Brian Litzinger <brian@apt.uucp> (01/10/90)
At CES last weekend, there was about 2400 square feet of floor space
dedicated to consumer telephones, especially cellular.
Motorola was showing there new ultra slim cellular phone. It folds
up and fits in your shirt pocket for about $2300. For $3000 they
offered the same unit with caller-ID builtin. [The $2300 model was
discounted to $1300 only a few booths away.]
There were also phones there with caller-ID and RS-232C ports which
connected to a box. This box contained a hard-drive with a
"reverse-directory" on it, which allowed the phone to look up the name
and address of the caller when it received a caller-ID.
Thus it displayed the caller-ID, name of the person and their address
if available.
There were also simple caller-ID capable phones there for as little as
$28 dealer cost.
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