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** Prior to the [[media:Nokia Brick.jpg|Nokia Brick]] was the even more brick-like [[media:Motorola Brick.jpg|Motorola DynaTAC]], the earliest cell phone. First released in 1983, it weighed almost two pounds, was 10 inches long and came with a whopping price tag of $4,000. It mostly shown in fiction now as a joke. In an '80s setting it's used to show off someone's wealth, while doubling as a sight gag because it's so ridiculously huge. If it's shown in the '90s (say after the Nokia phones came out), their intention is to show the character is a loser who can't afford the newer, lighter Nokias.
** 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.
** In the case of Japan and Japanese media, the [[Wikipedia:Japanese mobile phone culture|garakei]] ("Galapagos phone", from the term describing the isolated development of Japanese technology that solely fits local needs) was absolutely iconic. Usually a clamshell similar to the RAZR, garakei phones tended towards being much more advanced, with advanced mobile internet via I-mode, 1seg digital terrestrial television tuners, fingerprint scanners, NFC digital wallets, fancy mobile games and high resolution cameras all being a thing years before the West caught on. Unfortunately, the colorful world of garakei phones was torn apart by the smartphone (specifically the iPhone) by the early 2010s as most local companies besides Sony, Kyocera, Fujitsu and Sharp closed shop due to their mobile phone philosophy still being stuck in the 2000s while Western and Chinese producers outgrew and delivered more on the same tech Japanese phones were famous for, often for much less money. Nowadays most Japanese mobile phones besides the Sony Xperia (which had to have some adaptations for the foreign market too) will look positively ''quaint'' compared to what the Chinese are pumping out - for example, Sharp's flagship Aquos series is still on a single camera (albeit a single camera with a big sensor) compared to your average Chinese phone, which has ''three''.
* [[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.
** In the same vein, Gwyneth Paltrow called out a reporter for being on his cell phone during her post-Academy Award acceptance press conference. She took the phone from him and tried to have a conversation with the person on the other end of the line, but they clearly did not believe it was Gwyneth Paltrow on the phone.
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