New smartphone makers seem to spring up every day, but some companies have been making communication equipment before phones were even invented. Think “telegraph”! Yep, before the Google Keyboard and swipe input, there was Morse code.
Siemens & Halske was founded in 1847 to improve on that – instead of dots and dashes, the new machine used needles to point at letters. A primitive screen but still an improvement. The company’s entry to the world of telephony came 150 years later – the Siemens Mobiltelefon C1 from 1985 was a car phone that worked over VHF.
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