It was quite a surprise this weekend when an Ohio woman answered the knock at her door and discovered Barak Obama standing on her porch! She rushed to get her camera. . .no wait. It wasn't her camera. It was her cell phone. In 2008 the primary use of cell phones is to do everything but call!
Today marks the 25th anniversary (sorry Chris--no Columbus Day tie in)
of the first cell-phone connection. It was a media event in Chicago when the president of Ameritech Mobile Communictions made the first commercial cell-phone connect. He called Alexander Graham Bell's grandson on a handset that weighed 2-1/2 pounds and sold for $3,995. (Ameritech was absorbed into what are now AT&T and Verizon Wireless.)
This year we sent more text messages on cells than we made calls.
Up next? You'll be talking to family and friends while watching a video of them at the same time, taking photos of Barak or whomever in higher resolution and browse the Internet faster than your computer with its DSL connection.
Smile for the camera!
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