Off-beat: the first phone call in the world happened 140 years ago this week

Without Alexander Graham Bell, you would not be sitting at your computer or with your phone reading Pocketnow.com.It was 140 years ago yesterday that the Scottish luminary made the very first phone call from an office in downtown Boston, telling his assistant Thomas Watson:Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you.But from the start, it took a community of wits, craft and a willing investor to pull it all together and make sounds like the one below possible.After moving to Canada for fear of the tuberculosis that killed his two brothers, Bell found a calling from his father, who taught ...

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This week in mobile history: Windows 95 on iOS, PureView comparisons, and eFuse controversy

The mobile world moves quickly – probably faster than just about any other industry in the world.New devices are announced on what feels like a weekly basis; perpetual software updates are hitting for the hundreds of mobile devices; one-off press events are always happening; and while phones seem to have a longer life span than they did back in, say 2010, they still become antiques in what feels like no time.Back in September, I went on a nostalgia binge and did a throwback review for one of my favorite mobile devices of all time: the BlackBerry Curve 8330. Looking back, it’s crazy ...

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