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To: Jane Long; Arthur McGowan

I had never heard about this before.

Here is a link to a Daily Mail story ... Is this a time-traveler in a Charlie Chaplin film? Footage from 1928 shows woman ‘using a mobile phone’:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1324132/Time-traveller-woman-mobile-phone-1928-Charlie-Chaplin-film.html#ixzz2hHeT2mOt


27 posted on 10/09/2013 7:51:44 PM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: DogByte6RER

Who would he be calling in 1928? Cell phone towers were pretty rare before 1990.


45 posted on 10/09/2013 8:14:17 PM PDT by DManA (t)
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To: DogByte6RER

Yeah, I have some problems with a 1920s cell phone. Like

How can she have service without cell towers?

How could she connect to an exchange using a digital tone pulse dialer?

And who is she talking to, another cell phone user? The Mothership?


80 posted on 10/10/2013 9:27:58 AM PDT by Justa
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