14 Oct 2019

Pagers: SO dated now! - NOT amateur radio

About 20 years ago I was in charge of the RF development for the Cobalt FLEX pager for the USA, that was manufactured in Mexico.

We had an excellent bunch of developers who could probably have designed anything in RF. Instead, Philips got out of paging and made a hash of mobile phones.

The photo shows the team at a dinner after the development was completed.

1 comment:

G1KQH said...

Philips seem to have got out of most markets these days, I only hear of them in strong in lighting and medical and a few consumer items badged up with their name, they may still own Philishave. It was rumoured they wanted to dump lighting too?

As for pagers I think they still use them in hospitals?


73 Steve