Reality Check by Dave Whamond for March 01, 2020

I’d like to believe it but it just looks a bit phony.

How did we ever drive without one?

Actually phones got smaller and smaller and smaller until the smartphones then they started getting bigger again.

Nah, as soon as people realized they could watch porn on phones they started to get bigger

Where are the tin cans and string?

Where’s the intracranial implant?

Dave is clearly anti science. Phones have always changed in size. His selective sampling is just a fear mongering campaign by people with tiny hands. Well, maybe ONE person with tiny hands.

Today Ralph gets to administer the coup de pun.

I loved my Razer flip phone, in 2009 I was a little intimidated with the purchase of my iPhone 3s. 10 years later and a few upgrades thru to the X, really amazing when you think about it. Even more amazing is 2 weeks ago I was with a friend and he was using a Samsung flipper. I didn’t say anything I kind of just looked. In retrospect the new phones are kind of pricey.

I’m surprised the first wall-mounted telephone, without dialler isn’t featured…

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Is this an old comic? For where’s the part where the screen sizes are getting bigger, which is biggening the size of the phone itself?

And I STILL don’t have cell service where I live…

Shouldn’t the last one be bigger? The trend seems to be bigger and bigger screens.

Where’s the shoe phone from Get Smart?

We had a big wooden box on the wall of our farmhouse with a crank to send a signal to the operator or a neighbor – and it was a party line; 14 parties and most of them were boarding houses, so we would hear it ringing all day long. Our ring was 1 short and 2 long ones.

Forgot to include the Bag Phone.

Now we are like radio controlled robots at everyone’s beck and call.

Gosh! I think I’ve had all of those at one time. Except for the Blackberry.

Hello?! Dave didn’t include the classic candlestick, Bell would be miffed.

That’s because people think they are soooo important now. Actually, you’re not important. Leave your ego at home. Nobody else wants it.

I’ve had the first, the first in a wireless bag, the second, and currently the sixth, old reliable RAZR, and awaiting proof of this year’s alleged promise of robo-call effective blocking. However, I keep getting charged for INCOMING messages, including when AT&T sends me a log on code, what the hey?

There were a lot of earlier versions as well…

Missed the old candlestick model!

And, yet, there’s still no one I want to call.

I miss that flip phone so much.

Actually I think phones are getting bigger again since they got touch screens. Compare the now tiny original iPhone to any of the newer ones. Same with Android. When they weren’t smart phones, they were really tiny . . .

As a bicyclist, I regularly find dropped cell phones. I used to have a drawer of them that could complete the evolutionary progress starting with the third step after the classic “brick”.