Hi, I'm Georgiana, your English teacher.

Thanks for joining me for a new episode of the Speak English Now podcast.

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Before we start, visit my website, speakenglishpodcast.com, and subscribe to my free mini-course. Okay, let's start. I have a question for you.

What was your first cell phone?

I got my first cell phone in 1996 and it was a Motorola.

I can't remember the exact model,

but it was very different from what we can find in stores nowadays.

And yeah, with this type of cell phone, one could only make phone calls and send text messages.

Now I have a smartphone, and I don't make any phone calls anymore.

Like everybody else, I tend to use WhatsApp, telegram messages,

FaceTime, or Skype. I must have mentioned before that I love technology. Actually, without it,

you couldn't listen to this podcast because I wouldn't be able to record it.

Okay, so let's talk about cell phones and how people used to communicate before they were

invented.

The smartphone couldn't exist without the landline telephone.

And do you know when it was developed? Yes, a long time ago, in 1876.

And the idea of the landline telephone was inspired by the telegraph. We all know that telephones

came before cell phones, but have you ever heard of car phones?

Yes, the original car phone weighed about 80 pounds, and this piece of technology was created in

1947.

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