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Show PORTAPHONE WILL BE BOON TO BUSINESSMEN "If that call I'm expecting comes in, I'll be out in the garage." Gerald E. Vickers, manager for Mountain Slates Telephone, explained that this is one example ex-ample of typical conversation which may be done away with by a nt;w lineless extension Ulcphone now under development. develop-ment. According to Mr. Vickers, the yew phone is completely portable and can be used -without connecting wires at a distance of 100 feet to over a quarter of a mile from a stationary sta-tionary phone. "It will allow a person to work in the yard, go out to the barn, or, in the case of a businessman, go across the street for lunch without missing miss-ing any calls. The lineless extension ex-tension goes along attached to his belt or thrust into his coat pocket." Still some years from being available, the new set will revolutionize telephone calling when it becomes operational. A housewife, for example, will be able to answer her own calls when she's out hanging clothes. Unlike a push-to-talk walkie-talkie, walkie-talkie, the experimental phone will provide simultaneous two-way two-way conversation, plus the connecting, disconnecting, dialing dial-ing and ringing of a conventional conven-tional telephone. It will be a dial-in-the-hand-set model, equipped with an extendable antenna for use during longer range transmission transmis-sion and reception. Mountain States is one of two companies selected by the phone's manufacturer, Bell Telephone Tel-ephone Laboratories, to field test the new sets. |