Is this the world's first cell phone? Film from 1938 shows a woman talking on a wireless device

Mailonline ^ | 3/31/2014 | Mailonline

[Dallas59]

The mystery of how a woman could have been filmed while using a modern cell phone back in 1938 seems to have finally been solved.

Black and white footage of a young female chatting into a wireless handset - said to have been filmed at a factory in the United States in the 30s - has attracted over 300,000 plays on YouTube.

[Rockpile]

Maybe that girl is just scratching an itch.

[Rockpile]

The first car phones descended from pre-war ship to shore phones I think and Bell brought out the first ones right after WW 2. The service was limited at first to the east and mid-West but oddly enough they had two towers out here in the oil patch —— Midland and Odessa. Well, maybe that is not so odd considering the dispersed nature of oil production operations.

[gura]

Umm, cell towers are .... where?

Don't interrupt the reality of the the liberal arts graduates of the past 20 years.

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

We’ve got the technology for something even better. I’m surprised we don’t have wrist phones on the market.

[trebb]

Wow - we’ve “progressed” to the point that we forgot about the walkie-talkies that naturally followed widespread radio use into the public market.

[urtax$@work]

well........ but TV came about much sooner than
i previously thought too. I read an old newspaper online
about an experiment using TV during an Atlantic crossing
of a steamship... i want to say sometime in the 30s.!?

[urtax$@work]

btw, looks like the dame is holding something the Fuller Brush man sold her.

[MosesKnows]

using a modern cell phone back in 1938

Is there no limit to gullibility?

In 1938, there was no packet switching, there were no cell towers, and the device had no antenna.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

LOL, my screen name should tell you, I'm always willing to listen to what yer' preaching, but even this one made me stop and ... what? That makes no sense!

The Liberal Arts Grad understanding of science can be summed up withe the phrase "....it's turtles, all the way down."

the infinite regress paradox.