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A phone that refuses to lie about distance, hissing static the second you wander too far.
means A walkie-talkie: a handheld two-way radio that lets you talk and listen over short distances by pressing a button.
from A clipped, friendly shortening of "walkie-talkie," itself a rhyming, reduplicative coinage from the 1930s–40s describing the gadget's two miracles for the time — you could walk with it and talk through it. The portable radios came into their own in World War II, slung over soldiers' backs and clutched in hands, and the bouncy name stuck the way such sing-song pairings do. "Walkie" alone is the casual diminutive, the word worn smooth by everyday use.
- war origin
- Born for WWII soldiers needing hands-free shouting
- push-to-talk
- You hold a button to speak, monologues forbidden
- film slang
- On sets, crews live or die by walkies
- open channel
- Anyone nearby can eavesdrop, privacy optional
- over and out
- Technically wrong; you say one or the other
motorola scr300 — first commercial walkie-talkie, introduced by motorola in 1940
handie talkie scr536 — motorola's portable transceiver used extensively by us military in world war ii
motorola dyna tac — first handheld cellular phone, 1973, evolved from walkie-talkie technology