11 November 1988: This new phone is bound to be an improvement on the ‘brick’ mobile phones currently on the market

A pocket telephone, smaller and lighter than most calculators were a decade ago, yesterday heralded the second surge of radio communications which could eventually remove the wired phone from office and home.

It weighs 130 grams, sits easily in a shirt pocket, needs no external aerial, and will sell for about £150. It is the first product to be demonstrated in Britain’s pioneering of CT2 - a halfway house between the cheap cordless phone in the home and the costly (and overcrowded) cellular car-phone services.