A Grade 12 learner in Namibia’s Ohagwena Region has invented a sim-less mobile phone that allows users to make free calls and watch one TV channel.

Simon Petrus, a pupil at Abraham Iyambo Senior Secondary School, created the phone using spares from a phone and television set.

Complete with a light bulb, fan and charger socket, the handset functions off power supplied through a radiator and is able to make calls to anywhere through the use of radio frequencies.

The invention, which is made up of a radio system, is attached to a box and also allows the user to view one TV channel on it.

He is also able to watch NBC1 TV on his box.

No stranger to the world of creation, Petrus is reported to have won a gold medal at national level last year for his invention of a two-in-one machine that works as both a seed drier and cooler.

The shy learner has admitted to working on his invention for two years through money provided by his unemployed parents.

Petrus claims that he invented the phone in the hopes that it would be successful and be able to be carried further.

Source: http://www.trezzyblog.com/2016/07/see-photo-invented-by-pupil-in-namibia.html

I see the future there

okk

Nice one.
Petrus will soon be offered a full scholarship to go study science in a foreign school and they would make sure he gets a good job before he graduates.

Petrus will meet a 'nice' girl, get married and start having children over there.
He will get all the funding he needs for his research and more.

Petrus may never come to Africa again.
He will be offered citizenship easily.

The sad tale of many African geniuses.

good news 4rm kenya ds time

ok

Trunaijian:
Nice one.
Petrus will soon be offered a full scholarship to go study science in a foreign school and they would make sure he gets a good job before he graduates.

Petrus will meet a 'nice' girl, get married and start having children over there.
He will get all the funding he needs for his research and more.

Petrus may never come to Africa again.
He will be offered citizenship easily.

The sad tale of many African geniuses.

It's high time Africans start having plan for transfer of knowledge.

and in the future if he succeeded in in making portable one and it doesn't use air time. Nigeria will ban it

@Op, that was not a "mobile" phone nau... That's like a "house" phone

Congrats to the young lad, wish him and all of us success in all our "good" endeavours.

adedcrown:
and in the future if he succeeded in in making portable one and it doesn't use air time. Nigeria will ban it

As in...

I hope those phone company bosses do not see reason to smoke this guy outta the world tho. They could see this as a threat to their business and kill the mo'foker. Just saying

so na this big fone e want make I put for pocket carry upandan?

I'm still surprised at some of the comments i have been reading regarding this guy's creation ever since it reached FP.

what he created is a walkie-talkie, (even though this one is bulky) and it's mostly used in the military and paramilitary.

It's not an invention, that is how olden days telecommunications systems work until they decided to commercialize it, and made it more advance as we have today.

It's only in the military and paramilitary that we can still find it today. They have a short range of communication and limited channels.

Even as it is, he can only use it within his domain because there are stringent laws binding radio frequency allocation/usage, due to interference issues. He will need a license to operate it in a public domain.

And I can see him having issues with already existing telecommunication companies if he decides to go into mass production and commercialize it.

Although, I appreciate his creative mind he deserves to be commended and encouraged.

Check out the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZBgwMbxBxE

This is Awesome

ok na dis 1 no be mobile phone o

To conceive an idea and make it a reality is not easy!
Well done great mind!
This is just the beginning!

ok

Ok, good of him!
Also watch my own video on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3YmJYB35I4

Hmmm

Too big and unattractive
Nice concept though...

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Ah

good... world biggest phone... Book of record where u at?

Sigh.........

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It's high time Africans start having plan for transfer of knowledge.

African ar born slave we should jst b strong in GOD, as long has this set of politician won't give other people a chance, there can never be a progress

which one did you create...only to appreciate his skill and you are here vomiting arant nonsense

i was here


to book space.