From bricks to bendables: 40 years of Mobile Phones

Person holding an open foldable smartphone.
Title
From bricks to bendables: 40 years of Mobile Phones
Description
It’s been 40 years since the first mobile phones went on sale in the UK and the first networks to support them were built, and in the words of Ben Wood, founder of the Mobile Phone Museum and Chief Analyst at CCS Insight: “No other invention in recent memory has shaped how we live more fundamentally than the mobile phone.”
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Type
Blog
Date
2024
Subject
History of Technology
Digital History
Material Culture
Period
21st Century
20th Century
Geographical Area
World