RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted May 26, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 26, 2010 My wife asked me to choose a new mobile phone for her (too busy to shop for it herself!) but I'm not sure she would want this one. Mobile Phone Tony (When I tried to use the embed code supplied on the British Pathe webpage with the Insert Media button on RMweb I got a message about Iframes not being supported on my browser. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted May 26, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 26, 2010 My wife asked me to choose a new mobile phone for her (too busy to shop for it herself!) but I'm not sure she would want this one. Mobile Phone Tony Winding the antenna round the fire hydrant in a storm does make the kit look a little less friendly than some! Wot a corker! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giz Posted May 26, 2010 Share Posted May 26, 2010 That actually looks smaller than my first company mobile phone. It was about the size of a briefcase and took up the front passenger seat of my car. At least I didn't have to wind the ariel around anything! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted May 26, 2010 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 26, 2010 I suspect the umbrella is the aerial and the fire hydrant is for earth. I remember that my wife's first mobile had a standby time of 8 hours and sometimes required considerable agility to make a connection. Once she rang from rural Essex and the (analogue) signal was poor, so I asked where she was and apparently she was up a hill standing on the roof of a minibus. This year we were in on holiday in Vermont and you could tell where there was a signal in the hotel grounds as that was where everyone seemed to phone from. It never occurred to me before going to the US that mobile coverage wasn't quite as comprehensive as in SE England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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