Using a Cell Phone in 1985 - with David Pye
The first commercially available mobile phone went on sale in 1984 – and cost around $4000. In this clip from the 1985 CHRISTMAS LECTURES 'Communicating', David Pye demonstrates the power...
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Would you excuse me a moment I have a phone call to make and I left my phone in here It's a number that I've been calling quite a bit recently so it's programmed into the phone [PHONE RINGS] Find the phone under your seat there that's ringing Okay Would you like to press the orange button please If you take the call and then use it as an ordinary phone Hold it up to your ear Hello? Can you hear me on the phone? Quite clearly Good. Can you tell me your name please? Maxwell Charles Lovell Hoare Hello Maxwell. Have you ever used a cell phone before? No Well, they're really rather fun things What I'd like to do is to read you a couple of lines of poetry little bit at a time and ask you to read it back to me Okay? You understan...
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Would you excuse me a moment I have a phone call to make and I left my phone in here It's a number that I've been calling quite a bit recently so it's programmed into the phone [PHONE RINGS] Find the phone under your seat there that's ringing Okay Would you like to press the orange button please If you take the call and then use it as an ordinary phone Hold it up to your ear Hello? Can you hear me on the phone? Quite clearly Good. Can you tell me your name please? Maxwell Charles Lovell Hoare Hello Maxwell. Have you ever used a cell phone before? No Well, they're really rather fun things What I'd like to do is to read you a couple of lines of poetry little bit at a time and ask you to read it back to me Okay? You understan...
