Monday 8 April 2013

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Molly The Wally & Her Molly Mobile!

It has now been 40 years since the first mobile phone call was made when Motorola engineer Martin Cooper rang from a cell phone in New York. The device was almost 23cm tall and weighed more than one kilogram. It contained 30 circuit boards, had a talk-time of 35 minutes and took 10 hours to recharge. How times have changed. So we say Happy 40th Birthday to the mobile and we re-live some blasts from the past in tribute.   

A very early mobile phone?


Or maybe this was?


The early cell phone!


The first phone lock, keeping your phone safe from thieves?


Phone security!


A bygone era!



The alternative use , a zombie smasher!


Early portable!


Then the phone became a camera!


And lastly hands free!



Happy 40th Birthday Mobile Phone!

45 comments:

  1. Happy Birthday, Mobile Phone. We have an old prepaid phone............somewhere.

    xXXOOO Daisy, Bella & Roxy

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  2. 40 years, wow.. I remember having a house brick as my first mobile phone..Have a wonderful Monday xx00xx

    Mollie and Alfie

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  3. Pretty soon it will just be a chip in our heads!

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  4. HAS IT BEEN THAT LONG? And has it been 40 years since I was a 15 year old? NO WAY!!!!!

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  5. Hmmm interesting lately I do think people are a little too obsessed with their phones but these ides seem a little crazy

    urban hounds

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  6. Mom says "thanks" for the trip down cell phone memory lane!
    Wally & Sammy

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  7. First it was huge and chunky, then they kept making smaller and smaller and now it's getting bigger and bigger. What's next!?

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  8. Happy 40th b-day to the cell phone. Mom said she remember the first one my sis had. It looked like a small piece of luggage.
    Hugs madi your BFFF
    PS I love your picture.

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  9. Too funny! Our first cell phone was in a huge and heavy bag. Glad we avoided some of these other 'beauties'.

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  10. My Dad had one of those huge heavy car phones. It's amazing to see how small and powerful they have become.

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  11. LOL those are funny! I do remember the mobile phones of the 80's. It is amazing how far they have come. Before phones, everyone had pagers. IIRC there was a whole pager code.

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  12. Happy birthday phone! Lee and Phod whose lady loves her phone!

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  13. You are by far the funniest dog in Blogville! Love Dolly

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  14. Those are some very unique phones sweet Molly!

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  15. Haha, my mom said she remembered her first mobile which was black and HUGE!

    ~Eva

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  16. Hi Molly,Love the4 hands free, I can remember those early ones, you had to train at the gym every day so you could left one to make a call!

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  17. geeze mom says she remembers that one phone just to show you how old she is!!! have a great monday!
    stella rose

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  18. Oh it has come along way indeed.
    Blessings,
    Goose

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  19. Has it really been 40 years? Yikes. I like the zombie smasher best. Have a great Monday Molly!!!

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  20. Thank goodness for a cell phone. Some of those other ones look a bit uncomfortable
    Benny & Lily

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  21. Wowsers....thank you fur making Mom feel even older! Her said she remembers her furst "mobile phone". It was a car phone and the only thing "mobile" about it was that it was always attached to the car. If you weren't "mobile" yourself, the phone was useless!

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  22. I can't remember before cell phones.

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  23. Who needs a mobile phone ? Us doggies have had the twilight bark for years! *wag wag wag*

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  24. I remember my first mobile i had to workout at the Gym so i could carry it around, it was the size of a house brick.

    Sheba.

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  25. Ha Ha Mom remembers the grandpa phone!!

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  26. My mom wants your sunglasses...I must admit they are snazzy! And your post gave my mom some ideas for her cell phone (she has to put it up so I dont get to it first when it rings). BOL!

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  27. Those are so funny! I especially love the ones with the Nokia brick phone. That thing was damn near indestructible!

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  28. LOL and they still kept changing!! Now they have cell phones with windows operating systems! What will be next?

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  29. Mom was saying she used to think spending $15 a month on the cell was expensive. Now she spends lots of green papers!

    Your Pals,

    Murphy & Stanley

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  30. BOL happy birthday phones!! I love the pictures BOL, mummy doesn't have a phone at the minute cause someone (not mentioning names) broked it, opps hehe
    Love Milo :)

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  31. Haha! I remember the first time I ever saw a cell phone was probably 20 years ago on Saved By the Bell! The Zack Morris cell phone! :)

    Elyse and Riley

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  32. Hey Molly!
    Wow, this is toooo funny! My Mom just bought a new cell phone...her first since 1996! Her old one looked almost exactly like your Nokia camera one. Gee it was ancient. Her account is so old that it took a manager to add voice mail to it because it wasn't an option waaaaay back then. BOL These are really funny pix. Love the guy with the phone strapped to his head. BWAR HAR HAR
    Grr and Woof,
    Sarge, COP

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  33. How fun -Mom doesn't think she ever saw a cell phone until the 1990's and she didn't have one until the day after 9/11 when our Dad was stuck in NYC and she couldn't reach him. She wonders now how she ever lived without one:)

    Woos - Phantom, Thunder, Ciara, and Lightning

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  34. We think Dad still has a zombie smasher!

    The Mad Scots

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  35. 40 years already? Seriously? That's almost as old as our human. We didn't know the technology was that old, actually!

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  36. I still remember the first one I saw...it was in a suitcase and weighed about as much as a concrete block...Then there were the folks who'd stick a corded received in the console between the front seats and then "talk" on it while driving to impress the girls...Seems like forever ago doesn't it

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  37. Can't believe it's been 40 yrs already!

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  38. Oh, now I REALLY feel old. I remember rotary dial phones that were hardwired into the wall. One thing I love about you dogs is that you don't need any of that stuff. :-)

    Susan and Wrigs

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  39. Mom can't believe that it's been 40 years already! She's beginning to feel OLD!

    Love ya lots,
    Mitch and Molly

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  40. We have come a long way!

    Loveys Sasha

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  41. Great pics as always Molly!!

    My Mum says she remembers big mobile phones, but swears it wasn't from 40 years ago when she saw one as she isn't that old - yeah right! Tee Hee

    Big wags,

    Your pal Snoopy :)

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  42. BOL! I love that hands-free system!

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  43. Lol! Love the early portable!

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