First ever cellphone was a real Brick!

[spiderrasmon]

man, that sucker was huge... eat your heart out Zack Morris!

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/ptech/04/11/motorola.first.phone.ap/index.html

 

[mpitts]

We always called it the club phone when we sold them 10+ years ago.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Holy sh*t, I have an old relic somewhere at home that looks like that.

- M4H

 

[neovan]

i remember those. my dad had one of those and told him to call him only if there was an emergency because each min was like $2 incoming or outgoing.

 

[Freejack2]

Never sold the original brick but I remember selling the last of the smaller version of it. Ahh the days of Cellular One, analog was king, and a $40 plan got you 50 minutes of talk time.

 

[conjur]

That's nothing.

Some of the first ones came with a separate carrying bag for the power supply. Was like carrying around a purse.

 

[jadinolf]

And before the brick was a telephone in a suitcase. What a hassle.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: conjur
That's nothing.

Some of the first ones came with a separate carrying bag for the power supply. Was like carrying around a purse.

MY DAD STILL USES ONE. It's in his new jaguar (used to mention the contrast between a decent car and a crappy old cellphone). He's had it in the car for over ten years. He pays a small fee and only uses it for emergencies. It still works

 

[richardycc]

dai gou dai?

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: conjur
That's nothing.

Some of the first ones came with a separate carrying bag for the power supply. Was like carrying around a purse.

MY DAD STILL USES ONE. It's in his new jaguar (used to mention the contrast between a decent car and a crappy old cellphone). He's had it in the car for over ten years. He pays a small fee and only uses it for emergencies. It still works

:camera:s???

 

[JoeKing]

It's the Zack phone!

 

[PatboyX]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Holy sh*t, I have an old relic somewhere at home that looks like that.

- M4H

yeah, i drive mine to work every morning.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: conjur
That's nothing.

Some of the first ones came with a separate carrying bag for the power supply. Was like carrying around a purse.

MY DAD STILL USES ONE. It's in his new jaguar (used to mention the contrast between a decent car and a crappy old cellphone). He's had it in the car for over ten years. He pays a small fee and only uses it for emergencies. It still works

:camera:s???

He's almost 2000 miles away, and I'd feel silly asking

 

[Wadded Beef]

my friends grandpa has an even older cell phone, it's a leather suitcase with a handset attached with a cord. and the moron is still paying for the service, which is like 400 a month! :Q