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* Naturally, given the setting, Cell Phones play a major role in ''[[The Wire]]''. In the first season, the drug communication is all done on pay phones and pagers, to avoid taps. In later seasons (when those pay phones have all been torn out), the gangs buy short-term phones in bulk from all over the state of Maryland so they can stay one step ahead of the court orders.

* While most teenage drama's characters use cell phones a lot ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' is probably the most prominant example. They not only call and text each other about a hundred times a day, they pull of plots against each other by manipulating cell phones, they steal each other's phones to make copies of the information on them, they take pictures and video clips which they later use for various purposes... And of course the blasts from Gossip Girl herself are all sent to the main characters' phones via text.

* ''[[Switched at Birth]]'' uses text messaging as the go-to means of telecommunication between characters as much of the cast is deaf. They have access to TTYs but tend not to use them; when a mainstream technology appears that replaces a clunky special-needs workaround, the latter tends to fade away.

* ''[[Switched at Birth (TV series)|Switched at Birth]]'' uses text messaging as the go-to means of telecommunication between characters as much of the cast is deaf. They have access to TTYs but tend not to use them; when a mainstream technology appears that replaces a clunky special-needs workaround, the latter tends to fade away.