It’s easy to chuckle at a vintage Radio Shack ad like this one on YouTube from 1990 that touted the “Affordable, Portable, Cellular Telephone” from Radio Shack (gee…do ya think that’s a Bill Gates-like character for the boy?). What most of us don’t know is that these ‘brick’ phones, with their six inch antennas, listed for $1,200 ($1,970 in 2011 dollars) and the average cellular phone call cost was $.40/minute!
We’ve come a loooong way since 1990 and it’s likely this mobile thingy is gonna be big. Ā š
Joining us on this episode of the Minnov8 Gang is Justin Grammens, co-Founder at Recursive Awesome, LLC, owner of Localtone, LLC founder of theĀ Mobile Twin Cities User’s Group, and co-founder of Mobile March. During the “Gang Mentality” segment we’re pleased to have been joined by Lisa Foote, co-founder ofĀ MixMobi and a pragmatic expert in the mobile space overall. She also speaks at many industry events (e.g., the upcoming Mobile March) and is a strategist with a global perspective on the mobile space.
Hosts: Steve Borsch,Ā Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins andĀ Phil Wilson.
Music:Ā Beyond the Pale is the artistĀ & their song āFaral O’Garasā via the podsafeĀ Music Alley.
The Podcast
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Discussed during the show:
- ZDnet report on Macworld 2011
- Macworld site 2011 predictions
- Windows Phone 7 devs get long-awaited pay day
- Tweet Aggregator, Paper.li
- iPad Cases w/keyboards
- Nokia CEO Elop Lays Groundwork for New Strategy, Hints May Be Open to OS Switch
- Gartner: App Sales To Top $15 Billion In 2011
- GlueCon and Glue Hackathon (Minneapolis won vote to be one! Date to be announced soon.)