Que trabalho Sci-Fi introduziu o comunicador sem fio portátil?

1936: "Finality Unlimited" , uma novela de Donald Wandrei , publicado pela primeira vez em Histórias Astounding , setembro de 1936 , disponível em Arquivo da Internet . A história é definida (inicialmente) em 28 de agosto de 2005:

Despite the heat, an air of excitement prevailed on the streets and the hanging-garden cafes. The Second Expedition to Mercury should land at any time now with news of what happened to the First Expedition, still missing from its maiden voyage years ago in 1991.

The arteries and towers of Manhattan had begun to assume the aspect of a dream city, as the products of science came into wider use. The race was markedly happier, healthier, taller than a century before; the atmosphere filtered of dirt and gases; the harbors clean again; life a richer and broader experience. Each individual carried an identification tag, and a pocket radiophone that permitted conversation with any one anywhere on the globe.

[. . . .]

Stanley King had dressed and begun packing when he heard the signal of his pocket radiophone. He hesitated about answering it. He didn't want to get tangled with anything that might delay his departure. Still, it might be a call of importance, and finally he answered with a noncommittal, "Yes?"

1930: "Sr. Murphy de Nova York" , um conto de Thomas McMorrow ; publicado pela primeira vez na edição de 22 de março de 1930 do The Saturday Evening Post ; também a resposta para a questão do ID da história História sobre deixar o banho corrida / arranha-céu colapso .

"Now, gentlemen, please," breathed Mr. Bligh. "Do remember that I'm a thousand miles from home and haven't had any lunch yet. Well, I shall have to call up." He took out his pocketell. "Are you there? Billy calling . . . Hello, Molly! I just called you to say that I can't possibly get home— What's that, sweetheart? . . . Oh, no, no. . . . But I say that I am not! I am in New York in a conference. . . . Yes, business. . . . Why don't I— Now, Molly, how can you ask me to be so rude? . . . Oh, very well, my dear, in a moment." He turned to us, coloring, and said, "Will you permit?" We were married men ourselves; we smiled and got to our feet and bowed to his lady when she appeared; her eyes swept us vigilantly. "I'm sorry this had to happen, gentlemen," said Mr. Bligh, blanking her. "May we proceed now with our affair?"

Se você está disposto a esticar o que pode ser considerado SciFi:

"Very well," said the Wizard, and without any fuss or mystery whatever he performed a magical rite that was simple and effective. Therefore those seated in the Nome King's cavern were both startled and amazed when all the people of Oogaboo suddenly disappeared from the room, and with them the Rose Princess. At first they could not understand it at all; but presently Shaggy suspected the truth, and believing that Ozma was now taking an interest in the party he drew from his pocket a tiny instrument which he placed against his ear.

Ozma, observing this action in her Magic Picture, at once caught up a similar instrument from a table beside her and held it to her own ear. The two instruments recorded the same delicate vibrations of sound and formed a wireless telephone, an invention of the Wizard. Those separated by any distance were thus enabled to converse together with perfect ease and without any wire connection.

"Do you hear me, Shaggy Man?" asked Ozma.

"Yes, Your Highness," he replied.

O exemplo mais antigo que eu posso encontrar de um dispositivo de comunicação eletrônica bidirecional de mão é o rádio de pulso de duas vias de Dick Tracy que apareceu no Tira de Dick Tracy em 13 de janeiro de 1946.

Deve haver muitas histórias anteriores que envolvam comunicações por meios mágicos (ou outros não científicos).

Philip Francis Nowlan descreveu algo chamado "disco de peito", que embora não seja exatamente portátil, é um comunicador portátil sem fio, em 1928, de acordo com Technovelgy:

The chest discs were likewise self-contained sending sets, strapped to the chest a few inches below the neck and actuated by the vibrations from the vocal cords through the body tissues. The total range of these sets was about eighteen miles. Reception was remarkably clear, quite free from the static of 20th Century radios, and of a strength in direct proportion to the distance of the speaker.> _{http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=1614}

Estes foram usados em conjunto com algo chamado "Ultraphone Ear-Disc":

These ultraphones were quite different from the one used by Wilma's companion scout the day I saved her from the attack of the bandit Gang. That one was contained entirely in a small pocket case. These, with which we were now equipped, consisted of a pair of ear discs, each a separate and self-contained receiving set They slipped into little pockets over our ears in the fabric helmets we wore, and shut out virtually all extraneous sounds...
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Em 1923, H.G. Wells tinha uma rede de comunicação baseada em nós, na qual todos tinham cabos que podiam acessar pilares pré-instalados para comunicação sem fio remota assíncrona:

On his second walk with Mr. Barnstaple he said he was going to hear from his mother, and Mr. Barnstaple was shown the equivalent of correspondence in Utopia. Crystal carried a little bundle of wires and light rods; and presently coming to a place where a pillar stood in the midst of a lawn he spread this affair out like a long cat's cradle and tapped a little stud in the pillar with a key that he carried on a light gold chain about his neck. Then he took up a receiver attached to his apparatus, and spoke aloud and listened and presently heard a voice.

It was a very pleasant woman's voice; it talked to Crystal for a time without interruption, and then Crystal talked back, and afterwards there were other voices, some of which Crystal answered and some which he heard without replying. Then he gathered up his apparatus again.

This Mr. Barnstaple learnt was the Utopian equivalent of letter and telephone. For in Utopia, except by previous arrangement, people do not talk together on the telephone. A message is sent to the station of the district in which the recipient is known to be, and there it waits until he chooses to tap his accumulated messages. And any that one wishes to repeat can be repeated. Then he talks back to the senders and dispatches any other messages he wishes. The transmission is wireless. The little pillars supply electric power for transmission or for any other purpose the Utopians require. For example, the gardeners resort to them to run their mowers and diggers and rakes and rollers. http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=775

embora não seja totalmente sem fio, era portátil e só difere de nossa rede de telefonia celular atual, pois A) é assíncrona e B) em vez de receber sinais sem fio de uma rede cabeada, está recebendo sinais cabeados de uma rede sem fio. p>     

Um personagem no romance de 1948 de Heinlein Space Cadet diz a seu amigo algo sobre o efeito "Eu gostaria de ter o número de celular dela". Eu atualizarei de manhã quando puder encontrar a página.