But can the iPhone anchor your speedboat?

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Remember when your cell phone could barely fit in your pocket? Remember when it could barely fit in your car? Remember when only rich, speedboat-driving WASPs even owned the damn things? Relive the glory of 1989 with this Centel ad, billed on YouTube as the first-ever TV spot for a cell phone. And here’s your bit of irony for the day: Centel was bought by Sprint in 1992, then spat out as Embarq Communications, a local-phone-service provider.

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