Tomorrow's World: Mobile Phone 13 September 1979 - BBC

[uthmansaad]

كل مايريد الانسان معرفته يجده في bbc وبافضل مونتاج واخراج وافضل صوره , bbc ام الترفيه والمعرفه في هذا العالم...ksa

[Singularity2025]

@uthmansaad أنت لطيف جدا!

[Singularity2025]

@Singularity2025 I used Google translate! (darn clever eh?)

[rapidrolf]

typical...the british invent it and the foreigner take advantage of it and flood the market, just like clive sinclairs pocket calculators

[6Buckaroo]

where do i put my apps

[BBC600]

That is my dream mobile phone!

[properelectro]

Because the home office wouldn't free any bandwidth for mobile phones we had to wait a decade for the first mobiles. We can't have mobile digital TV's because we have to pay a liscense fee. Japan managed it and launched the first mobile in 1979

[freddielaker2]

So we British came up with it first did we? So why didn't we beat Nokia into making handsets? Bugger!

[rapidrolf]

@freddielaker2 because pillocks at the goverment and home office at the time were so far up their own asses they thought it was a stupid idea and would never take off and also would not invest in it....oh how wrong they were

[TK42138]

It's Alan Partridge!

[paulsu27]

Farting noise..... a dialing tone, lol

[stephenchucky]

i want one!

[UncleFeedle]

A mobile with a dial would be the coolest retro phone ever.

[Jexington80]

HOW COOL IS THAT!!! I can't wait till they bring mobile phones out.

[LinuxManUK]

Michael Rodd and a Yaesu FT 202 -R - Michael Rodd is excellent.

[senat06]

much more information at a very interesting website ** postika**.biz **

[richardburns1560]

Thank you for watching: where the TROUBLE started of all stress life's these day's.

[126Oli]

2011.

Still no flying cars...

[benthejrporter]

"Unique mobile handset"? My arse! Where's the app showing me the films at Chelmsford cinema? I don't want it. It's too big and ugly anyway! It would be embarassing to show to my friends.

[05Rudey]

I'd love to walk into starbucks and sit next to a person who is using a iPad and iPhone and fire this baby up!!! Along with an Osborne-1 portable computer shaking everyones coffee on the table.. Ha ha ha.

[HansMartin132]

But wil it blend?

[1100HondaCB]

Whoever invented the mobile should have been drowned at birth. If only that cunt knew the turmoil he/she would inevitably cause for future generations. Mobiles are anti-social in the sense when one is conversing with another and their phone rings, then a pleasant conversation is cut short in favour of the telephone. Also when I am in a public place, someone's phone rings and the whole world soon has no option but to listen. People have also been killed on the roads as a result of the mobile.

[fogster31]

@1100HondaCB ha cock



[ucheucheuche]

1979

Wow, Tomorrow's World ahead of their time!

2009

We've only just got this handset with bluetooth recently:

youtube.com/watch?v=FR_2dnBEap­M

2011

(Smiley Face)

[jimmyass]

oh if they saw what you could do on a phone to day....

[TheKenfig]

Where was the lead going ; up his ass ?

[senorleemond]

broadcast 32 years ago today!!!! The day before my 9th birthday!! Didn't get a mobile phone as a present though!

[3Deity]

@senorleemond If you had got this, you'd be a mutated zombie from the 9,000,000 RADs per second it probably emitted! :o)

[andygin]

UK invents everything but ! nothing more to say ! x

[Wolfington]

I bet texting was complicated on that.

[Cool2BCeltic]

Looks very primitive and cumbersome but was the start of something.

[swandike]

wow..a mobile phone...7 good miles away

[MOONST0MP]

Wow thats amazing!! How does it work??

[sosadman1]

There you have it; it was the Home office that prevented the UK from getting a head start in this technology as Michael Rodd said it was the export customers who profited first. I remember this episode genuine British cutting edge technology sold out by a bunch of Whitehall bureaucrats

[NeilinnesOrg]

Haha think of 1979 people going OH MY GOD HE LEFT THE ROOM AND HE'S STILL ON THE PHONE!!!

[superhamzah85]

If my iPhone was that size, I'd be able to teleport.

[superhamzah85]

I first saw this on my iPhone.

I just realised how funny that was.

[24950938]

Ash tray on the office desk! That REALLY dates it!

[matilda1978]

cool van, man

[irishgeoff1]

I just found a really cool cell phone jammer. google :- yapper zapper

[playgirlc]

how do i download my apps onto it?

[redbear66]

Good grief, what is the man wearing? Look at the size of his lapels! Look at his shirt collars, and that tie! It's like being hypnotically regressed back to childhood. Gotta love that 70's fashion it's so surrealistic. I honestly do like it, it's like a constant, vague nudging at my consciousness that something is not quite right about so called reality, that there is an infinite plenum void of mystery just beyond ordinary vision. I want that jacket.

[JackFSinging]

Lol I have one of those phones at 0:06

[MrLesliegreen]

Great to watch this now and to think back to 1979! Who would have thought that the size of the mobiles would be so small A great piece of ARCHIVE Television.

Thank You.What happened to the hand set Is it in a museum?

[eXPerienceyeah]

MABAP BAP MABAP BAP MABAP BAP MABAP BAP MABAP BAP MABAP BAP MABAP BAP MABAP BAP MABAP BAP MABAP BAP MABAP BAP MABAP BAP MABAP BAP MABAP BAP MABAP BAP MABAP BAP 

[Jarren202]

The papers he was looking for...

Did he find them?

[irishgeoff1]

google:- the yapper zapper. Its a very cool mini cell phone jammer

[MrTUCTUC1]

Really strange through that they gave the mobile used a dial rather than push-button. I'm fairly sure that push-button was available in the UK y then (even if most phones were dial) so why they put a dial on such a (then) futureistic product is a mystery.

[digitalbroadcaster]

Whatever next? Music players the size of a matchbox?! Ha! I think not! 

[Desullen]

Man, these "THE NEXT 20 YEARS" programmes always make shit up. This will never be big, and you're a fool if you think so.

[neogeo53]

A mobile phone what next!

[DaddysBigTummy]

Glad they invented push buttons. Imagine sending a text on a rotary dialler.

[richardmcboingboing]

@DaddysBigTummy imagine the car crashes



[spencababy911]

@DaddysBigTummy Glad they invented text, cus who wants to call people on a phone?

[thepixeldust]

Tænk hvis den opfindelse var blevet til noget?? vildt!

[heckmacbuff]

Good to hear that the Government was looking after UK interests, just think what a waste of time and money it would have been to develop such an idiotic technology as a 'mobile telephone'.

[thefriendpeter]

at 5mins "so although british technology exists here and now for a true walkabout phone, the chances are very strong that it'll be our export customers who benefit long before we do". Bloody typically always been the way. UK invents, and then have to see it developed by other countries and we don't get the wealth generated by it!

[GrumpyL5]

@thefriendpeter Yeh, just typical. Just like the high speed tilting trains. Poor BR got slated because it spilt some soup on some miserable journalists and politicians wouldn't fund it. Now we have to buy them from abroad!

[meatisdeliciouse]

It's funnt, all these inventions are alway much older than people really think. Did you know that the internet hase been aroun since the 50's? Compiters are also one that are much older than people thiink.

[2002ibiza]

The good old days. We had an early protoype video recorder at school that was as big as a house and teachers still had control in the classroom

[heind1993]

5:58 - Prank calls lol

[Johnnn41]

amazing!

[ilikefishish]

so thats the git who keeps calling me from danbury park!!

[xirtlu]

Awesome, he was all casual with the mobile, just like everyone today.

[shortandbald]

i want one

[meatisdeliciouse]

@shortandbald me too.( :

[steveuk17]

Am I correct in thinking that these early 70s prototypes were actually powered by static electricity caused by the friction from flared trouser legs rubbing together as you walked ??

The next version integrated the battery behind kipper ties for convenience.

[adwan]

i so want one of these

[BetterThanMan]

he's in the motherland!

[0neofthem]

who here would trade an iphone for this

[jonnyd89]

@0neofthem no one

[rajithaify]

@0neofthem i would!

[jaimwah]

Better than an Iphone

[Phlogiston2312]

Did her ever find the papers??

[tryptychUK]

The summary says it all really. We developed the technology way ahead of everyone else, yet the Post Office (Now BT), and the Home Office constantly dig their heels in and stop it all happening, and it's still going on today, 30 years later. We still haven't unbundled the local loops, and you cannot get internet unless you have a BT line. Pathetic.

[chutchybo]

cool, i rem watching this an thinking i'll never have 1 of these...lol

[TheLaurieBergShow]

This is wicked! Can't wait until my next upgrade!

[TheTenada]

Ooooo I want one

[Feisty1967]

Can't understand the negative comments to this video, you all obviously know something that I'm not aware of. Maybe I'm thick.

[Feisty1967]

This was the start of the mobile phones network!!

[Envergure]

Maybe in the next episode they can tell us about de-essing.

[richarevans1]

Brillaint item about a cutting edge technology. The BC should hang it's head in shame that the likes of Michael Rod, William Woolard, Raymond Baxter, Judith Hann would never be allowed to present on the BBC today.

[BlackGoldEstates]

vhf by the looks of the length of the antenna

[BlackGoldEstates]

vhf by the looks of the length of the antenna

[humaxf1]

VHF. UHF? Was he pressing a PTT on the handset?

[HurrikaneManagement]

Wo! I've got to get me one of them! This shit is the future!

[frbe0101]

They were worried about wasting airwaves back then???

[fluro2829]

WOW That's amazing... just imagine if this device caught on and in 30 years time people are using miniature hand held telephones with colour screens and sophisticated extras such as 'texting' from a QUERTY keyboard... I bet some audacious company would even dare to claim that he'd be able to take your picture too... Wild I know, but I have one hell of an imagination!

[grendelee]

They left out the part where he sends the first sext.

[Forestamtul]

Early mobile phones in the late 70s they have come a long way since then.

[Forestamtul]

Early mobile phones in the late 70s

[LHunterO78]

now, we have a cell phone

[oscarcanterbury]

Is that tie made of wood?

[mandyland76]

I can't wait till they bring them out! I'll be the first to get one (even though I am only 3 in 1979 hahah)

[sirtinycreep]

Great old footage.

[GRAHAMAUS]

This isn't really a modern mobile (cell) phone, it's an add-on accessory for a standard radiotelephone, which in 1979 would still have been useful. I worked for a company at the time making similar radios and these add-ons were being researched. However, as stated it looked as though it would be held back through lack of legislation/regulation so it wasn't pursued. But a white paper giving the go-ahead for cell-based networks was only a few years in coming which was really a lot more advanced.

[kezadrone]

A land line would have been so funny. He's talking and as the cable stretches it trips up tea ladies and eventually snaps cutting him off.

[qkcxv]

Ahh man, Id love to get me a "walkabout phone" I hate being plugged into the wall :)

[Scruffmuck]

And yet another british invention of which the powers that be could not see the potential .

[BMWACP]

@Scruffmuck The same happened with the Colossus computer... the britsh government kept it quiet, while the americans announced th ENIAC and moved on.

[imagos]

They'll never catch on i'm sure of that!

[BlackGoldEstates]

@imagos yeah especially if the postoffice arent interested

[donniedarkodevotte]

@imagos

I wish to hell that they hadn't. Maybe then I'd be able to see a movie or eat in a restaurant in peace.

[Dranod]

Good old analog radio - nice and easy to listen in on.

[alanheath]

Fascinating!

[yz25098uk]

dont waste the air waves!!

quality.

bring back raymond baxter!!



[dtraisin]

If it takes longer than 3 minutes, it gets cut off lmao

[saundersd]

Will it support Apps? or wireless fidelitiy?

[bladam]

stupid homeoffice, you're so stupid.

[wildone106]

What are these 'd-i-g-i-t-a-l-' pulses you speak of?!!

[emelianenkoo]

lol class

[rodeoban12]

it awesome! even tho its 31 years old!

[jacksawild]

my uncle had one of those, and an extra one for the car for some reason. If someone had told Micahel Rodd that one day there would be phones that take pictures he'd have beaten them to death with the battery for being a lunatic.

[zx1011]

i love my walkabout fone

[dickbob0]

Better reception than 3 mobile

[TheBeelist]

Oh my days. He so needs an upgrade!

[XXdriver2000XX]

That phone is badass lol

[meatisdeliciouse]

SO cool, I want one, little did they know that they would be billions sold.

[MrlabelessVideos]

It annoys me on the other hand that because as usual we dont fund new ideas that we invent, other countries with big budgets and investment patent it first and bring it to market. idiots, that was another wasted opportunity like the advent of the internet invented by a British bloke. Duh! ..

[MrlabelessVideos]

This video is so funny, and is just asking for a sketch to be written about it. I can't believe that he had a landlind handset connected to a radio that a trucker in America uses to demonstrate it was an early mobile prototype! lol

[Chappers1967]

Partridgesque

[grant22310]

if i was in the 80's i'd be amazing

[ECTBWHO]

This is a repost....

[DuckOfDestiny]

I wonder if they ever predicted that we'd have Mobile phones which could send text messages, access the internet, play music, play videos, play video games, use a touch screen interface etc. and still be small enough to fit in your pocket

[JMietser]

well obviously not other wise they would of said that in the video......

[MalcolmsonStudios]

Such A Good Prediction!