You've come a long way baby
Happy 20th birthday to the Aussie mobile phone.
Mel Ward, then MD of Telecom Australia, made the nation's first mobile call on a Mitsubishi handset from the Sydney Opera House on February 23, 1987.
Back then mobile phones were the size of a briefcase, cost over $4,000 and had a battery life of less than half an hour.
Now a staple of modern life, the mobile has long since shaken off its 'Wall St' yuppy image.
As for Mitsubishi, well I'm sure they make nice cars, but their time as mobile telephony trailblazers has long since passed into history.
Obviously being first isn't always best.
posted by Stan Lee at 12:30 pm
2 Comments:
And in that film too Douglas shows off his kid's new portable handheld TV. The size of it looks like a damn WWII walkie-talkie but the screen appears almsot iPod-ish in size.
That Oliver Stone, what a tech soothsayer he was.
Too funny, Stan! I remember those massive phones with the big battery packs (must be showing my age). They had curly chords linking the handset to the battery ... and you could put your back out carrying the whole thing around.
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