It seems that most recently with the word “telephone” we only imagined the apparatus on the table hanging on the wall or in a special booth on the street. But times have changed a lot, and now almost everyone is happy with the presence of an electronic device, which is most often called just a mobile phone. There is no such device unless in the dense taiga, where the nearest cell tower is hundreds of kilometers away. Photo: Depositphotos In a word, we all now live in a period of continuous “pocket” telephony. But here’s an interesting incident.

About fifteen years ago, in the youth environment (and not only there!) There was a fashion to “measure” the size of mobile phones. Steeper was the one that in the minimum volume had the same thing as having larger devices. At the same time, the issue of the number of SIM cards in the compared devices was somehow not discussed at all. But the fact was that sold single-cell phones. In any case, only such models came from the West to the republics of the former USSR long before the comparisons mentioned above. With not very high demand for them (the pleasure was too expensive), they accumulated in lots at warehouses, and then were “imposed” on customers through aggressive advertising. Continue reading →