Calling Home: 9 Towering Smartphone-Shaped Buildings
Does your high-rise apartment or office tower look like a mobile phone? These ones do, and you can bet smartphone users inside them get REALLY good reception. ...
Tag: telecommunications
Windows Zero: 9 Telecom Infrastructure Buildings
They may not have windows, workers or office space yet telecom infrastructure buildings are an essential part of the urban megalopolis. Their lack of an obvious human presence, though, has made ...
Remember Millions of Mobile Phones in the 1960s? You Should
Quick, when was the mobile phone invented? If you thought it was the 1980s, when businessmen lugged them around in giant briefcases, think again. The earliest version of a mobile phone was first ...
Meet the Deadline: 20 Abandoned Payphones
Payphones appear to be following the Pony Express down the well-worn path of obsolete technologies and their ubiquitous appearance in urban landscapes rings hollow in the face of today's cell phone ...
Walky Talky: 12 Concept Mobile Phone Telephone Booths
Classic static telephone booths are slowly fading from the urban landscape but talking on the phone has never been more popular. These 12 concept mobile phone telephone booths attempt to recapture ...
