30 years since

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30 Years Since First UK Mobile Phone Call

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The carphone weighed 5kg, was worth £4,500 and needed 10 hours of charging for 30 minutes of talk time - but who was on the call?

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The first ever mobile phone call was made in the UK 30 years ago today, marking the start of a communications revolution.

Using the Transportable Vodafone VT1, Michael Harrison telephoned his father - Vodafone's first chairman - on 1 January, 1985.

The carphone weighed 5kg (11lbs) and in today's money cost around £4,500. Ten hours of charging would provide half an hour of talk time.

Vodafone's former technical director Mike Pinches told Sky News: "I never envisaged where it would get to today but I'm very proud to have been involved in kick-starting it in the right direction.

Cont: http://news.sky.com/story/1400466/30-years-since-first-uk-mobile-phone-call
 
Who can credit i. We had 1 of the 1st out in 1989 (not the car phone type) which was like a brick and used by those in the building trade. We were called yuppie posers and many names. LOL. Look how far they have come
 
I can always remember crying with laughter when a girl (she was a right posh girlie who was always boasting etc) walked into Le Rendezous (or whatever it was called) with a 'mobile'...

I told her the pay phone on the wall was smaller. It went down well!

It was amazing though, big batter pack that connected to a brick...
 
I remember seeing one at HMS Raleigh, it was like a handset with a big battery attached and worked well if you were in shouting distance of the person you were calling.
 
Best use of a mobile I saw was when the phone rang in our pub and a bloke in the bog ordered a pint and some toilet paper.
 
It was also a requirement that the person on the mobile say at some point - "I'm in the car" (or "I'm on the bus").
 
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