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Its dead in work...last call we all had was about 20mins ago! So we started the whole. what was your 1st Mobile phone... god theres been some bricks!
heres mine
http://www.welcome2net.com/mobile/data/media/43/Sagem_MC_3000-l.jpg
looks like a toy :P lol
Good ol' C520
http://www.totalcomms.f9.co.uk/phones/c520/motorola_C520_lge.gif
not so bad of a brick tbh ide still use it haha! touch phones are annoying
Good ol' C520
http://www.totalcomms.f9.co.uk/phones/c520/motorola_C520_lge.gif
Same! Then went onto Nokia 8210's lol
beast of a fone nokia 402 lol had a flashing aerial to lol
http://www.nokiamagic.co.uk/images/phones/nokia_5100.jpg
^awesome, 702's were better mind, infared 2 player snake FTW!
scott.parker
30-09-11, 05:03 PM
beast of a fone nokia 402 lol had a flashing aerial to lol
http://www.nokiamagic.co.uk/images/phones/nokia_5100.jpg
This was my first one also, lol Ive still got all of mine! i must have 10 pones+ some ware then..
Novasport
30-09-11, 05:46 PM
^awesome, 702's were better mind, infared 2 player snake FTW!
My first phone was a Nokia 702, infrared was a great gimmick, a forerunner to Bluetooth.
It was indestructable aswell, I dropped a jar full of thinners on it which started to melt it and in a panic I decided that dunking it in the bucket of water I had beed using for wet & dry would be a good idea. It still worked although you could not see a great deal on the screen that had melted. It was up for renewal so I replaced it and gave it to a mate that needed a phone and it kept going for another 18 months before he replaced it lol
Philips Savvy lol followed by my unbreakable 3310 :d
mine was a nokia ringo when i was 15 lol just as payg was coming out , cost me £100 lol
http://patrikhermansson.se/files/DSC00712.JPG
well before text messages haha
2nd was a beast
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Ericsson.jpg
lol i want one for a laugh
I had a nk402 as my first phone, i guess most up us were on orange as the 402 and 702 were orange's 'names' for the 5110 and the 6110, then i had a 3210 followed by an awesome 7110, i had one of those on contract with 'bt cellnet' :d
Wows i had one of those panasonic's on 'one2one' lol
lol who do you want a "one2one" with haha
Damnit, im gonna go find the old adverts on youchoob now lol
Mine was a Philips something, had a aerial which i swapped for a cool as fook flashing one.
Also had 2 of the sony ericcssons in Riggys pic
Them were the days lol, and they never crashed and wipe everything off the phone :roll: lol
I had a Nokia 5110:
http://en.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/78/Nokia_5110.jpg
Southie
30-09-11, 07:20 PM
This walky talky style effort.
http://www.mobiles.co.uk/images/siem_s8.gif
Then the small 8210
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Nokia8210.jpg/220px-Nokia8210.jpg
Southie
30-09-11, 07:27 PM
Also had one of these.
http://www.e-zones.net/images/13/img01336.jpg
brainsnova
30-09-11, 07:32 PM
I'm still searching for mine lol i got it when I was 15 when mobiles were just getting started on pay as you go.
my first personal phone:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3302/3614506518_6edaab397b.jpg
my first work one
http://img.cellular-news.com/cellphones/thumbnails/Motorola_8800.jpg (http://www.cellular-news.com/phones/images/Motorola_8800.jpg.php)
http://www.mobile88.co.id/gen/prodspics/philipsc12s_front.gif
I had this beast followed by
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/MotorolaStarTAC.jpg/250px-
Phillips savvy ooh i had one of those and i always wanted a startac as they were just epic cool lol
Novasport
30-09-11, 08:20 PM
My Nokia history...
Nokia 702
http://www.gamal.co.uk/nk702.jpg
Nokia 3210
http://forum.vodafone.co.uk/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/71i9D1226B00DFE00F1/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&px=-1
Nokia 6310i
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41WE8TZ29ZL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
Nokia 6600
http://www.nokia.co.uk/EUROPE_NOKIA_COM_3/Find_and_Compare/6600/6600_main.jpg
Nokia 6630
http://www.mobile-phones-uk.org.uk/images/nokia6630.gif
Nokia N80
http://st2.gsmarena.com/vv/bigpic/nokia-n80.gif
Then they started getting crap so jumped ship. Then had...
HTC Vario II
HTC Compact
Blackberry Bold
Blackberry Torch
Might have missed a few.
Crazily I still have all of my phones apart from the 702 & 6310i.
The 6310i was the best of the old school phones IMO
Jeff16v
30-09-11, 08:27 PM
This Beauty, Motorola something
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee77/gsijeff/6ceb57f5.jpg
then ericsson like southie, then dinky nokia 8210
NEC G9 lol
On cellnet !! The mobile numbers back then didn't start 07 mine was 0403
Around 1995/6
Fcuk I'm old lol
http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy181/Bazil_2468/random3/4d92dedc.jpg
6310i keeps coming up time and time and time again as being the best 'old school' phone :) I tried to find a BINB one to use recently but alas they are all refurbs and all about £50+ :( then again that would have been super cheap mobile phoning with a sim only deal lol. Battery used to last for 14 days of hard use, oh those were the days.
My first phone was some dodgy analogue handset with NO display, just 5 LED's to let you know what it was doing lol. Then had some wreck of a phone and then began the Nokia fun of a 3210, 6310, then some colour 3xxx series thing with the square pad. Then a 9310i, a K500i (terrible POS!!!) and onto smart phones with a Samsung i600 and HTC diamond (pile o gash which has destroyed HTC handsets for ever for me) and finally a BB which is just happy days like the old nokias (but lame battery life lol)
scott.parker
30-09-11, 09:05 PM
Just been out with Carrie for a meal and i was thinking about this thread as we were talking about it, and does anyone els remember how cool you were if you changed your "orange/vodafone" screen saver name to a custom one for about 25p! or like on my 3210 you had to type your own ring tones in like so..#
2-2-2-4 . 4-4-5-3- . 4-5-4-6-3 2-2-2 2-3-2-3- lol kids these day really would be like WTF lol lol
See i can see my first one, but i have no clue who made it. Had a aerial like the top of a highlighter pen..lol
Proper one was the Nokia 3210, that phone was the best ever.
Just been out with Carrie for a meal and i was thinking about this thread as we were talking about it, and does anyone els remember how cool you were if you changed your "orange/vodafone" screen saver name to a custom one for about 25p! or like on my 3210 you had to type your own ring tones in like so..#
2-2-2-4 . 4-4-5-3- . 4-5-4-6-3 2-2-2 2-3-2-3- lol kids these day really would be like WTF lol lol
OR the uber cool got some software to make the logos yourself and flash them in with the cable.... Mine was blank lol
and number ring tones were ace :) none of this MP3 carp
Jeff16v
30-09-11, 09:20 PM
See i can see my first one, but i have no clue who made it. Had a aerial like the top of a highlighter pen..lol
Proper one was the Nokia 3210, that phone was the best ever.
One of these three
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee77/gsijeff/375102c2.jpg
my first phone motorola talkabout t2288, i still have it some where but not sure how old it is
http://st2.gsmarena.com/vv/pics/motorola/mot2288_01.jpg
scott.parker
30-09-11, 09:34 PM
OR the uber cool got some software to make the logos yourself and flash them in with the cable.... Mine was blank lol
and number ring tones were ace :) none of this MP3 carp
Yeah it was cool making your own ring tones from the print out for the Internet, but it use to annoy my olds.. lol BBEEP BOOOP BEEEP BOOP BOOP lol do it for about 20 mins to get a 15 second ring tone! lmao..
Good ol' C520
http://www.totalcomms.f9.co.uk/phones/c520/motorola_C520_lge.gif
^ used to hurt my ear drums after using it though like it was frying them, probably was.
God damn, Motorola Startac! Not seen one of them in years!!
God damn, Motorola Startac! Not seen one of them in years!!
Quick spy on the bay shows they do upwards of fifty sheets:eek:
Southie
30-09-11, 09:44 PM
Before my first mobile though I used one of these...
http://nortonbooks.typepad.com/everydaysociology/WindowsLiveWriter/MotorolaPager.jpg
Then had to use one of these lol
http://blog.mobile9.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/old-phone.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/MotorolaStarTAC.jpg/250px-
Absolutely legendary phone. My mate had one back in about 1997, we dropped it in the sea off Newquay - fished it out, pegged it out on the washing line over night and it was fine the next day lol
This was one of my favourite quirky phones though, Bosch 509e. I remember changing the welcome message so it said "WELCOME TO ... ORANGE JACK" lol
http://www.cntr.salford.ac.uk/comms/resources/artefacts/mobile_phones/GSM/Bosch_509e.JPG
Does anyone actually own a Nokia now though? I think from the 402 through til about the N85/N95 they pretty much dominated the market but now I don't really know anyone that uses one.
Does anyone actually own a Nokia now though? I think from the 402 through til about the N85/N95 they pretty much dominated the market but now I don't really know anyone that uses one.
we all do ;) well on a pedantic/royalty note. I think 99.9% of phone sold on the planet have some nokia IP in them and license is paid to them, hence them not going bust in the smartphone revolution lol.
Then again nearly all smart phones with push email pay RIM royalties, and apple get loads from winmo sales etc too
Southie
30-09-11, 09:53 PM
No Nokia lol I've still go one of these though, and it works still, going well on Mazuma as well...
... £1.25 last time I looked lol
http://www.mobile-phones-uk.org.uk/images/sonyericssont610.gif
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Does anyone actually own a Nokia now though? I think from the 402 through til about the N85/N95 they pretty much dominated the market but now I don't really know anyone that uses one
Yes, I still have all my phone going back about 6-7 years.
andy_mk3
30-09-11, 10:30 PM
Just dug out my first phone, Mitsubishi MT-30 :D
Here it is sat next to my Blackberry 9900, how things have changed.
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a102/muckingfuppet/7a531602.jpg
Just dug out my first phone, Mitsubishi MT-30 :D
Here it is sat next to my Blackberry 9900, how things have changed.
How are you finding the battery life and signal strength/call quality in the 9900? (had any previous BB's to this? )
Just dug out my first phone, Mitsubishi MT-30 :D
Here it is sat next to my Blackberry 9900, how things have changed.
How are you finding the battery life and signal strength/call quality in the 9900? (had any previous BB's to this? )
andy_mk3
30-09-11, 10:35 PM
How are you finding the battery life and signal strength/call quality in the 9900? (had any previous BB's to this? )
I had a 9700 previous to this. I've not had a single problem with this phone. I'm a pretty heavy user, 500+ BBMs daily, FB always open, 4-5 tabs open, I use 60-70% of the battery during the day, I always charge it overnight. Never had any signal issues either.
I do believe the battery life will be improved with software updates, but it has a smaller capacity battery than the 9700, plus a tough screen and more powerful hardware, you can't have it all! The batter would last 2-3 days if I wasn't constantly on it I'm sure.
I had a 9700 previous to this. I've not had a single problem with this phone. I'm a pretty heavy user, 500+ BBMs daily, FB always open, 4-5 tabs open, I use 60-70% of the battery during the day, I always charge it overnight. Never had any signal issues either.
I do believe the battery life will be improved with software updates, but it has a smaller capacity battery than the 9700, plus a tough screen and more powerful hardware, you can't have it all! The batter would last 2-3 days if I wasn't constantly on it I'm sure.
perfect! :) Me and the Mrs have 9700's and the 9900 just looks the logical step but heard iffy reviews about it. Sounds like you are a 'power user' lol so will do us the 2-3 days we expect.
andy_mk3
30-09-11, 10:42 PM
It's such a nice upgrade from the 9700. As soon as I got it, my 9700 all of a sudden looked so very dated. The larger keyboard is lovely to use, and the touch screen makes web browsing and use of the menus so much nicer.
Here's a comparison of the two, excuse the state of the 9700 it's been sitting in a draw for a few weeks now lol
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a102/muckingfuppet/fabcb5c3.jpg
http://www.mobile88.co.id/gen/prodspics/philipsc12s_front.gif
I had this beast followed by
That was my first phone. Had it on bt cellnet. Im sure you could only fit like 80 characters in the text. Had a wicked screw on aerial that light up when you were called tho. Lol
Southie
01-10-11, 06:56 AM
One of my mates thought he was a flash sod, all he needed was the sunglasses and leather trench coat lol
From the first Matrix film the Nokia 7110 as he thought lol
http://www.extragsm.com/images/phone/big/Nokia/7110/Nokia-7110-02.jpg
I had one of these though to pee him off lol 8110
http://www.retrobrick.com/nokia81103.jpg
Just for Andy_mk3, i have all these in a bag in my desk draw for some reason.. There's a few missing tho... lol Think they are in date order.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y232/bennh2/crap/IMG_0353.jpg
scott.parker
01-10-11, 04:02 PM
See as said most of us had Nokia's all the time, they lead the way until the N95, thats the last one i had, as Samsung and others took over with huge steps in technology and reliability etc.. they must be back to making tyres by now lol lol
Peanut_119
01-10-11, 04:09 PM
i have always had nokia's, and when i got a n8 i gave my misses my old n95 and she swears by it, wont change it for a up to date one (i have offered) , n95 was the best nokia by far!
One of my mates thought he was a flash sod, all he needed was the sunglasses and leather trench coat lol
From the first Matrix film the Nokia 7110 as he thought lol
http://www.extragsm.com/images/phone/big/Nokia/7110/Nokia-7110-02.jpg
I had one of these though to pee him off lol 8110
http://www.retrobrick.com/nokia81103.jpg
8110 wasn't as cool though as it didn't spring open like the 7110. Until the spring inevitably broke lol
windfreek
01-10-11, 04:50 PM
mine had no screen, the best part was the flip down mic like Capitan Scarlett lol
http://pictures.todocoleccion.net/tc/2009/05/11/13274784.jpg
that was back in the old analogue days and when O2 didnt exist, trying to rack my brain for what they were called back then...
EDIT... BT CELLNET
lol, just found Sonys sales pitch for it
The familiar button spacing of a conventional telephone and similarly easy to hold, but in a fresh design. Introducing a unique, flip-down mic in this model enabled users to keep the earpiece comfortably close to their ear while talking. The earpiece itself has a soft, round shape designed to fit gently against one's ear. For better usability, common buttons such as keys for dialing are arranged on the front, with other buttons on the side.
My first was a 3310, followed by 2 more when I lost them, then some random samsungs, first proper phone was a Sony Ericsson W800I, then a W880i then a W995, now i've got a Nokia N8. I still miss my sony ericsson's though :( best phones ever
Does anyone actually own a Nokia now though? I think from the 402 through til about the N85/N95 they pretty much dominated the market but now I don't really know anyone that uses one.
I've got an N8 at the moment, pretty good smart phone, and a 12mp camera which is awesome :)
andy_mk3
01-10-11, 08:56 PM
I started off on one2one I think lol
That was my first phone. Had it on bt cellnet. Im sure you could only fit like 80 characters in the text. Had a wicked screw on aerial that light up when you were called tho. Lol
Same here. No light up aerial for me though! Just a choice of coloured O rings. Yellow FTW.
I remember when it said 'SMS service unavailable at present' as they hadn't launched it. Oooh what will it be?! Etc. lol
I used to spend **** loads on phones :/ The Savvy was replaced by a 5110, then an 82210 iirc (<--- best phone ev0r1) GR8 4 DROPPIN DOWN SLEEVE WHEN USIN FOR CALLS WHILST DRIVIN
mine had no screen, the best part was the flip down mic like Capitan Scarlett lol
http://pictures.todocoleccion.net/tc/2009/05/11/13274784.jpg
that was back in the old analogue days and when O2 didnt exist, trying to rack my brain for what they were called back then...
EDIT... BT CELLNET
lol, just found Sonys sales pitch for it
The familiar button spacing of a conventional telephone and similarly easy to hold, but in a fresh design. Introducing a unique, flip-down mic in this model enabled users to keep the earpiece comfortably close to their ear while talking. The earpiece itself has a soft, round shape designed to fit gently against one's ear. For better usability, common buttons such as keys for dialing are arranged on the front, with other buttons on the side.
I've still got my CMD Z1-Plus lol (the replacement). You win for lack of tech though! Mine could record memo's, active flip down mic, jog dial (win) and the mother fcuker even had an OSTRICH walk across the screen on start up/shut down.
[Mike D] Awwwww yeeeeaaahhhh! [/Mike D]
TeddyThom
02-10-11, 12:59 AM
Philips Savvy
FTMFW :d
Although my own scared the hell out of me. I was walking home from school and my mum rung me, didn't touch any buttons and said to my friend "oh sh!t it's my mum" then pressed the answer button. The first words from her mouth was "I'll give you oh sh!t it's mum!!" hahahaha
cormac81
02-10-11, 05:50 PM
Mine was a bosch 509e it really was a brick..
http://www.hct.com.hk/catalog/images/bosch_509e.gif
joff-turbo-nova
02-10-11, 06:27 PM
My first mobile back in 1994/95 was this nice compact Sony :
http://www.oldmobil.hu/mobiles_img_small/sony-cm-dx1000-1.jpg
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT33c8mu33W0O9VbWa67U0zukXUZ9P63 g8LJV_rz_mYKG7ygN1D
It even had a pull up aerial for better reception lol
Mind you back then a mobile battery would keep charge for a week before it went flat!
Joff
My mate got the cocacola sony erricson she collected all the thingies i cant think what they are called my brain is still back at home in bed. but then spent £50 i think or 70 and she got it! lmao it never worked though :/
http://www.handy-sammler.de/Images/NEC_G8.jpg
Mine was this.......
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3315/3644997318_0b1249379b.jpg
Motorola M760 with pull up ariel
Sim card slid in from the bottom (ooh er), got it in '97 when one2one had that free weekends and evening calls tariff.
my first motorola had the full size credit card sim... it was truly crap on the orange network. my brother was trying to get hold of me (i work for him) and kept leaving more irate messages.. but i never got them where i was working, so he sent his mrs round, she took my phone straight to the shop. the man stuck the sim into a display phone & turned it on....and found some messages, turned the loudspeaker on and this angry voice shouted 'michael, its me, if you don't start answering that f%£$ing phone i'm coming round there to shove it up your......' the man turned it off, and she left the shop blushing.....so we got a vodaphone instead..
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