Damn, that phone prototype is crazy-small for the 1980s – it looks like a Motorola Razr V3 (2004)!
Even if it were just a cordless landline phone (with less demanding hardware than a cellular phone), battery size would be a problem because lithium-ion hadn’t been invented yet. I’m not sure Ni-Cd batteries that thin ever existed.
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Damn, that phone prototype is crazy-small for the 1980s – it looks like a Motorola Razr V3 (2004)!
Even if it were just a cordless landline phone (with less demanding hardware than a cellular phone), battery size would be a problem because lithium-ion hadn’t been invented yet. I’m not sure Ni-Cd batteries that thin ever existed.
Probably intended to run on a pair of CR2032s or something. With an uptime of two days idle.