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Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World: The Smartphone

Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World (2019)

Documentary, Historical | UK

Director: Sean Smith, Ben Harding

BBC Four | Wednesday, 7 August 2019 | 03:00

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Monday, 5 September 2022 12:00

Sunday, 4 September 2022 15:00

Tuesday, 30 August 2022 01:00

Monday, 29 August 2022 19:00

Sunday, 10 July 2022 23:00

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Rating: 7.8/10

SEASON: 1

EPISODE: 6 - The Smartphone

SYNOPSIS

Few inventions have revolutionized our everyday existence like the smartphone. It put the world's knowledge in our hands, democratized news-gathering, photography and through social media, connected billions of people in a way that wasn't possible before. But how did we get here?

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Producer: Ben Bowie, Tim Green

RUNTIME: 54 min

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