when cell phones were a 1980s novelty | flashback | nbc news Published 9 years ago • 251K plays • Length 3:21 Download video MP4 Download video MP3 Similar videos 22:20 a day in the 1980s 3:15 embarrassing 80's - huge mobile phones. 0:50 mobile phones, '80s style 0:24 why cell phones used to be so big 😱 4:12 history of cellphones and how drastically they've changed 1:30 business boomed in the 1980's with these retro phones - daily mail