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* A man arrested in Egypt was able to contact his bosses for help by using his cell phone and Twitter to announce what had happened. The people on his Twitter follow list contacted people in the US and got him released.
* Cell phones with cameras are banned from gyms so that people can't take pictures of other gym goers in the shower and post them to the internet, cell phone cameras generally now all play an audible sound when taking photos due to concerns about peeping toms and [[The Chikan|subway perverts]].
* Flash Mobs are assembled on short notice via
* If something was filmed in the [[The Nineties|late '90s]] or [[Turn of the Millennium|early '00s]] in the UK, expect to see a [[Nokia]] 5110 (known as the Nokia Brick for its size, weight and indestructibility). The first phone to crack the mass market
** It's since been surpassed by the [[wikipedia:Nokia 1100|Nokia 1100]], which is smaller, every bit as indestructible, and with over 200 million units shifted is said to be the single best-selling ''consumer electronic device'' ever.
** Prior to the [[media:Nokia Brick.jpg|Nokia Brick]] was the even more
** And then there's equally iconic, if less ubiquitous [[wikipedia:Motorola RAZR|Motorola RAZR]], a classic clamshell that for much of the 00's held the title of thinnest and most stylish phone around.
* [[Hugh Jackman]] and [[Daniel Craig]] called out an audience member whose cellphone ringer went off in the middle of a stage performance. Many stage actors will do this, and sometimes without breaking character.
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