They have actually established that the show is taking place in late 2004. They basically crashed on the day the show premiered and have been on the island about three months or so, so it is currently something like December 2004 in Lost-time. I think the phone is all super advanced for the time because Desmond's lost love Penny (who sent out the search helicopter) is from the incredibly wealthy Widmore family that owns several large manufacturing companies (one episode featured a Widmore brand birth control kit), so she probably has access to some really advanced prototypes for her search teams.
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They have actually established that the show is taking place in late 2004. They basically crashed on the day the show premiered and have been on the island about three months or so, so it is currently something like December 2004 in Lost-time. I think the phone is all super advanced for the time because Desmond's lost love Penny (who sent out the search helicopter) is from the incredibly wealthy Widmore family that owns several large manufacturing companies (one episode featured a Widmore brand birth control kit), so she probably has access to some really advanced prototypes for her search teams.