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World’s First Mobile Phone (1922)

World’s First Mobile Phone (1922). Found by a researcher in the Pathe vaults, this clip from 1922 shows that 90 years ago, mobile phone technology and music on the move was not only being thought of but being trialled. Reported in the Daily Telegraph, May 2010. We wrote the following blog post with links to [...]

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WHO Finding Adds to Debate Over Mobile Phones, Brain Cancer

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http The World Health Organization has added to the debate over the risk of brain cancer from mobile phone use. The WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer recently listed the signals from wireless devices as “possibly carcinogenic.” This finding puts cell phones in [...]

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Mobile Phones May Soon Test for STIs and Blood Pressure

I’m Alex Villarreal with the VOA Special English Technology Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http Mobile phone technology is quickly changing the way the world operates. Today, we tell about two new projects involving mobile health, also known as m-health. Doctors and technology experts in London are developing a new way to test for sexual infections. [...]

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A Brief History of the Mobile Phone

The mobile phone, also known as cellular phone, has become one of the most successful inventions in the 20th century. In the late 90s, mobile phones became one of the major communication devices. The first commercial mobile phone system started in 1979 in Japan. According to Cellular Online, the global mobile phone subscribers in 2003 [...]

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