As a kid I imagined the future as being able to hold a TV in your pocket, and flying skateboards. For the latter I guess electric scooters will have to do
As most of the other comments point out, pocket TV did exist and you have exposed yourself as:
- Younger than the smartphone
- Never watched a 90’s movie with a security guard in it
Both wrong
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1st smartphone Galaxy Spica age 26
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These TV wouldn’t fit in your jeans
You missed the point of my very unelaborate shower thought. I see how not being a thing could be understood as never existed. I meant a big thing like, you know, smartphones
I’m unsure what you think Netflix or YouTube TV are, but they are indeed on my smart phone, which goes in my pocket.
Watch season 1 episode 8 of friends, Joey has a pocket tv to watch the football game at a funeral.
And that was mid 90s, 10 years before the hand tablets of today.
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Would this require feeding it batteries like a triggerhappy machine gunner?
Probably! According to Wikipedia you get 3-5 hours off of 6 AA batteries. Not sure how that changes with the TV tuner but battery life wasn’t great.
Sweet summer child. It was a thing.
I mean they literally are, you can watch literally any tv show or movie on them so I don’t see a difference.
Sure but they aren’t TVs. A TV can normally only do TV shit.
I can play games and surf the web as well as use most android apps on my TV.
I am old enough to remember portable tvs.
And actual pocket TVs. Interesting to see OP think they were never a thing. Don’t get me wrong, they were shit, but they did exist!
Sony TV / Radio combo.