It’s 1986: Top Gun has just hit cinemas, Diego Maradona has scored the Hand of God, and Britain’s affluent yuppies are going nuts for a new status symbol – the brick phone.
At a time when most early adopters are having to use a phone that can only be used bolted into their car, the upwardly mobile elite are chucking thousands of pounds at chunky, angular mobile phones that weigh almost a kilogram, take hours to recharge and conk out after just half an hour on a call.
