Smartphones were invented by 1963
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Well, no. Smartphones are pocket computers with a phone app on them. Cell phones, in general, had begun to be invented by 1963. They became commercially available 20 years later, in 1983.
working device. tv phone, recorder... that is what they SHOWED.
took 40+ more years for them to ALLOW mass adoption.
for more than just truckers and wall street fags.
I did read the damn thing. Do you know what a "device" is? It's any invention. A can opener is a device.
This particular 1963 phone was a working laboratory prototype of a basic wireless cell phone. The stuff about "visual image televisions" was hypothetical.
There's stuff just like this, right now. Driverless cars have been outperforming human drivers for more than a decade now. But they haven't seen widespread adoption. Why? Because even though THEY want to sell them to the public, there's another THEY that doesn't want them messing up their existing business models, and a third THEY that wants to make it illegal for them to exist until they can show that they cause practically zero fatalities, and a fourth THEY that is just blocs of people who vote against driverless cars because they're scared of them.
It takes a long time to get all of the THEYs on the same page. In the case of cell phones, the technology existed in 1963, but THEY still had to put towers up all over the country or else the phones wouldn't have anything to connect with. And THEY had to find the money to invest in putting the towers up. And THEY had to acquire the land for the towers. And THEY had to pass laws that would allow the whole network to exist. And THEY wanted to study whether these radio signals would coexist politely with existing military and civilian radio tech before those laws could be passed.
If you're going by predictions... tesla invented all this.
and he saw it all being powered for free.
Yes. Tesla was ahead of his time. He described the future cell (mobile) phone in a interview to a magazine in 1926:
"When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket." - Nikola Tesla, 1926
the newspaper article is more of an on purpose "leak".
probably 100 or 1,000 guys using tesla coil generators now.
maybe 10,000?
everyone is. wireless charging.
same concept but tesla was going to power the world with it. (ppl) didn't like that part.
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they release new tech when they damn well feel like it.
(by the 1940s some truckers, cops, and rich already had mobile radio phones)
Having the technology and a working prototype comes well before widespread commercial availability. Early systems will be very expensive and have limited applications due to cost. Over time, the technology matures, it becomes readily accessible to many. Setting up the efficiency and supply chains for mass production is a big challenge in itself.
"There is nothing new under the sun."
Apple HomeView, Amazon Echo, Google Nest Hub, and Meta Portal.
That was a mobile, not a smart phone. Dumbass.