The mobile phone will be obsolete in 40 years

Dan Worth
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Forty years in the future will the mobile phone as we know it still exist, asks V3 news editor Dan Worth

It was 40 years ago today that Motorola showed the world what it meant to be mobile. The work of engineers at the firm to deliver the DynaTAC has had a profound impact on the world, utterly cha...

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