Are you old enough to remember this cell phone?

[coachTanthony]

[WindAtMyBack]

I remember the "bag phone" and similar phones that were literally five times that size. I worked in construction back then. Construction contractors were out on site and did not have access to conventional land line phones. So some of them had what might be considered the early versions of cell phones.

The "cell" was an entire city or even larger. It wasn't truly a cell system. It didn't have automatic switching from one cell to the next. I think that picture might be an early Motorola. That was not a true cell system.

There were also two-way radios that contractors used. They connected to a service that "patched" into the phone system so they could make phone calls.

I also did a small amount of work on what might be considered an early "smart phone" several years before Apple come out with a smart phone - maybe before they even thought of it. We pictured a civil engineer out building a bridge. Some problem came up and he took a picture to send back to the home office (which wasn't possible at the time).

We also pictured doctors out on the golf course receiving X-Rays without having to go back to the office. The idea of regular people doing stuff like that never even occurred to us. We pictured it as strictly commercial.

[WhiteSteve]

Zack Morris was my hero growing up, OF COURSE I remember that cordless payphone 😂

[sage2021]

Yep! I sure do remember them. Maybe they should have stopped at that old technology instead of cellphones that everyone on earth 🌎 has to have and keep maintaining them.
Plus these old phones didn't have social media sites reprogramming people's brains.

[DeeDeeDeVour]

My husband & I have gathered 10 of 'em, arranged like pins in a bowling alley.

We have a collection of vintage public telephones and mobile phones.

The brick cell phones stand out among the best in our collection.

[DeeDeeDeVour]

@coachTanthony
Thanks for the MHO. :)

[Likes2drive]

Yes, the 8000X Motorola Dynatac brick phone around 1983 cost about $4000 then and cost that now since it’s so rare to find and a collectors item, was made popular in the movie “Wall Street”

[electromagnetic]

Absolutely. My dad had one.

[Lliam]

I'm definitely old enough, but I wasn't that aware of them back then. I understand that they sold for almost $4,000.
It's funny to think of a cell phone that's 10" long and weighs 2.5 lbs. It promised 30 minutes of talk time on a full charge and took 10 hours to charge.

The first cell phone I ever got was a flip phone from the company I worked for. That was in the later '90s. Those phones didn't have SMART functions. They were just mobile phones. But at least they were really compact.

[Anonymous]

Yeah. This is where Gordon Gecko became my hero.😆

I always love when Oilver Stone speaks about this movie. Because he said Gordon was supposed to be the villain. The lesson was supposed to be about the excesses of greed. But he didn't take into account how greedy Americans were. America liked Gordon. Anything that makes Oliver Stone mad has to be right as far as I'm concerned.😆

[FreyaRed]

50+ years ago. I hope this brick had battery that lasted longer than ultra thin batteries in current smart phones with processing power of a super computer in 1980ties.

[exitseven]

hahahaha Yes, i remember when cell phones were a little briefcase with a handset.

[Wiredone]

Me too

[Jessica405]

Looks like a Motorola "house brick". My grandad had one. Survived being run over by his XJ6.

[AviatorTom]

Yes. That was the first cellphone I had, working on a project in London in the late 1980s with a British company that gave me the phone to use. I was on 24-hour call.

[Staximus]

Haha my dad used to have one of those for work

[joehypo1]

I have used one of those it came in handy if you needed to blugen someone to death or chalk a wheel if you parked on a hill

[Anpu23]

Yes even almost bought one until they wanted a crazy deposit for the plan. Stuck to my pager, thank you very much.

[emeraldsaphire]

Nope. I remember flip phones and Nokia's though

[jshm2]

I actually might still have one of those in my other place!

[Massageman]

Oh yes. At our company picnic, one of the manager's had one in her car. Had to be plugged into the cigarette lighter for power.

[AhmetHasanCan]

The oldest phones I remember are Ericsson 337 and Motorola 7200.

my first phone ericsson 337

[OlderAndWiser]

You bet i remember those phones!

[DryGermanGuy]

Yeah, the Motorola International models.

[RavVid]

I saw one like it as a child

[HoganWAY]

Parents showed me one they had. It was called a "brick" or stone-age LOL

[Anonymous]

no idea. i never knew about them but I wish I had them in my life back then.

[molonski2]

I had one --Yep

1/2 a Brick.

[Levin]

ha, I'm not that fucking old.

[Apple1996]

I'm not lol

[Wiredone]

Yes I do

[Jmmmfi4]

Unfortunately yes

[beefcakebradybatson]

I'm 71. Of course.

[4ngelic]

nope

[Robert1971]

Yes I do