Like others here, I have memories of people having cell phones in the late 80's. In fact, we used to play adult softball in the summer (ETA: I was not an adult, but a teen at the time. I just played b/c they always needed girls and my parents played), and it got really annoying with all of the business/sales guys having their cell phones hooked up to their horn so they could hear their business calls during the games. Some truck would go off honking and someone would come in running off the field to answer their phone. 
Back then I think they had to be almost constantly charged so the guys had to keep them in their trucks. Or maybe it was sat phones? I'm not sure - but it's not like cell phones were 'inconceivable'. Heck, our school even had the internet 20 years ago. 
Just another instance of history being re-written.
Funny how a cell phone is a god-given right, but birth control is the devil. How do they know the difference when a new innovative product comes on the market? Who does God tell?
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