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What was your first mobile phone like?
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Was it a brick, a teeny one or for the youngsters amongst us the beginnings of a smartphone??
Mine was a stylish Ericsson T28, steel grey, flip lid. It was a great little phone.
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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago
Bristol |
T18 here. I loved it but I wanted to be able to flip it open like a Star Trek communicator and it was just too robust. I did programme in my own monophonic ring-tone though. First thing I did. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Had a curvy BT thing that I got free with my student bank account. Remember walking back from a lecture and calling home. "Yes I'm outside and I'm talking to you. No, no wires"
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It was a massive Motorola brick, pull out aerial. It had two different sized batteries and you put it on a stand to charge it. You could only make calls, no texting. |
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By *inzi LTV/TS
over a year ago
The Garden of Eden in Beautiful North Wales |
Motorola - Flip and aerial....
Charged by the minute at summin like 75p a minute. If you spent 61 seconds calling someone, it was £1.50! 
Progressed to Nokia, Ericsson, Sony Ericsson and Samsung at present. The fones great but I do need to change network when the contract runs out. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I held off getting one for ages for some reason.
Nokia 6210
I was very cool with that bad boy. Quite the young executive, and Snake2 was the bomb."
Ooooh I liked playing Snake (thumb but I had to wait until my next phone which was a Nokia Music Express. Another great little phone which I still have in case of emergencies! |
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Small. It made phone calls and sent texts?
It was in 2005 and they *made* me have one for safety reasons for work. I was the last in my social group to get a phone.
People were calling me and asking why I hadn't picked up... Truth is I locked the damn thing in my desk for 3 months.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Small. It made phone calls and sent texts?
It was in 2005 and they *made* me have one for safety reasons for work. I was the last in my social group to get a phone.
People were calling me and asking why I hadn't picked up... Truth is I locked the damn thing in my desk for 3 months.
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Luddite!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Mine was an old bt thing that i got free with something. ...had a single line for text messages. ...amazing thing. I lost it under a train when i was pissed |
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By *ynecplCouple
over a year ago
Newcastle upon Tyne |
I was given one in work back in 1994, it was massive, this thing had the voice and receiver of what was then a desk phone and a battery pack which was the size of a brief case. Took it put in the boot of my car and never used it even then I knew it did not look good. |
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"Small. It made phone calls and sent texts?
It was in 2005 and they *made* me have one for safety reasons for work. I was the last in my social group to get a phone.
People were calling me and asking why I hadn't picked up... Truth is I locked the damn thing in my desk for 3 months.
Luddite! "
I finally cracked and asked the kids on the estate to show me how to use it. I became fluent in txt spk and, for years until the invention of predictive text, was pilloried for "Texting like a Jamaican."
Ja get me, blud?
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A flip that turned into a video camera lens on hinge an screen turned to face u
Just can't remember name I know it was Nokia
Oh an found a Motorola in Stockport once had lots of porn on it most to disgusting to say on here |
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By *mmmMaybeCouple
over a year ago
West Wales |
Slightly off track I had a Bell home cordless phone back in the early 80's. It had failed UK radio standards for a home phone so none were sold. It came with a base unit with twin 4ft aerials out the back..and the same but shorter telescoping on the phone! I got it from the guy that was thinking of importing them. Obviously he didn't bring more over.
It failed because it's range was TWO miles!! Very useful when mum & dad sent me shopping as I could use the intercom facility to make sure I hadn't forgotten anything..
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"Mine was the Nokia 5146 if I still had it, it would probably have some charge left in it still!!"
Is that the phone you could drop regularly without damage.. circa around 2004 I,ve got that one I think bought it second hand for around £15 a few years back now the most popular mobile phone and more sold than any other mobile phone in the world..  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Still got it and its effing infuriating, I swipe it when someone calls and it cuts them off. When I've managed to actually answer a call I don't know how to end it without actually switching the bloody thing off but I'm forced to keep it!!!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Small. It made phone calls and sent texts?
It was in 2005 and they *made* me have one for safety reasons for work. I was the last in my social group to get a phone.
People were calling me and asking why I hadn't picked up... Truth is I locked the damn thing in my desk for 3 months.
Luddite!
I finally cracked and asked the kids on the estate to show me how to use it. I became fluent in txt spk and, for years until the invention of predictive text, was pilloried for "Texting like a Jamaican."
Ja get me, blud?
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"Small. It made phone calls and sent texts?
It was in 2005 and they *made* me have one for safety reasons for work. I was the last in my social group to get a phone.
People were calling me and asking why I hadn't picked up... Truth is I locked the damn thing in my desk for 3 months.
Luddite!
I finally cracked and asked the kids on the estate to show me how to use it. I became fluent in txt spk and, for years until the invention of predictive text, was pilloried for "Texting like a Jamaican."
Ja get me, blud?
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Don,t worry about a ting thing haha because every little thing goner be oright.. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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One of the little Nokias, can't remember the model number. Not a brick - I'm always a late adopter - not sure if it had Snake on it or not or if that was a later model! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Nec Panasonic analogue voice only p3 with big rubber duck aerial circa 1991! Batteries lasted about six hours standby. Everyone thought I was a drug dealer. |
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"Nec Panasonic analogue voice only p3 with big rubber duck aerial circa 1991! Batteries lasted about six hours standby. Everyone thought I was a drug dealer. "
Nah, ya need at least 3 phones to be a drug dealer  |
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"That first briefcase pos cost the company I worked for £1400!! Think it was around 86/87 from memory.
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Yep, sounds about right!
Mine cost £2600 in summer of 86, that was £1600 for the phone and network connection and £1000 for the car kit (fitting was free! LoL). |
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By *ewels74Woman
over a year ago
Dundee/Angus/Blackpool |
It was like a brick from Motorola if I remember,back in the late 90s and a sticky out wire,was at college at the time,but I was not liking it after a while,have changed new phones once bought an accidental tiny one and hated it so managed to take it back and get another one....always used the same phone number,not had a new phone in like ever.
Mainly keep it off or let it run down way often |
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It was many years ago, quite expensive, poor mobile signal, short battery life, took a while to work it all out the different features, took photos which needed editing and was soon replaced with a better model.
Those were the days, haven't times changed! |
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By *tep121Man
over a year ago
manchester |
In order of ownership
Siemens sl10
Ericsson brick (unsure what model. Did have interchangeable skin around the number pad)
Nokia 3310, 3210, 8520,
Sony erricsson t10
Motorola flip
Siemens s2350? (small blue n white one)
Sony w810, w820
IPhone
HTC wildfire (still going 8 years later
Galaxy S4
Sony Experia M4
Think that's all I've had since 98 |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Erm... Bosch brick, the one with the see-through orange front which lit up in 2001. It didn't even have an alarm clock "
That's the one I had, the 509e |
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It was like a fackin ouse brik. Then they got smaller and smaller and then grew bigger and bigger. I've been through the complete evolution of samsung, right from when it had long hair and pushed down pillars in temples. |
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By *odareyouMan
over a year ago
not far from iceland,,,,,, tescos is nearer though :-) (near leeds) |
The size of a breeze block...my old boss always had the latest technology .. he got two.. Biggest problem wasn't the size though nobody else had them so my old boss was constantly ringing me on it made my job ten times harder..  . |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It was a Nokia and it was blue. It wasn't huge, but it was sturdy enough to withstand being left on the ground during the annual Wilderbeast migration, being dropped into the Grand Canyon and being sat on by Father Christmas after one too many mince pies. It also had that snake game on it. |
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By *ikeC81Man
over a year ago
harrow |
Mine was about 1998 but I managed to break it then I got a Sony Ericsson flip phone
And then I worked my way up to a Nokia 3110, 3210 and then a 3310
I had a Motorola razor at one point
I moved to iPhone back in 2011 with 4s - now I am on 6s |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"It was a Nokia and it was blue. It wasn't huge, but it was sturdy enough to withstand being left on the ground during the annual Wilderbeast migration, being dropped into the Grand Canyon and being sat on by Father Christmas after one too many mince pies. It also had that snake game on it. "
Not sure today's smartphones would survive all that! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Motorola transportable..
Huge battery, curly wire from the handset to the battery. It even had a car kit, you removed part and screwed back into the car.
I can not for the life of me remember the model number. |
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mine was a sagem myx2 in 2004 it was the little buttons with the numbers and letters on they just wore out tried to get another case locally cound only find a myx3 would not fit possibly could of got one off line but had no Internet then so annoying. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I was living in Mallorca when I got my first mobile phone in 1998..all I remember was it was an alcatel and it was bright blue and black, and it was waterproof ...
the first mobile I had in the UK was a nokia 3310 |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It was a Nokia car phone on Cellnet - a bloody great box screwed inside my car boot, a cable as think as your arm running from the boot to the dash then a handset with a display and full keypad held in a smashing holder to the side of the footwall. A ,lovely bit of kit but I could hardly afford to make a call. After a while a got bit savvy and bought a Nokia Cityman and had the ESN cloned so I could use it as a 'mobile' whilst the car phone was off air. It worked too - result ! a car phone and a mobile on the same account hahaha |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Mine (mrsb) was a motorola something or other. It had a pull out ariel and I thought I was the bee's knees.
Thst was around 20 yrs ago, so no need to explain how much of a brick it was lol x |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
Newcastle and Gateshead |
"Motorola star-tac..... it was one of those little flip things that you saw on Star Trek.... mega cool!
The one with the battery on the flip bit?"
thats the fella!!!!!
funny thing is i was working for carphone warehouse at the time.... I think i was the last employee to finally give in and get one! I didn't ever want one.....
I only ended up getting a pager as a compromise if they needed to get in touch with me!!! |
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