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TV Chat

a kennedy

(34,217 posts) Fri Aug 1, 2025, 05:53 PM Aug 1

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

Watching a movie from 2003.

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Ha ha, love the older movies when "cell phones" were the size of a shoe!! [View all] a kennedy Aug 1 OP

Last month customerserviceguy Aug 1 #1

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 wcmagumba Aug 1 #2

Didn't Those Things Weigh Around 4#? ProfessorGAC Aug 2 #9

Yup, it was a beast...I've been around a while and seen a few phones... wcmagumba Aug 2 #10

Or when there were tiny flip phones that had antennas you had to pull up, Ocelot II Aug 1 #3

I had one of those too... wcmagumba Aug 2 #11

Older phones? OC375 Aug 1 #4

Almost took a recent call on my watch. usonian Aug 1 #5

Back in the late 80s, a lawyer in town (whose last name was Lawyer) rsdsharp Aug 1 #6

My dad had a "car phone" like that but it wasn't portable FakeNoose Aug 2 #8

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 wcmagumba Aug 2 #12

📲 Cellular 📼 LessAspin Aug 1 #7

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