For all you iPhone nuts, a reality check
June 24th, 2010 at 12:47 pm ET
For all you crazy people lined up for 5 hours in 95-degree heat to get your hands on an iPhone 4, because the iPhone 3GS you bought six months ago is now virtually a doorstop in your eyes, consider this: within my adult lifetime, portable phones weighed 17 pounds and came in a briefcase. (And, like, I’m not even that old.) And the only thing you could do with them was talk on the phone.
Nevermind that — the first cellphone I actually owned, which was very similar to the one changing the lives of the people in the video below, cost me 99 cents a minute to use — and everyone thought that was normal!
More retro phone porn here.
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by Edward Rutherfurd
by Ben Macintyre
