mobile phone in 1938?

[BW]

Last month some bloke claimed that the 1938 "time traveller"
photographed with a mobile phone was his granny, and it was a
prototype portable phone made by DuPont. He claimed that the phone was
5 inches long and 3 inches wide. How could such a device be made then?
WW2 handie-talkies were 13 inches long with a 40 inch antenna.
The grandson has not shown the 1938 phone to anybody.

 

[Rodwell]

On 31/05/2013 08:30, BW wrote:

Last month some bloke claimed that the 1938 "time traveller"
photographed with a mobile phone was his granny, and it was a
prototype portable phone made by DuPont. He claimed that the phone was
5 inches long and 3 inches wide. How could such a device be made then?
WW2 handie-talkies were 13 inches long with a 40 inch antenna.
The grandson has not shown the 1938 phone to anybody.

I noticed your email address & feel I may have an explanation;


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