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CyberCubed 06-23-2010 12:22 PM
How did the TurtleCom predate cell phones?
 
In the 1987 series, the Turtles and April all use the Turtle com to keep in contact with each other, similar to a modern day cell phone.

But this was 1987. Excuse my ignorance, but did any sort of mobile phone exist back then?

Candy Kappa 06-23-2010 12:37 PM
mobile phones have existed since early 1900's

gobo 06-23-2010 12:40 PM
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Originally Posted by CyberCubed (Post 783180)
How did the TurtleCom predate cell phones?
Same way Donatello invented the universe: mutagen. :D
Quote:
Originally Posted by CyberCubed (Post 783180)
Excuse my ignorance, but did any sort of mobile phone exist back then?
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Originally Posted by Wiki
The first commercially automated cellular network (the 1G generation) was launched in Japan by NTT in 1979, initially in the metropolitan area of Tokyo. Within five years, the NTT network had been expanded to cover the whole population of Japan and became the first nation-wide 1G network. In 1981, this was followed by the simultaneous launch of the Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT) system in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.[8]. NMT was the first mobile phone network featuring international roaming. The first 1G network launched in the USA was Chicago based Ameritech in 1983 using the Motorola DynaTAC mobile phone. Several countries then followed in the early 1980s including the UK, Mexico and Canada
[Source: Wikipedia.org]

Andrew NDB 06-23-2010 01:10 PM
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Originally Posted by CyberCubed (Post 783180)
But this was 1987. Excuse my ignorance, but did any sort of mobile phone exist back then?
Yeah, even years before that. Satellite Phones, or SatPhones.

ooglafina 06-23-2010 01:13 PM
When I was a kid, I remember thinking that they must be magical or something. Which now makes me wonder what was wrong with me because I apparently had never heard of a walkie-talkie.

ToTheNines 06-23-2010 01:17 PM
Wow dude, worst thread ever. Even when I was a kid I just figured they were glorified walky-talkys.

ooglafina 06-23-2010 01:20 PM
I should keep my childhood "fails" to myself. :P

Raph's Girl 06-23-2010 01:35 PM
As have been said cell phones have basically always been around in one form or another. In the 80's they were like these huge bulky things....and car phones have been around since the 70's (first appeared in Finland in 1971).

Samhain 06-23-2010 01:56 PM
Man, turtle fans are boooooooooored....

BoggleKng 06-23-2010 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by samhain88 (Post 783221)
Man, turtle fans are boooooooooored....
lol, you can say that again :lol:

CyberCubed 06-23-2010 02:19 PM
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Originally Posted by samhain88 (Post 783221)
Man, turtle fans are boooooooooored....
I blame the lack of any news on any new Turtle stuff to blame for threads like these.

We really have nothing to talk about till 2012. How else are we supposed to pass the time?

Ninjinister 06-23-2010 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by gobo (Post 783189)
Same way Donatello invented the universe: mutagen. :D
That reminds me of a quote of Shredder's in Mutant Melee when he loses to Don:

"I suppose you "invented" victory, Donatello?"

Master Splinter 06-23-2010 03:20 PM
I just thought they were futuristic iPhone 4s... 8)

-ms

Venom 06-23-2010 11:14 PM
My mom had me say "Turtle Call" because "comm" sounded susupiciously like "cum" when spoken from my young mouth. :P

Cure 06-24-2010 12:02 AM
http://danaswanson.expertsandinsider...rris-phone.jpg

Luzmagica 06-24-2010 01:21 AM
Hey! This thread is not so bad...!!! I like it!!! :D :tgrin:
Dont you remember how Michael Knight called for KITT???...:D:lol::lol::lol:
It was en 80´s ...and was fiction: (not for me...I always want one of that! I was sure someday it will be real ...:lol: LOL)...
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/6764/95671093.jpg

Now the real one...
http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/7566/lggd91001.jpg

Original TMNT Cartoon Fan 06-24-2010 04:14 AM
Years
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by CyberCubed (Post 783180)
In the 1987 series, the Turtles and April all use the Turtle com to keep in contact with each other, similar to a modern day cell phone.

But this was 1987. Excuse my ignorance, but did any sort of mobile phone exist back then?
They have existed for years, they were just not used by everyday people back then. It's the same with the Internet, which has existed within the US military forces since 1969, but it would last until circa 1995 before it became a part of everyday life (the same with computers). What exists today only in business or military, but will be used in everyday life some years later?

Toon 06-25-2010 02:54 PM
Chester Gould introduced Dick Tracy's (now iconic) 2-Way Wrist Radio in the 1940's.

Coola Yagami 06-25-2010 08:53 PM
So true, TurtleComs= Walkie Talkies.
Shell Cell= Cel phones
2012 TMNT thing= whatever we have by then

ooglafina 06-25-2010 09:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Coola Yagami (Post 783638)
2012 TMNT thing= whatever we have by then
They'll probably be whatever brand the movie sponsor is trying to hock at that moment.


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