Turns out mobile phones are really old (for some value of mobile): "In 1910 Lars Magnus Ericsson installed a telephone in his car, although this was not a radi

Turns out mobile phones are really old (for some value of mobile): "In 1910 Lars Magnus Ericsson installed a telephone in his car, although this was not a radio telephone. While travelling across the country, he would stop at a place where telephone lines were accessible and using a pair of long electric wires he could connect to the national telephone network." From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones