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  2. Things Boomers Took for Granted That are Obsolete Now

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    Rotary Telephones. 1919-1975 Although Bell developed a primitive version in 1950, it took until 1975 for push button phones to make an impact. ... The arrival of the two-way cell phone quickly ...

  3. Mobile phone accessories - Wikipedia

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    These, in combination with a compatible SD card, can be used to transfer files from one device to another, or simply to increase the storage capacity of the phone. Wi-Fi SDs are Wi-Fi communication devices on a special SD card inserted into the SD card slot. They can move pictures to a local computer or an online photo-sharing service.

  4. History of mobile phones - Wikipedia

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    A satellite phone is a type of mobile phone that connects to other phones or the telephone network by radio link through satellites orbiting the Earth instead of terrestrial cell sites, as cellphones do. Therefore, they can work in most geographic locations on the Earth's surface, as long as open sky and the line-of-sight between the phone and ...

  5. Portal:Telephones - Wikipedia

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    A smartphone, often simply called a phone, is a mobile device that combines the functionality of a traditional mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities. It typically has a touchscreen interface, allowing users to access a wide range of applications and services, such as web browsing , email , and social media , as well as multimedia ...

  6. Telephone - Wikipedia

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    An old rotary dial telephone AT&T push button telephone made by Western Electric, model 2500 DMG black, 1980. A telephone, colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that enables two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly.

  7. Camera phone - Wikipedia

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    However, it could not send the resulting image over the telephone function, but required a computer connection to access photos. [108] The first mass-market camera phone was the J-SH04, a Sharp J-Phone model sold in Japan in November 2000. [109] [108] It could instantly transmit pictures via cell phone telecommunication. [110]

  8. Rotary dial - Wikipedia

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    A 1931 Ericsson rotary dial telephone without lettering on the finger wheel, typical of European telephones. The 0 precedes 1. A rotary dial typically features a circular construction. The shaft that actuates the mechanical switching mechanism is driven by the finger wheel, a disk that has ten finger holes aligned close to the circumference.

  9. Telephone keypad - Wikipedia

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    A mobile phone keypad with Latin and Japanese characters. In the course of telephone history, dials as well as keypads have been associated with various mappings of letters and characters to numbers. The system used in Denmark [failed verification] was different from that used in the UK, which, in turn, was different from the US and Australia. [10]