40 Years of the Cell Phone: Photos

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i've been told that for a while people in india used to pay a premium for the old 'brick' style cellular phones, because if you were packing a brick, that suggested that you had been able to afford one back in the days when they were REALLY expensive! :)
 
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if i can remember right, my phones in order:first was a Motorola Startac, then a digital Startac, then a Samsung a540, then a Motorola Razr (as pictured above), another Samsung flip that i can't remember the model # of, an Iphone 3gs, Galaxy nexus, Galaxy Nexus 2, to my current Samsung S3
 
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PeaceGuy said:
My first was the original Motorola 'Brick' phone (right). I bought new in 1980. Used it until Telus shut down their analog network (2003-04?). Great phone for northern areas back in the day when the tower network was sparse.
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Sorry, but BC cellular was the original cellular company name, started by now Telus, was started in 1985. I had a car phone in 1987 and then a transportable in 1989, the first portable was the Motorola 8000, the huge one in the first photo in Vanessa's OP, appeared in Canada in @ 1990. The slimmer version the 8000m or executive was a year later I had both of those as well. I have had probably 20 odd phones to date.
 
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I wonder what is the longest a person has kept a phone.... ? Did those brick size phones back in the day last any longer?[
Hell Ya!!! I left mine on the roof of my car a few time times and drove off, watched it bounce on the road in my re view mirror, worked everytime.
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tadolder said:
Sorry, but BC cellular was the original cellular company name, started by now Telus, was started in 1985. I had a car phone in 1987 and then a transportable in 1989, the first portable was the Motorola 8000, the huge one in the first photo in Vanessa's OP, appeared in Canada in @ 1990. The slimmer version the 8000m or executive was a year later I had both of those as well. I have had probably 20 odd phones to date.
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You are correct but in those days Alberta had AGT Mobility. Then they merged making Telus to take on Bell and Rogers who were dominating in Western Canada.

Funny thing is I call on the networks for business and one guy started a mobile phone museum of every phone ever offered on their network. Those Motorola Bricks were popular with the construction sites because they could double as a hammer in a pinch :nod:
 
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Umm, true but not relevant to my post.

BC cellular wasn't offering services in the market in Alberta. Telus ran the mobile phone system I used in Alberta when the the analog system was shut down, having bought AGT when it went private.
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Didn't realize you were talking about alberta.
 
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chevy529 said:
I bought my bag phone in 1994 and used it till they abandoned analogue. I still have it.

As an aside, when I Googled it for a picture I found a site still selling them for about $200 and thought, "Where could you use it?" I have no idea.
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Some 3rd World countries have bought some of the old analogue and early digital systems. There was a company in Western Canada that refurbished the systems and also checked out the old mobiles. Prior to that, South America was a big buyer of old systems but they have now gone digital.
 
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I remember mine was a blue Nokia (not sure the model) and it was a brick, at least by today's standards. One thing I will say for it was it got better call reception than any other phone I have owned and dropped maybe 3 calls over the 3 or so years I had it.
 
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