The term 'brick phone' - relates to the earliest handset models. They were huge pieces of equipment roughly the size of a standard house-brick.
A phone thats really thick like a brick
The phone number of the Brick Branch Library is: 732-477-4513.
The nickname for the original mobile phone is called A Brick. The brick weighted 2 pounds. And offered just a half-hour of talk time for every recharging. And sold for $3,995!!
The phone number of the Old Brick is: 319-351-2626.
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The phone number of the Brick Store Museum is: 207-985-4802.
You have to wait for your cell phone maker to allow you to do it. There are other ways with what is called rooting your phone, but if done wrong you could brick your phone (make useless).
it is called a brick, because it is the same shape, size and basically the same weight as a brick, can you believe that people actually walked round with those ! hope that helped! :)
just that a brick
ok in the 1972
An Adobe Brick
For the same reason most things are called what they are. At some point someone said "this is a brick" and the name stuck.