20+ Years After the First Call

It's astonishing to stop and think about how much has changed over the past 20 years and how both the technology and our lifestyles have evolved around the mobile phone since it was first launched commercially in the mid-eighties.

As BBC News points out, we have gone from "phones that were the size of a briefcase, cost about $4,000 and had a battery life of little more than 20 minutes" to now holding more computing power in our handheld Treo smartphone than PC's less than a decade ago and we can do things with it today that most of us didn't even know existed back then. 

John Arlidge in the Observer takes a worthwhile look back at the birth of the mobile phone, where it has taken us, how it has altered our lives and what it holds for us in the future. 

Who knows, in 20 years time we might be able to tell people how extraordinary it was to own the world's first true smartphone...

[Via Phonemag] 

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