The advantages of bag cellular phones.

This was very helpful in rural areas and other areas where cell towers were far apart. Analog signals travel better than digital ones and even though you had static, a call could still be made and understood with analog.

However, analog service will totally dissapear in 2008!

If you still have one of these phones, it will not work in the US any longer after 2008! These phones used frequencies that are now wanted by emergency services for their use so all of our first responders can communicate with each other.

Also these phones were not E911 compliant. You could not tell where the caller was by trying to locate the origin of the signal like you can with our modern digital phones. In a panic while calling for help, those who would be on a cell phone could be anywhere and if you were in a strange town and didn't know where you were a 911 operator could still locate you.

Bag phones like the Motorola M800 and M900 are newer style cell phones with digital CDMA service or GSM service. Most would want phones you can easily pack around in your pocket and neither of these fit into this category.

The one big advantage of the M800 and M900 is voice quality is as good as a land line.