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Ah, the '90s. The hospital my dad practiced at gave both him and my mother two of these "cellular" phones free in 1992 and paid for his service bills. Every time they gave him newer models we would get to play with the previous ones. In 2nd grade I remember walking around with one of these at recess pretending to be a businessman or "talking to my lawyer".
@@technologyproductions-ye3px it's illegal to be talking on the phone while driving if it is in your hand like the guy in the video was doing. KROSS777RLSH is absolutely right.
I remember using that phone about 9-10 years ago. It's amazing how far Cellies have come in such a short time. I remember having the "First Color Cell Phone", and that was amazing only 6 years ago. Incredible.
I was born in December '98. So I remember the internet and cell phones were _still_ novelties, even after 2000, but I had _No Idea_ that the flip-phone required an entire 2-minute infomercial! My! How times have changed!
I gotta say, there was nothing like hanging up a flip phone. That call was officially disconnected. Now I get to hear you talk shit about me after you think you've hit the end call button. Then I get "ass-dialed" after I disconnect from eavesdropping for 20 minutes.
this a great find, I love how although the phone only costs $19.95, you get a beautiful leatherette case thats worth $25! More than the phone itself! What a deal :)
When I was growing up, both my parents had this phone. Back then you had to drain the battery before recharging it, so I remember hearing the low battery signal for some time before it was charged. People often had 2-3 batteries on them lol.
My mom got one of these, but through the hospital where she worked (nurse). The plans were CRAZY expensive so neither of my parents cared to get one for personal use. I remember as a kid I would call people off the cell phone and my mom would freak out because it wasn't for personal calling. lol It also did have the beautiful leather case.
Ah, the days of expensive rates where your bill would be in the hundreds. If I traveled back in time to the 90's and showed them my android phone from metropcs and told them i'm paying $50 a month for unlimited calling, texting and internet, I wonder what their reactions would be?
My first "mobile" phone (I use that term loosely here) was bolted to the wall behind the driver seat of my company car. It was possible to detach it, but it weighed about 10 kilos. The sound quality and cost of a call resembled that of the moon landings. I remember people staring at it in awe (yes, the phone). Since then, I have had a wide range of brick phones. I stopped being amazed of smallmess somewhere around the Ericsson T10s and the Nokia 8810i.
we've come a long way.. i've alwayz been a moto fan, i remember when the RAZR first came out every body waz like :O wtf how they do that?:O we've come a long way..... HELLO MOTO.
Seems like a surprisingly old commercial for one that was actually produced when the internet was already popular. During the first few seconds I was getting an early 90s ('92-94ish) vibe, but it was obviously more recent.
@blinkingblythe This was the DPC 550 model introduced in 1995. The current new phone at the time was the StarTac completed in 1995 and released on January 4, 1996. That version introduced the "clamshell" design.
@Trance88 It was released on April 25, 1989, but reached more retailers by late 1989 and 1990. Most people until 1994 had the larger original DynaTac phone.
A friend of mine bought that phone at Best buy in 1992. I remember whenever we were in a public place and it rang, everyone would stop talking and look - LOL! He used to make fun of people with the older, larger phones.
This is much better than my touch screen. I gave a call to replace it with this wonderful cellular device, but no answer. So much for customer service.
My mother had one of these more than a decade ago. At the time, it seemed like it was pretty small... but it was heavy enough that you could beat somebody to death with it.
Had my first cellular phone in 1995. It was a Audiovox bag phone (or car phone as I used it). Was $99.99 and came with battery and charger. I remember my plan was $50.00/month and 20 minutes talk time. Had the phone for just over 6 years. I have a Blackberry Tour now that was $130.00 and $80.00/Month with unlimited text, date, nights & Weekends minutes and 450 minutes prime call time.
There used to be 2 cellular carriers in each metro area, A and B. Like Romeo and Juliet btw thanks to PCS, AWS and 700mhz carriers (like Verizon & At&t) covered almost everywhere with native coverage & less spotty/roaming
cell phones used to suck. I remember my dad used to have cellular one and he had one of those huge phones. About 50% of the time when I'd call him i'd get the "Welcome to Cellular One, the number you are trying to reach is unavailable or out of range..."
I had that phone in high school sophomore year and a beeper just to play that I was some sort of pimp. Little did they know they were not connected. I used to flip the off and on button to pretend I was getting a page. Lol.
@BoogsterSU2 Yes , Verizon is a conglomerate of companies including cellular one. AT&T and Cingular were both separate companies, AT&T just bought them out , same with sprint.
the bottom flap, i have an anolog similar i cant remember where i put it and it looks like the 650 but it says piper, but it also has the same screen as the 550, the model is 650e piper, its from metro pcs.
I had the flip phone when I was 18 and I loved it, It was $1.00 for the phone $24.99 activation fee. And calls were $1.00 per minute. I got it at Pc Richards And Son. it was awesome. I don't remember what the monthly minutes allowance was and how many minutes I was getting. I think it was $29.99 per month with 60minutes talk time, anything over 60 $1.00 per minute.
I didn't see anything about a contract being required. If I buy one of these hot phones for $19.95 with the free leather case and don't do anything with it, do I get to keep it for no additional charge?
@buzznugget our society lost that skill when as verrie77 said texting arrived but also people focusing on holding a phone up to their ear and listening to someone on the phone takes their mind off the road
Did the annoucer man just said, "Put it in your pocket or purse?" I don't know about any of you, but I DEF. could not fit that thing into MY pocket, hahahaha!!!
I just went through my Quicken backups from 1996-1998, and my old cell phone bills were in there. I was seriously surprised how cheap they were, the highest bill was only $35, and most of them were in the $25 dollar range. I didn't use the phone that much because the battery life was so bad, so maybe that was just the base rate.
I had one of those things. I bought the high capacity battery which weighed about half a pound and provided a whole 90 minutes or so of standby time...
