Touch » history http://www.nearfield.org Interaction with RFID and NFC Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:38:14 +0000 en hourly 1 Early visualisations of cellular networks http://www.nearfield.org/2008/05/early-visualisations-of-cellular-networks http://www.nearfield.org/2008/05/early-visualisations-of-cellular-networks#comments Thu, 29 May 2008 12:30:09 +0000 Timo http://www.nearfield.org/?p=301 I happened to catch the American-centric documentary history of the mobile phone called The Cellphone Revolution yesterday.

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The most compelling content was the early visualisations of cellular networks, made by Motorola and AT&T at the time that they were trying to convince the FCC that mobile telephony was important.

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It also features rather nice footage and photos of early mobile phone prototypes from Motorola, that displayed many contemporary form factors such as sliders and flip-phones. Worth checking out that full article for a bit of emerging tech/design history.

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