Vintage Tech: The 1st Public Cell Phone Network

[Warbaby]

We take cell phones for granted, but it wasn't that long ago that they were a futuristic dream. Here's an interesting film promoting the first public cell phone network in 1979. The clothes they're wearing are pretty amusing too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecl2ZO2MnTI&feature=uploademail

 

[MisterCairo]

Far out!

I am old enough to remember "car phones", the first time I ever saw mobile phones. My aunt in England was an estate agent, her car phone was the first one I ever saw, 1988.

The clothes, the hair, the cars!

 

[Fletch]

In 1935, police car "radiotelephones" required a 20-lb transmitter, the size of a small suitcase, with its own 300-volt electric motor!