{"id":4899,"date":"2026-03-11T01:27:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/when-the-bbc-reported-on-camera-phonesback-in-2001-shorts-history-bbc\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T01:27:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:27:46","slug":"when-the-bbc-reported-on-camera-phonesback-in-2001-shorts-history-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/when-the-bbc-reported-on-camera-phonesback-in-2001-shorts-history-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"When the BBC reported on camera phonesback in 2001 #shorts #history #bbc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PfzNCj_xl9U?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>In a report from November 23, 2001, BBC technology reporter Rory<br \/>\nCellan-Jones discussed the rise of mobile phone texting in Britain, with<br \/>\nusers sending a billion texts monthly.<br \/>\nDespite its popularity, mobile phone sales were declining, leading<br \/>\nmanufacturers to innovate. They hoped new phones with picture-taking and<br \/>\nsending capabilities would revive the market.<br \/>\nThe report questioned whether this &#8220;picture-texting&#8221; could surpass the<br \/>\nsuccess of traditional text messaging<br \/>\n@bbcnews<\/p>\n<p>#shorts #history #firstphone<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PfzNCj_xl9U\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a report from November 23, 2001, BBC technology reporter Rory Cellan-Jones discussed the rise of mobile phone texting in Britain, with users sending a billion texts monthly. Despite its popularity, mobile phone sales were declining, leading manufacturers to innovate. They hoped new phones with picture-taking and sending capabilities would revive the market. The report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155150803,"featured_media":4900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4155150803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}