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Big is beautiful
On the same theme – possibly – we are delighted to see the Daily Telegraph giving space to Chinese engineer Yuan Tan and his giant mobile phone on 4 April.
Mr Tan of Songyuan City, whose name translates as “New Year”, has apparently built a 3ft 2in phone weighing 48lbs, from which he is able to send text messages and make phone calls.
We would like nothing better than to believe this one, but we are concerned that the original newswire report dates from 1 April.
“The neighbours were always knocking on my door, asking what was going on with all the noise from the apartment,” Mr Tan evidently says.
And we are even more concerned by Mr Tan’s revelation that he and his father were apparently inspired to create the giant red mobile by watching a YouTube clip of Dom Joly yelling “hello!” into his own giant handset on Trigger Happy TV.
We would love to hear from any of our readers in Songyuan City who can confirm or deny this courageous rearguard action against miniaturisation.
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