Early Motorola Flip Phone commercial
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What! Only $19.95!!! I'm bout to call that number now lol think they are still in stock?? 😂😂
+mtmstang23 It was but calls were a $1/min and one had to buy minimum 50 minutes; I know I had one.
Calling!
😂
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".
I had one of these in 1996. The carrier was Airtouch
0:33 is illegal now XDD
Not really
technology productions 2018
Well you gotta have a blue tooth to do so now anyways or have it on speaker .
..or duck tape it to the cranium lol
@@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.
@@briansharpe1931 it wasn't back then it is now keep in mind alot can change in a year.
@@technologyproductions-ye3px it has been illegal for years, you're wrong.
I forgot that no one wanted to give you unlimited calling during the business day.
I remember on my Sprint plan in 2005 they had a standard option to start unlimited time at 9 and an "upgrade" to 7 for a higher price.
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 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.
We used those in the 93 - 94 era ... former Cell/RF Eng here for MetroCel Cellular (DFW MSA).
Thanks for the vid!
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.
I love how it was glorifying talking while driving.
Lol. My parents got this phone when it first came out. I thought it was the coolest thing. Amazing how phones have evolved.
They evolved even more now
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?
Hello 8 years in the future
And now, 8 years later you can still get unlimited everything for about that same price or less, with no contract!
**9 years ago**
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.
Those were the phones to have back in the day. One of my older siblings had one in the mid nineties.
OMG, people using their mobiles and driving at the same time - blast from the past!
Had this phone. Used it on the weekends.
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 :)
Oh man! My dad still has that phone somewhere.. it has the sweet leather case and everything.
Woah! Free evening AND weekend calling?!?!
I still have mine!
lol, that beautiful leather case looks like a BDSM mask for a perverted cell phone.
mihanich XD
Thought the same thing lol
@@adtg777 it looks like it costs three hundred bucks if you know what I mean
i am calling this number but nobody is answering!!!HELP!!!!
I really want to order one of these super advnaced flip phones
Try again George. Operators are standing by...
Try going on that new fangled internet to see if they have a website
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.
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.
:32 seconds, when talking on your cellphone while driving was encouraged!
Good one!
I had this exact phone. You could get different thicknesses of battery to extend the talk time. Seemed very slick at the time!
wow! that is totally rad! I need to get myself one of those cellular phones! I also want to get one of those cool personal radios!
Oh, man... I remember this commercial!
I got all my guys working on it right now..... And like a complete fuckin' douche bag, I took the day off!!
See, this boulder fits perfectly in the front pocket of a shirt!!
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.
Beautiful leather case? Lmao looked like they wrapped a cows ass around that phone.
Aha!
I had one of those after high school in the 90s, it was my first phone
This was my first cell phone in 1998.
My dad use to have one of those. I'd forgotten all about that phone until I saw this.
I still have mine. I got it around '92.
wow! i remember this commercial! i think this is from 1996 or 97 when cell phones were really taking off big! around 2001 everybody had a cell then.
all these conviences they are talking about in this commercial, it's hard to imagine life without them now.
I LOVE the beautiful leather case!
"I'm Batphone."
Love that beautiful leather case.
@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.
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.
This commercial really reminds you how inconvenient it was back in the day when we didn't have cell phones.
My grandma and my dad both had these from cellular one........crazy stuff!
Wow I remember this commercial!
@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.
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
I have that same phone! Damn I miss analog!!
Used to play with my dad's as a kid!
I want one of these so badly.
oh man...I remember those phones! you were the shit if you had the Motorola flip phones LOL!
Lmao " beautiful leather case" I'm like wtf is that thing lol
someone will buy it for sure!
Nostalgia 📞✨
1991 good guys store in CA it was 3 to pick from .i put the news paper adds on flicker
from 1991 to 1995 cell adds
This video is most likely from 1995. The model on the box is DPC 550 (at the 1:05 mark); according to Wikipedia, that's when that model came out.
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.
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.
Radiation!
Wow, this deal is better than some of the plans now
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.
I remember telling people I would call them at 7 pm. Cause that was when the free time started and on the weekends lmao
Can be use within a days.... Imagine if you buy your phone now and be told to wait until next monday to be able to use it..
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...
I love when that guy puts that HUGE phone in his shirt pocket! phahaha
0:24 that call went through really fast
20 years later....We as a species are a slave to our phones, a slave to computers, a slave to technology.
My dad used to have this cellphone. His was a blue color.
Our first mobile phone was a bag phone we got for buying lots of gasoline, but our second phone was a phone like this (ours was all black).
I got all my guys working on it right now! And let's change that meeting to 10.
wow that is really cool! I like these phones! I hate the phones from today.
please bring these back to the stores!
i like how the guy pronounces 'cellular' at the end ...
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.
@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.
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.
and there was a 12 month contract.
Wow how the years go by :/
Holy shit, I had that phone for a while!
I want one!
:31 This is why we drive and talk on the cell. It taught us to do that this early!
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.
Great thanks. I will add the info to the keywords.
Even though this commercial is from 1997 that phone has been around since the early 90's.
@warszawianka If you can read the disclaimer, the contract was actually only for a year.
That thing was freaking huge! I wonder how much it weighed.
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.
It's the Sliders Timer!
THAT FUCKING ANTENNA MAKES ME LAUGH SO HARD OH GOD I REEMBER HOW CRAPPY FLIP PHONES WERE Oh GOd HAHAHHHHA
I have a phone like that somewhere in my house!
WOW! THAT SCREEN IS WAY BETTER THAN MY IPHONE 5S SCREEN!!! ITS LIKE BETTER THAN RETNA!!!
*Sarcasum*
I'm sure the iPhone 5S sucks now lmao
I should try calling that number today, and see who picks up.
When I called the phone number, I got a s*x hotline. No joke.
I just tried and I get a message that the number isn't available in my calling area. Darn. I had my heart set on that phone.
@lunchboxxy 2005. Mine was very expensive($370) when I bought it in 2005, when it was a rare phone. By 2006-2007 everyone was getting them at cheap prices and that pissed me off as my little sister broke the screen around that time.
I'm going to call that number and order one soon...
wow, using a cell phone for emergency's? i never would have thought of that!
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.
Cellular One would be absorbed into AT&T in the early to mid-2000’s.
I actually have the same motorola microtac they show in this ad
Um...I'm pretty sure my grandparents had this phone...until about 5 years ago.
I WANT ONE!!!
phone is huge!!
woah!! OLD SCHOOL! lol.