Sentence examples for primitive telephone from inspiring English sources
But unlike companies in many other large Asian cities, those in Yangon must deal with regular power failures, unreliable Internet service and primitive telephone connections to other countries.
There are marvellous visual jokes, like the primitive telephone by which Gilbert receives coded message about box-office receipts, and the dialogue is consistently elegant and funny.
The wittiest is a primitive telephone-answering machine that resembles the do-it-yourself hi-fi kits assembled by audiophiles in the early days of stereo.
Belka exports liquidated consumer items to the Soviet Union, but also is involved in importing, installing and maintaining satellite-telephone terminals, which are used by Western companies in the Soviet Union who have little patience for the primitive phone system.
Primitive radio telephones had been around for years, starting with experiments in the 1920s, while the concept of cellular communications which allows for stretching the availability of limited radio spectrum was first demonstrated by Bell Labs in 1947.
Family, friends, lovers, and co-workers can now communicate constantly by telephone (how primitive), email (also rather primitive), text messages, and Twitter.
We're already at a primitive kind of convergence — telephone, television sets and computers, mixing the whole thing together.
In a telephone interview, he said: The reality is that Syrians are having to defend themselves in the most primitive ways.
Imagine the world in the late 1970s and early 1980s when Gibson was first fashioning his fictional cyberspace: primitive Sinclair computers built from kits, unwieldy consoles for Pong videogames and people connecting home computers distantly via telephones.
