Your smartphone would have been worth more than $32 million in 1985 (Infographic)
It’s easy to take the power of the smartphone in your pocket—and the networks that support it—for granted. Heck, carriers are pretty much giving them away these days.
But online marketing outfit WebpageFX has put together a clever infographic that details just how amazing—and valuable—a smartphone really is. The company tallied up the various capabilities of a typical smartphone and researched how much each one would have cost you back in 1985, when cellphones were first hitting the market.
The numbers—adjusted for inflation—range from moderate ($45 for a Casio digital watch) to outrageous ($6,630 for a Magellan GPS receiver) to mind-blowing ($110,520 for a Future Systems videoconferencing system). Of course, the bulk of the cost comes from the $32 million for a Cray-2 supercomputer to match the processing power now found in a device in your 10-year-old nephew’s pocket.
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