Cell phone is 30 years old today!

[Pam]

On this day in 1973 -- on April 3 of that year -- a man did something no one had ever done before.

You may bless him for it or curse him for it. At this juncture, it hardly matters. The impact of what he did is so enormous that judging it now is almost beside the point.

The man's name was Martin Cooper. He was 44 at the time.

He made a cell phone call.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/04/01/g ... tml?hpt=C1

Unreal...... I still remember what those first ones looked like, you certainly couldn't slip them into your pants pocket

[TraumaT]

Unreal...... I still remember what those first ones looked like, you certainly couldn't slip them into your pants pocket

I would kill to get my old Nokia back right now. The new IDIOT one has about 50,000 functions and buttons and thingys I will NEVER EVER use for as long as I live, and doing a simple thing like setting the alarm clock is impossible.

Damn you to hell, Nokia. I am buying an alarm clock tomorrow. An old fashioned one.

[Egg]

Yeah, the last phone I bought I asked for the simplest one they had. I have a camera, I have an ipod. Things meant to simplify rarely do.

[Snow Crash]

I would kill to get my old Nokia back right now. The new IDIOT one has about 50,000 functions and buttons and thingys I will NEVER EVER use for as long as I live, and doing a simple thing like setting the alarm clock is impossible.

Damn you to hell, Nokia. I am buying an alarm clock tomorrow. An old fashioned one.

Nokia 6310i - BEST PHONE EVER.

[Egg]

Are those the little bar phones?

[Snow Crash]

Are those the little bar phones?

[Pigeon]

Getting a forbidden from the server on that nokia pic.

See you changed it.

[Snow Crash]

Getting a forbidden from the server on that nokia pic.

The first one I put up came up wiht the red x, so I changed it. is it cool now?

[Egg]

They're on to us!!!

[Pigeon]

I can here then now

"Don't let the public see pics of the old phones. They will expect decent product for their money again."