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A phone that never hangs up, never charges a bill, and demands you say over.
means A handheld two-way radio that lets people talk to each other over short distances, taking turns to speak and listen on the same channel.
from A piece of plain English baby-talk made official: 'walkie' because you could carry it as you walked, 'talkie' because you could talk into it. The reduplication was wartime slang for the portable field radios of the Second World War, contrasted with the heavier 'handie-talkie' set; the bouncy rhyming name stuck because it described the gadget perfectly and was impossible to forget.
- war baby
- Invented for World War II battlefield squads
- weighs a lot
- Early backpack models topped 35 pounds
- line of sight
- Radio waves travel straight, hating hills and walls
- say over
- Half-duplex means only one voice at once
- channel 9
- Reserved worldwide for CB emergency calls
motorola scr-300 — first handheld two-way radio used by us army signal corps in world war ii, 1940
handie-talkie scr-536 — portable am radio transceiver deployed by allied forces in wwii, weighing 5.5 pounds
motorola dynatac 8000x — first commercial handheld cellular phone marketed as mobile phone, 1983