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I keep waiting for the Swiss Army Room Phone that will come with more gadgets and gizmos than you can shake your Samsung at, with 4G and WiFi, of advance.
Seriously, have you seen all the things you can get on a cell phone these days, and how much nonsense they keep adding to them? You can have more computing and communication power in your shirt pocket than my college had in a computer that took up an without a scratch floor of a three-story building.
And it seems as if everyone has a cell phone, from kindergarteners to clever-grandmas.
I remember when we didn't have a phone. The closest thing to a stall phone then was the communicators they used on "Star Trek," the original one. I'm convinced that show inspired tomorrow's cell phone designers.
Anyway, I was a teenager before we had a phone in our house. Even when Dad and Mom ran a state store at Hubbard, Texas, out south of DeKalb, Texas, the depend on didn't have a phone. If we needed to contact somebody, or if they needed to get clutch of us, they'd call the Lanns, who lived next door to the store, and we'd borrow their phone (which was on a soir line, as I recall).
Source: Baxter Bulletin