The first ever smartphone?

[opus]

I saw this won on Body Language on Buzzr, so circa mid ‘80s. The first time you could watch TV on your phone?

https://www.mediapollution.tv/produc...uasar-ap1495yh

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by opus

I saw this won on Body Language on Buzzr, so circa mid ‘80s. The first time you could watch TV on your phone?

https://www.mediapollution.tv/produc...uasar-ap1495yh


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WELL ........ Crossing a Telephone With a TV Set in 1968

The 1968 ad below depends on expensive infrastructure that hindered the widespread, pre-internet adoption of videophone technology. Produced for Western Electric, the ad can be found in the book [B[The Golden Age of Advertising: The 60s.[/B]

(see ad in link)
https://paleofuture.com/blog/2011/8/...t-in-1968.html




First, you needed to own a videophone (more commonly called a “picturephone” in the 1970s) and not only were the devices expensive, the cost of a call was quite spendy as well.

From the 1950s until the early 1970s, Bell Labs (formerly owned by AT&T) spent over $500 million on research and development for videophone technology. The design of Bell’s videophone saw different iterations in the mid-1960s, but by 1968 they had developed the Mod II, which is the model that will go up for auction at Bonhams on March 12, 2019.

https://paleofuture.com/blog/2019/3/...ion-this-month

[opus]

Originally Posted by Foggy

WELL ........ Crossing a Telephone With a TV Set in 1968

The 1968 ad below depends on expensive infrastructure that hindered the widespread, pre-internet adoption of videophone technology. Produced for Western Electric, the ad can be found in the book [B[The Golden Age of Advertising: The 60s.[/B]

(see ad in link)
https://paleofuture.com/blog/2011/8/...t-in-1968.html




First, you needed to own a videophone (more commonly called a “picturephone” in the 1970s) and not only were the devices expensive, the cost of a call was quite spendy as well.

From the 1950s until the early 1970s, Bell Labs (formerly owned by AT&T) spent over $500 million on research and development for videophone technology. The design of Bell’s videophone saw different iterations in the mid-1960s, but by 1968 they had developed the Mod II, which is the model that will go up for auction at Bonhams on March 12, 2019.

https://paleofuture.com/blog/2019/3/...ion-this-month

That looks more like a first Skype/Zoom/FaceTime type of situation, where you see who you’re talking to. On the thing they won on the game show you could actually watch TV shows.

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by opus

That looks more like a first Skype/Zoom/FaceTime type of situation, where you see who you’re talking to. On the thing they won on the game show you could actually watch TV shows.

I believe you are RIGHT!

I remember seeing a film back in the 60's,
when I was in grade school,
that had the picturephone in it.

[Dude111]

Hmmmmmmm I hadnt ever seen anything like that!!

[opus]

Originally Posted by Foggy

I believe you are RIGHT!

I remember seeing a film back in the 60's,
when I was in grade school,
that had the picturephone in it.

I thought it was funny thinking of someone in the ‘80s being all excited because they could watch TV shows and movies on their phone.

[Dude111]

I would love getting that Opus!!

[icecream]

The first ever smartphone came in 1965. Don Adams operated it.

[Dude111]

Ah man!!