Here at work we were just talking about the titles of old songs, and the song “Here’s a Quarter, Call Someone Who Cares” came up. The title presupposes the availability of pay phones.
Since I’m old and don’t listen to new music any more, I’m curious. Are there recent songs with cell phones in them? Songs with twittering or texting or whatever?
There’s the recent Lady Gaga with Beyonce “Telephone”, which is clearly about cell phones.
There were a ton of rap songs back in the 90’s about how them ladies see you rockin’ that cell. 
Quality Time by Dave Frishberg, recorded by John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey, in which the back-and-forth about the need for a romantic escape is continually interrupted by that damn ring tone.
Roger McGuinn had a song called “Car Phone” that came out in 1991
The Backstreet Boys’ The Call, from 2000.
you can kill me now.
Beyonce and GaGa did ‘Videophone’ too, and there’s a line in Destiny’s Child ‘Independent Women’ that goes: “only ring your celly when I’m feeling lonely, when it’s all over please get up and leave” or something like that.
The AV Club had a list of songs recently with obsolete (or “will be obsolete”) technology mentioned (e.g. beepers, answering machines, etc.):
Which also mentions texting.
Ian Anderson, “Calliandra Shade (The Cappuccino Song)”
Electric afternoon and shrill cellphones are mating…
Harmar Superstar’s song “DUI” is about dialing under the influence after a night of drinking.
Sittin’ alone in my room at home,
Girl come on pick up the phone,
Keep the spot next to ya warm,
I know I got my own ringtone.
(Not quite the same thing, but his song “Power Lunch” includes the line, “Deeper, deeper, I can feel your beeper,” which is followed by the sound of a beeper or cell phone on vibrate.)
Smell Yo Dick by Riskay references texting and camera phones.
For example: *Ain’t No Future in Your Frontin’ *by MC Breed
I put my name ‘Breed’, on everything I own
And when I get my Jeep I’m puttin’ ‘Breed’ on the chrome
Shine it up good, kickin’ through my neighborhood
Motorola phone, fat rims, and a Kenwood
1989, Beastie Boys, “High Plains Drifter,” Paul’s Boutique:
“Long distance from my girl, and I’m talking on the cellular.
She said that she was sorry, and I said, ‘Yeah, the hell you were.’”
Alicia Keys’ “Put It In A Love Song” has a reference to texting me on my cellphone.
Yourlips Yourlips has a song called “Text” - the lyrics start with “Do you want to text me, on your Blackberry?” and the whole song is about texting.
The song Paper Planes has the lyrics:
“Hit me on my burner prepaid wireless”
A burner being a prepaid cell phone that drug dealers and other criminal types tend to use because of how difficult they are to track, if not impossible.
There’s also this song called “Car Phone” by Sheeler and Sheeler (not the same song as in post #4), which is a parody of C. W. McCall’s “Convoy”:
There are heaps but the first that came to mind is Missy Elliott and Jay-Z’s (highly amazing) song Wake Up, where Missy raps “if you ain’t got a cellular phone, it’s alright”.
It’s fun to watch the cellphone in music go from being a status symbol to a common source of annoyance, like in Gaga’s Telephone.
The earliest instance I can think of is the KLF’s 3am eternal (about 1:10).
Look at that sumbitch. It’s a brick!
Crap! You got my cite by 2 months. 3AM Eternal was released in May. Paul’s Boutique was released in July.
Willie Nile has a song called “Cell Phones Ringing in the Pockets of the Dead” and it features ringing cell phones.