Video: Cheesy cell phone commercials of yore
I can't believe how much these made me full of want.
My first cell phone was an Ericsson CF688 on AT&T Wireless (original incarnation). I got it in roughly 1998. I bought this model instead of some of the flashier ones because it was small. I modified it with a new antenna and smaller battery to make it pocketable. I loved that phone.
Not many years before that, though, portable phones were large. We all remember the brick "Zack Morrison" phones, but do you remember the ads? They were fantastic.
Oobject has put together a collection of some of the best, with my favorite embedded above. Is it just me, or does that seem like a pretty good plan in that ad?