Old sci-fi also has computers with relais, like the computer clicking in Aliens when it’s thinking. People giving each other their iPad in Star Trek is still pretty amusing to me. Some books still describe punch cards and tapes in space ships. Hell, in Rebel Moon they were shoveling coal to power their space ship.
My suspension of disbelief says the PADDs are because of information security. They can afford for everyone to have 20 PADDs so they’re all coded to only have one document until wiped by the central computer or engineering
But if the landline is in the capsule, it still is technically a cell phone unless they attach it to the phone company’s lines, it’s just a cell phone that happens to be tethered to your house.
Maybe they realized being instantly reachable by anyone everywhere you go kinda sucks actually and cellphones fell by the wayside in favor of “retro” style tethered-to-capsule phones, and Akira Toryiama just never mentioned it?
I just watched dragon ball again. They have houses that fit into a capsule, but still call each other on a land line 💀
Old sci-fi also has computers with relais, like the computer clicking in Aliens when it’s thinking. People giving each other their iPad in Star Trek is still pretty amusing to me. Some books still describe punch cards and tapes in space ships. Hell, in Rebel Moon they were shoveling coal to power their space ship.
My suspension of disbelief says the PADDs are because of information security. They can afford for everyone to have 20 PADDs so they’re all coded to only have one document until wiped by the central computer or engineering
But if the landline is in the capsule, it still is technically a cell phone unless they attach it to the phone company’s lines, it’s just a cell phone that happens to be tethered to your house.
Maybe they realized being instantly reachable by anyone everywhere you go kinda sucks actually and cellphones fell by the wayside in favor of “retro” style tethered-to-capsule phones, and Akira Toryiama just never mentioned it?