WOW!!! And those mobile phones reminds me of the size of my fathers Motorola 2600 that he had at the time, very useful for hitting
aggressive people on the train with, perfect way you launch revenge, should they try to slam the door in your face, swing round then "BOP", "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOUCCCCCCCCCCHHHHH!!!". That thing was bloody heavy, but even a 3 - 9 year old like me at the time could carry the phone that came as car phone and some lead acid battries! Oh to make matters worse, it hada power raiting of 10MW transmission, meaning that it worked almost anywhere, including deep in the "Louve", the French security guards I think he said, were joking about that thing ringing, probably the words were "That'll never work in here", "you're right there", "wouldn't it be funny if it rang", "thats if it did", "hahahahaha", that was until it rang, where theirs didn't, so the joke is on them!
Now ever since I saw the first mobile phone, probably the only one in the area, I have one that is tiny. Its like that motorola that has been washed for the last 10 years in cold water, then somehow shrunk to about 1/50th of its size!
My mobile I can literly wrap my hands around it and my hands cover the entire surface!
(when closed of course!
).
Oh and I can remember when 286's were the cutting edge technology at the time, it was like the best thing going!
Oh, that article, you do realise it was made 5 months and 7 days before I was born?
Edited by Wessex_nut 2005-09-05 6:59 AM
Truly amazing ... 
Then we got that cellular one phone, which worked in the woods! My current one cannot do that, and there are many more antennas out there now! My guess for this is that they used analog signal, not digital, and had a much larger range. Takes up a lot more power, though. For all of those people that think they can hang up on someone by making scratching noises, they are not thinking properly, because a digital signal will not make those sounds while disconnecting! It will just be lost! 