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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. Before AT&T, Verizon, or T-Mobile 4g phones came out, this pocket phone was the cell phone of the 50's. 

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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