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Not a bad little prediction of the cell phone as envisioned by AT&T's Harold S. Osborne in 1952.  You've got your compact design, your two-way video link, and your world-wide network.

Now if they could only do something about those buttons that look like they came off a 1956 Plymouth's gearbox.

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