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Created: 2025-07-25 14:30:00 UTC

🇮🇹 ROME’S 1949 CAR PHONES WERE STRAIGHT OUT OF A SPY MOVIE

Drivers could pull up, plug in a handset at sidewalk stations, and make calls without leaving their cars, turning Fiats into futuristic gadgets.

This wasn’t wireless, but in 1949, it felt like witchcraft. 

It wasn’t wireless, but in 1949 it felt like magic, a glimpse of mobile tech decades before cell phones ruled the world.

For a moment in history, calling from your car wasn’t just cool, it was the future peeking through the cracks decades before cell phones would take over the world.

Source: @the_history_inn

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