Remember that this was back in '89, and the idea of being able to talk to someone anywhere there was service was revolutionary. People might one day say the same thing about how we carry 17 inch laptops around, instead of using their future technology that does some weird thing to make the screen large.
@@JayP7178 i posted this 14 years ago, in 2009, before even Google Glass was a thing. Last week we saw Apple introduce an ultra high resolution wearable with a desktop class computer chip that projects multiple monitors in the field of view. Right now it’s bulky, pricey, and the battery life is too low, but given a decade of innovation it could well lead to another computing revolution that replaces the laptop for many people
That's a good point! I just posted three different versions of the 1989 Centel commercial. Check it out: CENTEL - first cell phone ads - 1989 Yuppies - 3 Versions: 30 45 60 Sec - HIGH QUALITY!
Damn, the dude in the commercial is living the American dream! A totally cool black Jeep Wrangler, a great job, beautiful wife and kid, and a sweet speedboat in some equally beautiful background scenery.
I had one. I also had one of those car phones that came with a carrying case. They were a neat idea for the day, but totally impractical. Those ancient days of long ago were but a moment in time, and now we have phones with live video conversations. Where's my hoverboard?
Madison Velvet low capacity batteries that took forever to charge, and pay by the minute. No 'plan'. No 1000 mins per month, Rather it was $1.00/min, $2.00/min roaming.
@@Conniebunny They were impractical because nobody really needed one for that time. They were too big, too expensive, too cumbersome, and too heavy. It was kind of a headache to own one, but the novelty of it gave me a certain statues to peole who saw me with one, so there's at least that going for them. I don't regret owning one, but I'm glad our phones of today are what they are.
Now that is a man sized phone for an 80's guy who's lost in his Jeep at a fork in the road near a creek with some sheep and his woman's afloat with a kid in a boat. But the brick did the trick now he's back with his chick.
thats an classy ad , the scenery , the cute couple that are married with a daugther not just lovers, the sunset , the "Reunion in the end , music and even the early slide in CGI. classy ad
Thanks! I just posted three different versions of the 1989 Centel commercial. Check it out: CENTEL - first cell phone ads - 1989 Yuppies - 3 Versions: 30 45 60 Sec - HIGH QUALITY!
I have two real Motorola DynaTAC phones just like the one in the commercial. Believe it or not -- as heavy as they are -- they actually feel a lot more comfortable on your face than any new phone! They were designed to "hug" your face. I can't forsee that design language ever coming back, because smartphones today are primarily used as tablets and cameras rather than actual phones. The "phone" feature on a modern smartphone has really been demoted to only a secondary feature, unfortunately.
Its is truly amazing how far we have come in such little time. This commercial was aired 22 years ago. To me this is just mindblowing. To watch this and look at my iphone4 is truly awesome. Phones are so small today. Plus phones today like the iphone and android have so much to offer. I have to get props to phone developlers because back when I got my first phone i thought that they would never get smaller but I was wrong.
My sister worked for Centel Cellular. She did a commercial. She had a mobile and car phone, and bought them for my mother as well. My mother still has the flip phone, but of course it can't be used. My sister passed in 1991. She would be amazed at how far phones have come.
wow, i wasnt even born in the 80s but my cellphone fits right in my hand! man if i had one of these, i'd be tired with it! was verizon wireless even out then?
I remember Merv Griffen telling people to buy land on hills and mountain tops so they could lease it to cell tower companies. Wish I would have listened.....
This is what is so frustrating about the so called "stock music" industry, with the notable exception of "Network Music Ensemble", which sells their stock music on iTunes and Amazon MP3 and therefore adding them to Shazam (listen for "High Voltage" which was a recurring theme song from ESPN in 1989).... Other companies could be making money selling their music (like this one) but they don't....
I just posted three different versions of the 1989 Centel commercial. Check it out: CENTEL - first cell phone ads - 1989 Yuppies - 3 Versions: 30 45 60 Sec - HIGH QUALITY!
Really, I thought of now days, people spend a lot of the time on their smart phones, it is true that people connect with each other more than before, but sometimes, I feel like some evolution could be bad. A phone's use is just to call someone and talk to them, but now, people are just wasting their times on games on their smart phones, or even social media, which causes people to spend less time with other that are close to them, like their family members, right now we just text with our friends on our devices and talk less with people that are close to us. This is just my own opinion, please don't judge me, thanks. :) Also when I put this post, I also include myself, I know I'm not an exception, so don't say I'm a hypocrite.
Well it depends on the person. I too use my smartphone to play games and such but not when my wife and kids are around. If people regulate their schedule correction and under stand the meaning of family time then it wouldnt be a problem.
Wow how everything in the ad has come a long way. Camera quality is super clear and basically true to real life colors now, self-driving electric cars are becoming common, cellphones -oh don’t get me started on cellphones, how they went from a brick that only made selective calls to a super computing hand sized device. We are very ungrateful as cellphones do so much nowadays and we don’t even think about this. High quality cameras with many different complex filters that can even make photos realistically move, adding AR to a live view of your surroundings etc etc a cellphone camera alone we can go on forever about, then you have video calls, gps, navigation, gaming, alarm clock, calculator, web browser, texting, email, sending photos/vids, sending location, boarding pass, auto/health insurance card, control your tv (and other smart devices), reminders, apps where you can view what’s happening at home via a WiFi cam, etc etc it’s literally an endless amount of things in one. Crazy.
how nice it would be to go back to when phones were used for really talking to people. we've gone too far now, and soon we'll just quit speaking entirely. the new communication will be just to touch our phones together, and after the phone reads our mind, the words will appear on the screen or something "telemagically." you know it's coming. it will be an even sadder day and time than these we're in now.
Just watched this on my Galaxy Note. Best phone ever for watching videos. Phones back then made calls. Phones now have high def screens, digital cameras, full html internet, games and much more. Imagine cell phones 20 years from now!
growing up in a small town in iowa, i NEVER actually saw someone using a cel phone of any size in person until almost the mid 90's. I dont recall ever seeing anyone with a cel phone in person during the 80's except for maybe on TV.
Not only DID they have cordless phones, they went MUCH farther! I used to be able to use my cordless phone more than a mile away from my house, and in 1983 we had an external antenna on the cordless phone where I worked and we could go a couple of miles. Before cellphones you could make phone calls from a car with radiotelephone, but very few people had them and we had to have our calls patched in through an operator. I talked on a cellphone in 1984.
Malls had several pay phones, and they were actually being used by many people at once. It's rare to even see a payphone around here now, let alone someone using it.
This ad is from the year I was born! Cell phones in the 80's were ridiculously big lol. I remember the ones my parents had in the 90's, also very big! :P
I used to work as a telephone operator connecting car phone calls in 1984. Back then it seemed like a really exotic thing. They needed operators to make the connection, the operator had to fill out long forms, even for short calls.
Pretty nice how cell phones used to be big, heavy, and expensive, and now common people have them and they come in microscopic sizes. Plus, we now have the internet.
I got issued with one in 88 that I had to carry in a suitcase. When you open the lid, you had to grab a handset and dial the number like you would for a landline phone. It was insanely heavy. However it was a real cellphone in 1988
i guess no one imagined cell phones would be number one cause of car accidents 30 years later when they made this ad, and decided to put a man calling from his car
recently i found several old cell phone ads in old magazines. They're so so funny! "You can talk for a long time- up to thirty minutes" "Hold the numbers of up to fifteen of your friends"
While the cell phone is big, I can just imagine the reception back then, you "might" be able to make a call in about 3 states in the entire country with the amount of towers they had back then.
Wow we've come a LONG way as far as technology. Funny to think in 20 years from now the technology we're currently using will be ancient and obsolete too.
Remember that this was back in '89, and the idea of being able to talk to someone anywhere there was service was revolutionary. People might one day say the same thing about how we carry 17 inch laptops around, instead of using their future technology that does some weird thing to make the screen large.
We're actually getting close now with ar and vr, just needs better resolution and smaller form factor.
U must have been a sexy babe back then
Tech seems to be running out of surprises now.
@@JayP7178 i posted this 14 years ago, in 2009, before even Google Glass was a thing. Last week we saw Apple introduce an ultra high resolution wearable with a desktop class computer chip that projects multiple monitors in the field of view. Right now it’s bulky, pricey, and the battery life is too low, but given a decade of innovation it could well lead to another computing revolution that replaces the laptop for many people
@@JayP7178 apple vision pro. You can zone into another world and become a zombie
I just hope that dock can hold that jeep
That's a good point! I just posted three different versions of the 1989 Centel commercial. Check it out: CENTEL - first cell phone ads - 1989 Yuppies - 3 Versions: 30 45 60 Sec - HIGH QUALITY!
5 years later and this was the first thing I wondered as well
Damn, the dude in the commercial is living the American dream! A totally cool black Jeep Wrangler, a great job, beautiful wife and kid, and a sweet speedboat in some equally beautiful background scenery.
i wish my life was more like this commercial
I had one. I also had one of those car phones that came with a carrying case. They were a neat idea for the day, but totally impractical. Those ancient days of long ago were but a moment in time, and now we have phones with live video conversations. Where's my hoverboard?
You got to experience the joy of life in the 1980's lucky guy
Black Entertainment History when did they start celling this cellphone?
Madison Velvet low capacity batteries that took forever to charge, and pay by the minute. No 'plan'. No 1000 mins per month, Rather it was $1.00/min, $2.00/min roaming.
@@Conniebunny They were impractical because nobody really needed one for that time. They were too big, too expensive, too cumbersome, and too heavy. It was kind of a headache to own one, but the novelty of it gave me a certain statues to peole who saw me with one, so there's at least that going for them. I don't regret owning one, but I'm glad our phones of today are what they are.
Now that is a man sized phone for an 80's guy who's lost in his Jeep at a fork in the road near a creek with some sheep and his woman's afloat with a kid in a boat. But the brick did the trick now he's back with his chick.
This is one of the greatest comments I've ever seen. Absolute madlad.
thats an classy ad , the scenery , the cute couple that are married with a daugther not just lovers, the sunset , the "Reunion in the end , music and even the early slide in CGI. classy ad
It was a different world. Indeed!
I remember the cell phones my family had in the 90s, they were really big. Anyway, this ad is awesome.
Thanks! I just posted three different versions of the 1989 Centel commercial. Check it out: CENTEL - first cell phone ads - 1989 Yuppies - 3 Versions: 30 45 60 Sec - HIGH QUALITY!
I totally remember that commercial and how amazed I was to think that I could never afford one 😏
Looking at this now it is just amazing how phones evolved
I don't know why, but I would really like to have one of those brick sized phones.
***** I didnt know about those! Thanks for the info:)
Thanks Frog!
I have two real Motorola DynaTAC phones just like the one in the commercial. Believe it or not -- as heavy as they are -- they actually feel a lot more comfortable on your face than any new phone! They were designed to "hug" your face. I can't forsee that design language ever coming back, because smartphones today are primarily used as tablets and cameras rather than actual phones. The "phone" feature on a modern smartphone has really been demoted to only a secondary feature, unfortunately.
They have replicas on ebay and they work! I think u just insert your sd card
Lol...🤩
Its is truly amazing how far we have come in such little time. This commercial was aired 22 years ago. To me this is just mindblowing. To watch this and look at my iphone4 is truly awesome. Phones are so small today. Plus phones today like the iphone and android have so much to offer. I have to get props to phone developlers because back when I got my first phone i thought that they would never get smaller but I was wrong.
i am from the future
size actually increased ..
:)
Just added this to my music video playlist.
Freaking amazing, the first thing I did when I got my cell phone was drive to a pier just like that!
I ♥ watching old ads !
I actually take that back. It's the smoothing music you get on hold before being switched over to a call center in India
Centel, the company in this ad, was later acquired by Verizon (if memory serves me right...)
Yes. Recorded from ESPN in May of 1989.
okay, thanks for the info
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@@9xnrdiii makes sense
Wow this made me really want to buy that car! Very effective ad!
Oh My God, This Is Magic!
This commercial is as old as me
My sister worked for Centel Cellular. She did a commercial. She had a mobile and car phone, and bought them for my mother as well. My mother still has the flip phone, but of course it can't be used. My sister passed in 1991. She would be amazed at how far phones have come.
Your Sister is the lady in this cellphone commercial??
@@pitolove71 No it's not this one. I think it may have been a local one.
HOLY Shit what memories!!!! I remember playing with my dad's phone it was heavy. Awsome vid !!!!
So vaporwave...
I knew I was going to see it somewhere in the comment section ;)
digtbk this is the sample used for You Can Live Here by Auto and Tahiti TV by Vektroid!
YES !!! I never appreciated the theme music or anything like that back then. I love vaporware style. I miss having malls in every town.
wow, i wasnt even born in the 80s but my cellphone fits right in my hand! man if i had one of these, i'd be tired with it! was verizon wireless even out then?
verizon was founded in 1983
At $1-$2.00 per minute, you wouldn't be using it very often. That was the talk time rate back then.
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He died of coronavirus
I remember Merv Griffen telling people to buy land on hills and mountain tops so they could lease it to cell tower companies.
Wish I would have listened.....
Damn! Look how small that cellular telephone is! I mean it's a full phone right in my hand!!
That call probably cost him $700
I like this music. I wish I knew who the composer is/was.
This is what is so frustrating about the so called "stock music" industry, with the notable exception of "Network Music Ensemble", which sells their stock music on iTunes and Amazon MP3 and therefore adding them to Shazam (listen for "High Voltage" which was a recurring theme song from ESPN in 1989).... Other companies could be making money selling their music (like this one) but they don't....
I just posted three different versions of the 1989 Centel commercial. Check it out: CENTEL - first cell phone ads - 1989 Yuppies - 3 Versions: 30 45 60 Sec - HIGH QUALITY!
I would think twice about parking my Jeep on a dock like that. Kudos for the muzak, too.
lol the evolution of cellphones
... damn i still remember those ... i called it "the brick "
Really, I thought of now days, people spend a lot of the time on their smart phones, it is true that people connect with each other more than before, but sometimes, I feel like some evolution could be bad. A phone's use is just to call someone and talk to them, but now, people are just wasting their times on games on their smart phones, or even social media, which causes people to spend less time with other that are close to them, like their family members, right now we just text with our friends on our devices and talk less with people that are close to us. This is just my own opinion, please don't judge me, thanks. :) Also when I put this post, I also include myself, I know I'm not an exception, so don't say I'm a hypocrite.
Well it depends on the person. I too use my smartphone to play games and such but not when my wife and kids are around. If people regulate their schedule correction and under stand the meaning of family time then it wouldnt be a problem.
This comment is made 6 years ago. You are way ahead of your time...
it's was a big ass phone
Wow how everything in the ad has come a long way. Camera quality is super clear and basically true to real life colors now, self-driving electric cars are becoming common, cellphones -oh don’t get me started on cellphones, how they went from a brick that only made selective calls to a super computing hand sized device. We are very ungrateful as cellphones do so much nowadays and we don’t even think about this. High quality cameras with many different complex filters that can even make photos realistically move, adding AR to a live view of your surroundings etc etc a cellphone camera alone we can go on forever about, then you have video calls, gps, navigation, gaming, alarm clock, calculator, web browser, texting, email, sending photos/vids, sending location, boarding pass, auto/health insurance card, control your tv (and other smart devices), reminders, apps where you can view what’s happening at home via a WiFi cam, etc etc it’s literally an endless amount of things in one. Crazy.
The first soft core cell phone ad.
how nice it would be to go back to when phones were used for really talking to people. we've gone too far now, and soon we'll just quit speaking entirely. the new communication will be just to touch our phones together, and after the phone reads our mind, the words will appear on the screen or something "telemagically." you know it's coming. it will be an even sadder day and time than these we're in now.
deal gramma
old people *eye roll*
#vaporwave
This took me WAYYYYYYYY back!
Just watched this on my Galaxy Note. Best phone ever for watching videos. Phones back then made calls. Phones now have high def screens, digital cameras, full html internet, games and much more. Imagine cell phones 20 years from now!
I had one of these when they first came out, took it to a car auction in Wales and they thought it was some sort of magic!
Wow cell phones have come a LONG way in the last 20 years.. Wonder what they'll look like in the next 20 years??? I can only imagine!!
wow just wow & look at where we are today
If it weren't for your title then I would never of guessed this was a cell phone ad
growing up in a small town in iowa, i NEVER actually saw someone using a cel phone of any size in person until almost the mid 90's. I dont recall ever seeing anyone with a cel phone in person during the 80's except for maybe on TV.
Not only DID they have cordless phones, they went MUCH farther! I used to be able to use my cordless phone more than a mile away from my house, and in 1983 we had an external antenna on the cordless phone where I worked and we could go a couple of miles. Before cellphones you could make phone calls from a car with radiotelephone, but very few people had them and we had to have our calls patched in through an operator. I talked on a cellphone in 1984.
phones also existed on planes!
Beautiful actress in here
I had a motorolla bag phone myself. The reception and coverage of that thing was incredible.
Malls had several pay phones, and they were actually being used by many people at once. It's rare to even see a payphone around here now, let alone someone using it.
I love how he just picks the phone up whilst driving lol, how times change!
In the U.S., you still can 😂
Why did 55 people dislike this? This is RAD!
Ahaha...my dad used to have one of those! It's still somewhere in our basement buried with all of his other junk lol.
Back then, folks can't imagine life with mobile phones. Now we can't imagine a life without mobile phones.
This ad is from the year I was born! Cell phones in the 80's were ridiculously big lol. I remember the ones my parents had in the 90's, also very big! :P
I used to work as a telephone operator connecting car phone calls in 1984. Back then it seemed like a really exotic thing. They needed operators to make the connection, the operator had to fill out long forms, even for short calls.
Its funny how now you can watch these ads in your phone! Like me =)
Pretty nice how cell phones used to be big, heavy, and expensive, and now common people have them and they come in microscopic sizes.
Plus, we now have the internet.
I got issued with one in 88 that I had to carry in a suitcase. When you open the lid, you had to grab a handset and dial the number like you would for a landline phone.
It was insanely heavy. However it was a real cellphone in 1988
wow! it looks like had better cell connectivity in remote areas than we do now.
Who's watching this in 2021?
They were so expensive back then. Oh the good old days.
I just watched this on my touch screen phone. I wonder what would happen if we went back and showed them the cell phones of 2013
We've come a long way in cellphones since then.
i guess no one imagined cell phones would be number one cause of car accidents 30 years later when they made this ad, and decided to put a man calling from his car
I'm grateful for the fact that my cellphone can fit in my pocket.
recently i found several old cell phone ads in old magazines. They're so so funny! "You can talk for a long time- up to thirty minutes" "Hold the numbers of up to fifteen of your friends"
damn these "cellular phones" seem like they make your life fairly exciting and picturesque.
wow, with one of these babies i could really stay on the go!!!
You were the coolest person on the planet if you had one of these!
Lmfao this was litrally the year i was born 🤣🤣 29 years later watching this ad on my samsung galaxy s10 plus
He gets better reception than I do!
The times when things were so much simpler with such simple technology. we should have stopped aging in this era!!
gotta love how they promote their cell phone and a jeep wrangler at the same time.
I love the way that they're marketing it so that you can talk in your car, which is illegal now xD
Aha. I have one of the first cell phones, it was my dads old one. Its funny looking back on these and laughing at the size of them back then. XD
While the cell phone is big, I can just imagine the reception back then, you "might" be able to make a call in about 3 states in the entire country with the amount of towers they had back then.
The first cell phone provider in our area was Centel. It eventually evolved into Verizon.
Wow phones have come a long way
A typical 80's paradise of this earth. I wonder how the real paradise is...
The original V A P O R W A V E . . .
Wow we've come a LONG way as far as technology. Funny to think in 20 years from now the technology we're currently using will be ancient and obsolete too.
If only we stopped there
we have come a long way in cellphones havent we? wow
We may get back there again with this smart phone thing...phone and laptop combo!
Can't wait to see what's happening in 20 years.
30 years ago and that was considered high tech for it's time!! Imagine would cell phones will be like in 30 more years lol
this is almost like an AOL ad "where people connect" AOL's first ad should be like this
That's my jam.
lmfao. Wow.
if you still have one of these..they would make a good object in history
HAHAHA i was just thinki9ng about old phone ads like yesterday and i was going to look it up but this just showed up HAHAHAHAHA
WOW, I could power my house from that mobile, lol, I remember my Dad having one of those.
My how far humanity has come
Imagine going back in time and explaining to them about the the iPhone.
man that phone is so hi tek ! , lol it is so amazing .. we have come so far !
Those cellphones had two uses: 1) Calling people, and, 2) cooking anything within six inches of the antenna.
yes, 21 years later the audio quality in a call is practically the same!
Man I wish I was back in the 80s
Ahhhhh!!! Radiation!!!!!
man if you had a cellphone back then...the babes were all over you!!
went from this to the droid and iphone and i could go on forever...