Watch SK Telecom’s Telephone Orchestra
Korean telecommunications company SK Telecom is celebrating its 30 years of cellular mobile computing. To highlight the history of their company, they’ve created an orchestra comprising mobile and cordless phones they’ve supported for the last three decades. Shown in the video below, the programming and execution is pretty fascinating, and certainly nostalgic.
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