Mobile Phone In 1976 - First Demonstration By Blue Peter On The BBC !

[MI5]

Blue Peter 1976, first mobile telephone.

It'll never catch on

[MI5]

3 years later. 

Tomorrow's World: Mobile Phone 13 September 1979 

[TallTrees]

Heavy going @MI5
So funny 🙃

[Anonymous]

@MI5 

imagine having to carry a phone with a curled cable.

[MI5]

I guess you don't want one of these then?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Universal-Retro-Radiation-proof-Telephone-Handset-Headphones-for-Phone-Ca...

[TallTrees]

Good grief are they serious🥴

Give marks where due seems curious requirements catered for, can't complain.

[Cleoriff]

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@MI5 wrote:
I guess you don't want one of these then?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Universal-Retro-Radiation-proof-Telephone-Handset-Headphones-for-Phone-Ca...

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Lovely! You can get 10% off with multibuy!!

[TallTrees]

Hey should look "cool" at your 60s/70s week-end concert

bet you would be the only one there with that retro handset !

@Cleoriff 

[Mi-Amigo]

Thanks guys for the thread.

I used to sell these for BT in the 1980s:

[Connor98]

Does anyone happen to know the name of the phone from the 1976 episode and whether it became publicly available? Trying to do some research. Thanks!