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Stephen Fry on the PhoneEpisodes

  1. 5. The Chips Inside Smartphones

    5/5Meet the pioneers who designed small silicon chips, a perfect size for pocket-sized phones

  2. 4. Shrinking the Handset

    4/5How engineers turned mobile phones from hefty bricks into fashion items.

  3. 3. The Accidental Discovery of Text

    3/5Stephen Fry explores how texting triumphed unexpectedly when paging was all the rage.

  4. 2. From Car Phone to Executive Brick

    2/5Stephen Fry on how Britain was a world leader in mobile phone technology in the 1980s.

  5. 1. Creating the Network

    1/5Stephen Fry meets the engineers who first dreamt of creating a cellular network in the 60s