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7 years after this, I got my first mobile phone for my job in Australia. Once a month I used it to call my best friend from High School who had moved 450 kms away. It was much cheaper than calling him long distance land line. A half hour call cost me $20!!! The good old days.

1:26 “will be expensive”, that was before China was not in their equation.

2025 here watching on my watch that also makes calls ,texts,email, plays music, and tells time .

1:20 Man that’s so cool!! I can’t wait till they start making phones you can watch videos on!

Never gonna happen...

This didn't catch on. They're not talking about cell phones, they're talking about public networks using DECT. You wouldn't get wide coverage like cell phones, but much shorter range coverage in certain locations, basically Wi-Fi hot spots. This had its time in some Asian countries like Japan (PHS) and Hong Kong, where the access points were put around ATMs, so you had a bunch of (poorer) people hanging around there.

Now everybody’s talking but no one says a word

Land phones became so portable they yeeted themselves out of existence.

Load of shite, will never catch on.

It won’t catch on

Tomorrow's World & Top Of The Pops, That's Thursday evening sorted then? Any1 else spend Thursday like that?

Watching on my S23 Ultra in 2025

No mention of WhatsApp and TH-cam whatsoever.. 😂

2045 me, wait until you see what we’re using now!

I know it was a long time ago but I couldn’t help p*ss myself laughing

I've had at least 20 different mobile numbers, so that's false for a start.

I’m watching this on my telephone with a built-in television screen. Or should I say pocket computer with a built in telephone 😄

Phones with TV screens? I wonder if that ever caught on... 🤔

"An inbuilt television screen"? It'll never happen

Thank you for posting this, first time i have ever seen it, i worked on the telepoint "forum" phone back in 89 (at 0:45 secs in the video) and have recently managed to purchase a handset again as they are now classed as museum pieces.

yo this voice speaks at the correct rate, but the tone shouldn't be in A. G or C would be better.

old article and annoying text to speech don't get why people do this

None of us could possibly envisage in 1989 that this 'portable phone' would also become a TV, videophone, video recorder, video camera, stills camera, music player, sound recorder, navigational aid, calculator, pager, gaming device and a means of accessing almost all human knowledge with thousands of times the computational power of the most advanced supercomputers of the era. Had a time-traveller told me this in 1989, I would have thought them utterly crazy and what they were saying was pure Star Trek sci-fi.

I sill use them.

2:10 one single snack pretzel on a salad, WTF?

My mother used to fancy the male presenter when I was a little kid, Ill have to Google him as his name escapes me, but both Judith and My Mum Fancied Him were both great presenters, not idiotic, clear, informative and sensible with a sense of humour. Such a cracking show, especially the Howard Stableford and Phillippa Forester years. I guess tech has just come too advanced now to cover, and terrestrial tv isnt important anymore. Ah shame.

Can’t see it working to be honest, how could you possibly be able to talk to someone else without a phone line plugged into your phone, you would need 100s of feet of cable trailing behind you, really these inventions are just plain crazy and I would say to any else don’t be fooled by this, what are they going to think of next

They just described 5G! (larger number of smaller cells)

"Yes, even an in-built television screen could eventually be feasible." Nah, I doubt it.

Think its about time the stopped calling them phones as in Australia since 3G was shut down and now only have 4&5G making a phone call unless your right near a tower is absolutely hopeless CDMA was great 3G had good range but the crap we have now is totally useless

And you'll keep that same phone number for the rest of your life! 😂

❤ wow they look like bricks

perhaps you should mention in the title that this is an 1997 article

Huh?

And will give scammers endless opportunity 😤😝😠

Judith Hann!! A legend!!

No one ever predicted people would have sex while on their phones

Steve Jobs was laughing his head off !

Who is here in 2024 watching this on their phone?

Science fiction becoming science fact................

Notice how there’s no suggestion that they needed to be subsidised with taxpayer money. So different from electric cars.

A tv? On our phones?! Witch! Witch!

No one knew at that time that we would be watching them through pocket pc with touchscreen and a software known as youtube.

A television on your telephone what nonsense how can you have a television on your telephone

Ah the days before everyone became addicted to walking around with their eyes glued to the mobile

Yes they did

Wow. Did they know it would video?

A portable phone for everyone. That's Excatly how it's been transpired.

Actually, if they had just left as a phone,it would have been great! But no, just had to take it too far! Kids got hold of it, social media access, internet, camera, conference calling Its now an Ideal bullying and scamming weapon It’s actually difficult to get by without a smart phone now!

Watching this on a cell phone in 2024 - 25