RadioShack Commercial From 1989 for the “Most Powerful, Transportable, Cellular Phone System” is Awesome

by: Kellex | posted 09.28.12 | News, Videos

“Go where you wanna go, call when you wanna call!” Sing it with me!

Cheers Josh!

KRS_Won

Who was driving the boat?
- Sp4rxx
  
  he was calling up the manufacturer to mail him a manual since the boat didn’t come with one….
Jive Turkey

Do this be one of dem free Obama phones? I needs to be gettin’ me one.
socalrailroader

Yep, and 23 years from now our cell phones will look just as outdated, I don’t get this “let’s make fun of old tech by comparing it to today’s tech”. It was those “big things” that made the “little things” possible
ScottM

Holy crap, I actually had one of those. That was my first “cell phone”. Brings back a lot of memories, mostly bad memories…
cheezer88

Only 799…after you save 350.
TheKenDroid4

If I had that battery purse for my T-bolt, I’ll bet I could make it past four hours without a recharge.
easy1jay

The next big thing is already here?
faber

lol, comments crack me up
faber

lol….comment s crack me up
eddy

nice mustache!! Matches nicely with the phone
John Jenness

Wow, $799 back then might as well have been a million bucks!
abqnm

Verizon is announcing this next week as the Motorola Droid BRIK.
S2556

I sure hope Verizon doesn’t pass on this one!!
Clint O

Can we get an AOKP port please?
Executor 32

My mom used to have a ridiculously big Radio Shack phone like that back in 1995, when she was doing a weekend paper route for extra Christmas cash. It came with a carry bag, though, which had separate compartments for the cellular radio and the battery (the biggest part of the phone), with a magnetic thing on the outside of the bag to clip the corded handset on.
redman479

Lol
ddevito

Can it be rooted?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Angel-Luis-Gonzalez-III/591224353 Angel Luis Gonzalez III

Still have this phone, didn’t want to lose my unlimited data
XvierX

I’ll wait for the “developer edition”. =p
nightscout13

$799?? After $340 savings? And people are bitchin about a $200 upgrade cost…..
- http://twitter.com/davidbavin David Bavin
  
  That was 23 years ago bro. Times change.
- abqnm
  
  With inflation, that comes to $1484.46…
  And just for reference, the $199 upgrade cost would have been $107.11 in 1989.
talkdj

I had one of those (I also had a moto 10 channel head end with a harris transmitter) was it a mittsubishi or an audiovox? Don’t remember…..still wish I had my Moto brick phone like the one Michael Dougals used on the beach watching the sun come up in the movie Wall Street, I loved that phone.
duke69111

I wonder if this thing actually go signal anywhere?
- kendokan
  
  You’d be surprised how much better voice quality we got back then.
Diablo81588

All month battery life!
JoeTi

That’s awesome!! It would surprise you how many bag phones I sold in 2008 that were not all that much smaller.
Work Procrastinator

Interesting that the price of a phone is about the same price after all these years.
- kendokan
  
  Capabilities aren’t though. Back then? No screen. No data. No texting. No cameras. No Bluetooth. No call waiting. You could make a phone call, and you could receive a phone call. And… yeah, that was it.
Steve S

I don’t know what is more amazing…that phone or the fact that Radio Shack is still in business!
Leo

Business is slow today huh lol
RoadsterHD1

Don’t make them like that anymore. Good times!!!
RoadsterHD1

I just upgraded from that. It was a great phone.
http://www.facebook.com/princesation Prince Dela Cruz

and people still complain about the prices for current phones … just be happy your money isn’t going towards bricks !
HuskerHog

I had one of these that would only connect to the cigarette light in the car.
http://twitter.com/g1701gst Greg

I think it has a bigger battery than my MAXX!
- talkdj
  
  I think it has a bigger battery than my ‘vette!
schmaltzy

Still better than an iPhone!
http://www.facebook.com/kevin.niven.1 Kevin Niven

Wow that makes my Motorola Razr look kick ass!!
http://twitter.com/garagelogician Jeff C

Look how far we’ve come.

Isn’t capitalism and the profit motive great?
http://bit.ly/n77abtme Nate

I wonder what coverage and speeds were at that time? lol
HotRodJohnson

Radio Shack Nexus!
jroth

Does this support Tethering at .00001kbs?
Don Demon

Im feeling old.
http://www.youtube.com/kimirPORTALS kimir

Still a better map than iOS Maps.
Tony Byatt

I love the top comment for that video…
Baconator

Ya! Save $340 TAKE MY MONEY!
DanWazz

Activated this through Pacific Bell, so I could “reach out and touch someone.”
al brown

hell, bet it gets ICS before the bionic
- shehippie
  
  LOL…you seriously just made me choke on my coffee! :p
- leoingle
  
  You sir win the comment of the week. Tell him what’s he’s won Bob!
- S.Ober
  
  WTF is Radio Shack
- Jonbo298
  
  Darnit, I’m only the 99th one to upvote this. So much win
- CopierITGuy
  
  Best…
  Comment…
  EVER!!!
richard melcher

If I could get 4G at work I would carry around a box that big.
Chris Marquardt

OMG I remember when those first came out. The “Brick” was the in thing back then. Just after your TV remote control was your kids. Thanks for reminding me how old I am
- kendokan
  
  The Motorola brick was my first cellular phone. Frankly the digital coverage is just now getting to the point where it’s as reliable as the old analog networks.
Sven Enterlein

Most excellent and transportable. Two people required. The word “carrier” gets a completely new meaning! (and I love the bubbly Radio Shack logo)
ace

Haha…My dad had one of those huge Motorola bag phones. It looked like a purse.
- Telly S
  
  It probably was a purse and he told you it was a phone. Did the color of his purse match his high heels, er, work boots?
T4rd

I still have mine. Sitting my my upgrade to see what’s around the corner because that’s what everyone keeps telling me to do.
Michael G

Bet it received Jelly Bean before the Nexus.
- TomStieger
  
  Before the Bionic gets ICS you mean!
  - Michael G
    
    lol Will it ever?!