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What Cellphone, (now Total Mobile), was one of the first
magazines in the UK dedicated to mobile phones and I was lucky enough to be
asked to write for it, virtually from issue one when it launched back in the
early nineties. Unfortunately my
current PC archive only begins in 1995 and it will be a while before I can find
and extract the earliest articles.
For some reason I rarely got my hands on the shiny new
phones that came in for review, instead, I became the accessories expert, which
wasn’t nearly so much fun, though I never went short of spare batteries,
chargers replacement aerials and cases. Over the years I must have seen
hundreds of them, sent to me for review and believe me, there is only so much
you can say about a cellphone case…
So much has changed since
those early days. My first cellphone, and
I still have it somewhere in the loft, was one of the famous house brick sized
models and all it could do was make phone calls, and it didn’t do that very
well, or for very long… My current mobile would fit comfortably in the old
phone’s battery compartment and it does a zillion other things besides making
and taking calls. We really have come a long way in a very short time…
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