Ha ha, love the older movies when "cell phones" were the size of a shoe!!

[a kennedy]

Watching a movie from 2003.

[customerserviceguy]

1. Last month

I was visiting my son in Wyoming, and we decided to binge watch the first season of Cheers together. It looked so quaint, all those folks calling in to the bar to see if a person was there!

[wcmagumba]

2. Me too, I had one of those huge phones they called a "bag phone"...It was in a small briefcase size bag...those were the

days...things are more better now, even with my old iphone...Cheers

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Didn't Those Things Weigh Around 4#?

The first cellphone I had was the Nokia the company passed to managers.
Fit in a shirt pocket, but heavy by today's smartphone standards.
Never had a bag phone or a brick.

[wcmagumba]

10. Yup, it was a beast...I've been around a while and seen a few phones...

Just call me gramps, although I've never been married nor had any kiddies (that I know of)...

[Ocelot II]

3. Or when there were tiny flip phones that had antennas you had to pull up,

and you couldn't do anything with them but make phone calls. Or when there were no cell phones, just pagers. Or not even those, just pay phones and land lines. And it wasn't even all that long ago.

[wcmagumba]

11. I had one of those too...

[OC375]

4. Older phones?

Have you seen how big phones have gotten lately? They're the size of a small tablet, and getting close to shoe size again!

[usonian]

5. Almost took a recent call on my watch.

Ask Maxwell Smart.

[rsdsharp]

6. Back in the late 80s, a lawyer in town (whose last name was Lawyer)

used to carry a phone in his brief case. It was literally the size of a HandiTalki (erroneously called WalkiTalki), and that was without the antenna extended.

[FakeNoose]

8. My dad had a "car phone" like that but it wasn't portable

It was too big to carry around, but it was installed in his car. My dad worked on construction sites and he had to be available by phone as he traveled from site to site. I think it linked up to the Telstar satellite or something. There were no cell towers back then.

In the 90's before we all got those silly flip phones, I knew a computer guy who had a "portable" phone that he used carry around. It must have weighed 10 pounds. The connectivity was terrible too, didn't seem like it was worth it (to me), but it was a status symbol for him. He had "clients" who would call at all times of the day or night, and ask computer-guy questions.

[wcmagumba]

12. When I was in middle school (late 60s) a guy from my church had one of those installed in his car for work, he was some

kind of construction co. manager. He drove some of us to and from some nice weekend church retreats at a lake and let us call home on the phone, so cool at the time. He also had a very cute daughter my same age and boy did I have a kiddie crush on her...fun days...

[LessAspin]

7. 📲 Cellular 📼

It's funny you bring this up because I just watched a 2004 movie Cellular

Pretty good movie inspired by the LAPD Ramparts scandal starring Kim Basinger, Chris Evans, and Jason Statham

The DVD 📀 contains a documentary about the LAPD Ramparts corruption case and another one about the evolution of cellular phones (as of 2004)

Of course even though smart phones were not a thing yet Chris Evans was able to upload a video 📸 from his camcorder to his flip phone 🤳