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Looks to be one of the first mobile phones from RadioShack back in the 80s.
The price was $799 at the time. But don't worry it included service.

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Added: Sep-23-2012 
By: ZombieNinjaJudo
In: Other Entertainment
Tags: phone, mobile, cellphone, 1980, radioshack
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  • Yes, it made me giggle. Imagine our grand kids laughing their butts of at iPhone 5...

    It will happen though...

    Posted Sep-23-2012 By 
    Justice Dealer (98.94)

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  • Now Radio Shack sucks gerbil p__is

    Posted Sep-23-2012 By 
    hamburger (562.50)  

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    • @hamburger No kidding!! I went in the buy a PL-259 coax connector the other day and the fellow said that they hadn't carried tehm in quite a while. That connector is one of the most basic "radio" necessities that I can think of.

      Posted Sep-24-2012 By 
      11k29 (204.22)  

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  • lol

    Posted Sep-23-2012 By 
    absu69 (2108.94)

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  • And how the technology has gone backwards since. Bulkier than ever, cluttered with barely necessary functions and seemingly essential to every moment of our lives.

    Reducing the size was progress - integrating "social media" in to phones, not so much.
    Anyone else miss being able to sit in a bar with all your friends without at least 1 person glued to their digital life-support system?

    Posted Sep-24-2012 By 
    Rowhan (139.40)  

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  • I would have lugged this around at the beach also.

    Posted Sep-23-2012 By 
    RAC3CAR (1163.74)  

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  • Looks like an old Mobira unit (before Nokia bought into them and later changed the name).

    Posted Sep-24-2012 By 
    11k29 (204.22)  

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  • holy shit

    Posted Sep-24-2012 By 
    stalebiscuit (285.10)  

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  • $799 in the '80s would equal between $1600 and $2200 today depending on what year in the '80s.

    Posted Sep-23-2012 By 
    EmrysM (1845.56)  

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  • I tell you what, if you can find one of those phones and get it activated, it absolutely blows the new ones away. The battery lasts forever, it gets service anywhere, and you may as well be talking on a wired landline as far as call quality. This new stuff is garbage and they still try to charge you $700+ for them.

    Posted Sep-23-2012 By 
    kajidono (686.26)  

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    • @kajidono
      That's because this was a simple largely analogue system. Present day systems use a great deal of digital compression to try and maximise the carriers spectrum usage and profits. They can get more calls into the same spectrum space which they have to buy from the government.

      Posted Sep-23-2012 By 
      whogoesthere (258.98)  

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    • @whogoesthere I thought it was allocated frequencies. Doesn't really matter as they make many times more than whatever fees they pay in profits.

      As far as present day, I actually found one of these giant phones that was still working as recently as two years ago. It worked perfectly in the deep valley in the mountains of West Virginia. Anyone familiar with that area will know what I mean when I say that you can only get signal there on a modern phone on the highest ridges and only if you're luc More..

      Posted Sep-23-2012 By 
      kajidono (686.26)  

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    • @kajidono The original cell system had 666 channels, and that had to be split between at least two carriers (competition). Only 4 years later, carriers went back to the govt as they needed more. Govt gave them 166 additional channels for a total of 832, but told the carriers that there would be no more allocation. This is the original reason carriers started experimenting with digital. Todays CDMA technology (Verizon Wireless) can now cram approx 60 wireless calls into the space that used to More..

      Posted Sep-24-2012 By 
      11k29 (204.22)  

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    • @11k29 Yeah, while cutting out and dropping calls on purpose. They call it the system "breathing." I asked them if the system should be breathing at 3am and they had no answer.

      Posted Sep-24-2012 By 
      kajidono (686.26)  

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  • Wow, that thing makes the brick phones look like Razrs.

    Posted Sep-23-2012 By 
    WolfBite120 (718.50)  

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  • I wonder how good the coverage was for Radio Shacks carrier system?

    Posted Sep-23-2012 By 
    whogoesthere (258.98)  

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  • Ha! I still have my bag phone... Oh, and my Motorola Brick...

    Posted Sep-23-2012 By 
    ILovePickles (429.46)  

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  • LOOL

    Posted Sep-23-2012 By 
    Obeyak (148.70)  

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  • Those humans look same like us in the 80's

    Posted Sep-23-2012 By 
    tesko (75.20)  

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  • It also came with an optional hands free helmet!

    Posted Sep-23-2012 By 
    djdjr (407.38)  

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