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Stephen Fry On The Phone The Complete Radio 4 Series
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
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Summary
Stephen Fry traces the evolution of the mobile phone, from hefty executive bricks that required a separate briefcase to carry the battery, to the smartphones available today. There are more mobile phones in the world than there are people on the planet. Stephen Fry talks to the backroom boys who made it all possible, and here’s how the technology succeeded in ways that the geeks had not necessarily intended. For example, the engineers who designed the early texting facilities didn’t imagine that anyone might want to reply. (Just in case, they added a short list of possible pre-set answers: yes, no, and maybe).
They also thought taxifones and fax machines for your car would be winners. In the early 90s, Nokia, then famous for toilet paper and rubber boots, was on the brink of collapse; until the new CEO made a bold decision to focus solely on mobile phones…. Thanks to Margaret Thatcher opening up the airwaves, Britain became a world leader in mobile phone technology. And today, 85% of the silicon chips inside all mobiles are designed by just one Cambridge-based company. Series produced by Anna Buckley.
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- mickle
- 19-06-24
How short it was
When it was described as the complete series, I never would have imagined it to be such a brief podcast, given that I paid as much as a book for it. Very disappointing value for money.
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- Amazon Customer
- 25-06-24
Short and maybe a bit biased?
Initial episodes are ok but when we moved into the smartphone era, despite being published in 2011 there is no mention of Symbian, Windows Mobile, Android etc, just Apple. Very short series also.
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