and sit next to a person who is using a iPad and iPhone and fire this baby up!!! Along with an Osborne-1 portable computer shaking everyones coffee on the table.. Ha ha ha.
But wil it blend?
Whoever invented the mobile should have been drowned at birth. If only that cunt knew the turmoil he/she would inevitably cause for future generations. Mobiles are anti-social in the sense when one is conversing with another and their phone rings, then a pleasant conversation is cut short in favour of the telephone. Also when I am in a public place, someone’s phone rings and the whole world soon has no option but to listen. People have also been killed on the roads as a result of the mobile.
@senorleemond If you had got this, you’d be a mutated zombie from the 9,000,000 RADs per second it probably emitted!
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1979
Wow, Tomorrow’s World ahead of their time!
2009
We’ve only just got this handset with bluetooth recently:
youtube.com/watch?v=FR_2dnBEapM
2011
(Smiley Face)
Englishman: “Here, Eric. Check out my new invention!”
American: “It’s, it’s…a phone, but it’s mobile!”
Englishman: “Exactly, it’s a mobile pho-.
American: “Yeeehaw, I think we should call it a….cell phone!”
Englishman: *Facepalm*.
Englishman: “Here, Eric. Check out my new invention!”
American: “It’s, it’s…a phone, but it’s mobile!”
Englishman: “Exactly, it’s a mobile pho-.
American: “Yeeehaw, I think we should call it a….cell phone!”
Englishman: *Facepalm*
Englishman: “Here, Eric. Check out my new invention!”
American: “It’s, it’s…a phone, but it’s mobile!”
Englishman: “Exactly, it’s a mobile pho-
American: “Yeeehaw, I think we should call it a….cell phone!”
Englishman: *Facepalm*
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oh if they saw what you could do on a phone to day….
Where was the lead going ; up his ass ?
broadcast 32 years ago today!!!! The day before my 9th birthday!! Didn’t get a mobile phone as a present though!
broadcast 31 years ago today!!!! The day before my 9th birthday!! Didn’t get a mobile phone as a present though!