In the 1980s, it was pretty common. This is what cellphones looked like, back then: https://share.google/z3bBbfhT43EHcDYoc https://share.google/z3bBbfhT43EHcDY

In the 1980s, it was pretty common. This is what cellphones looked like, back then: https://share.google/z3bBbfhT43EHcDYoc https://share.google/z3bBbfhT43EHcDYoc Cellphones actually were quite small, during the 1990s. I used to go to Japan, and they got downright tiny during that time. Smartphones actually increased the size (but not to 1980s scale).