First mobile phone

rossa morbeg

Do you remember your first mobile phone? Im young so i might still have mine somewhere it was a sagem myv-55 back in 2004/5 every teenager had that phone at the time, I think it was the first budget camara phone.

bonerm

Oh I remember my first one. Lots of fumbling around in the dark and pushing of buttons not knowing what the response might be.

Mahatma coat

1994, Old NEC Brick, Used it as a Paperweight for a while too

LambsEye

I'm currently still using my 2nd phone.

I broke my snazzy, little computery type modern phone jobby and the only other phone I have is this:

I'm absolutely LOVING it. Text and calls. That's all I need.

Cybertron85

Nokia 2100 has to be almost 10 years ago.

Calls, texts and snake to pretend you're busy

TeddyTedson

I still have it.:)

Aodan83

Some Phillips yoke. Got it for my birthday. Was absolutely shtie. Lasted about 2 years though...

karlog

My first phone and it will be my last. Yeh that's right, i don't need any fancy apps or gimmicks, this one works just fine.

callaway92

Nokia 3210, and I'm sure that's the same for many people here!

Hank Scorpio

callaway92 wrote: »

Nokia 3210, and I'm sure that's the same for many people here!

Everyone had them! They were tough out too, practically indestructible

ottostreet

Trium Astral

Made by Mitsubishi...how weird, as they are probably my favourite car manufacturer as well!

AFC_1903

A Motorola Talkabout 180 - and it still works. It rose like a Phoenix from the ashes after a toilety death! :eek:

It stored 10 messages, did not connect the names of senders to messages (thus enabling/requiring you to learn friends numbers) and came with a free diskman! Plus it came with better ringtones than my current phone!

The Real B-man

Siemens C10 12yrs ago now time flys!

http://www.gsmarena.com/siemens_c10-84.php

chillywilly

Heres my first one that I got in 1999 when I was 13! I don't think it even had text messaging! I thought I was the business:D

http://jamesoff.net/site/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/dsc_4159.jpg

upandcumming

I had this bad-ass.

Two and a half years and not a button out of line.

opinion guy

Nokia 5110. Awesome phone.

http://www.extragsm.com/images/phone/big/Nokia/5110/Nokia-5110-01.gif

Text messages were free back then too. Though nobody sent messages!!!!

Aoifey!

Nokia 3210, had a pink cover with hearts for it and all :cool:


Oh god I miss original snake!

Daegerty

Some Alcatel thingy from 1999. It was still going 10 years later but I disposed of it after the cunts Vodafone refused to give me an unlock code for it.

I only wanted it unlocked because it was my first phone but if I need to buy 130e of Vodafone credit for that to happen they can shove it up their arse.

Opinicus

callaway92 wrote: »

Nokia 3210, and I'm sure that's the same for many people here!

nuxxx wrote: »

Everyone had them! They were tough out too, practically indestructible

Must have dropped mine about a thousand times and the only reason I stopped using it was because I dropped it that thousandth time and half the screen went blank. Still took calls but you had to guess what half of most text messages said.

Aoifey!

nuxxx wrote: »

Everyone had them! They were tough out too, practically indestructible

My brother tried to test this one day by having a phone throwing competition with my friend. Turns out they're not so indestructible after all.

Hank_Jones

callaway92 wrote: »

Nokia 3210, and I'm sure that's the same for many people here!

Ahhh the good times, when having snake on your phone was a big deal.

And the crappy covers they would sell everywhere.

NUTZZ

Hank_Jones wrote: »

Ahhh the good times, when having snake on your phone was a big deal.

And the crappy covers they would sell everywhere.

Moore street had them on every stall!!....my god....those were the days

Daegerty

Aoifey! wrote: »

My brother tried to test this one day by having a phone throwing competition with my friend. Turns out they're not so indestructible after all.

The only thing indestructible on this planet is a Volkswagen TDI engine.

zero19

Mine was the almighty Nokia 3210, savage phone.

Senna

My dad worked for Telecom Eireann and had one of these for work around 1993. I remember thinking it was the coolest thing ever. Weighted a ton.

http://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/htpc_carphone.jpg?w=470&h=425

I cant remember the make of my first phone, it was 1997 and i was at college in the north, couldn't wait to get rid of it and upgrade to a Nokia 1900.

Daegerty

Senna wrote: »

My dad worked for Telecom Eireann and had one of these for work around 1993. I remember thinking it was the coolest thing ever. Weighted a ton.

http://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/htpc_carphone.jpg?w=470&h=425

Great yokes altogether. How long before it drained the battery of the car?

088 number?

chillywilly

Anyone have that one friend who would always say "i'll never get a phone"

seafood dunleavy

Nokia 3510i.Having a colour screen was so high tech!

Twee.

I had a Nokia 3310 as well, with a Hello Kitty cover :cool:

NUTZZ

chillywilly wrote: »

Anyone have that one friend who would always say "i'll never get a phone"

That was me! A few weeks later and my gran bought me the 3310 so I could call home to be collected when football was finished....I felt like a traitor for all of five seconds....till I found Snake!

questionmark?

First phone was s6e motarolla yoke no texts bak then!

callaway92 wrote: »

Nokia 3210, and I'm sure that's the same for many people here!

Ad one of these at one stage d only way i could turn ht on was to strategicaly tap it off a wall!

Senna

Daegerty wrote: »

Great yokes altogether. How long before it drained the battery of the car?

088 number?

The base of it was the battery, weighted a ton, but fully portable.
Yeah 088 number, think the first eircel mobiles were 088 as well.



Does anyone remember the mobiles (actual mobile, not big brutes like i posted above) that took a whole card, not just the cut out sim card. You had to slide the credit card sized sim in through the base of the phone.

cusackd

3210 Back in the day where you could change the outgoing message centre number and youd get free texts, none of that messing now.

Kxiii

First phone I had was a Motorola d160 could always stick four double A batteries in it if it went flat.

Made a good few quid replacing 3210/3310 screens used to be able go get them for a tenner a pop and charge 30 for them fitted.

Daegerty

Senna wrote: »

The base of it was the battery, weighted a ton, but fully portable.
Yeah 088 number, think the first eircel mobiles were 088 as well.



Does anyone remember the mobiles (actual mobile, not big brutes like i posted above) that took a whole card, not just the cut out sim card. You had to slide the credit card sized sim in through the base of the phone.

Indeed I do. My uncle had one in 95. This one I think, the charger I still have for it looks very familiar. http://www.vintagemobilephones.com/MyImages/Bosch%20Cartel%20SL%202G2%20%286%29.JPG

JupiterKid

My first mobile phone was a Nokia 3210 in 1999. I thought it was the bees knees back then!:D

The world's first mobile telephone was invented in 1973 - even older than me - wow!.:pac: This is what it looked like:

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/qf/c/PopularScience/7-1973/lrg_cover.jpg

Dr Kildare

i got my first mobile in 1999 when i was 14....it was the current in phone at time

have to to say, i love having the phones with instant email...its very handy

upandcumming

Daegerty wrote: »

The only thing indestructible on this planet is a Volkswagen TDI engine.

Lets not get ahead of ourselves...

opinion guy

JupiterKid wrote: »

My first mobile phone was a Nokia 3210 in 1999. It thought it was the bees knees back then!:D

The world's first mobile telephone was invented in 1973 - even older than me - wow!.:pac: This is what it looked like:

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/qf/c/PopularScience/7-1973/lrg_cover.jpg

Lol.......take-along phones. I think I'm going to start using that

Hank Scorpio

cusackd wrote: »

3210 Back in the day where you could change the outgoing message centre number and youd get free texts, none of that messing now.

That was great, until they found out and started taking all my credit everytime I topped up :mad:

Abi

I cant remember the year exactly but it was Eircell 088 and a Motorola brick >.<

I'll hazard a guess at 1998/99.

callaway92 wrote: »

Nokia 3210, and I'm sure that's the same for many people here!

Had one of them.



I don't have a flash phone now, I call from it, but only text from it if Im away from my lappy. Spending a heap on a phone wouldnt make sense for my needs.

opinion guy

Abi wrote: »

I cant remember the year exactly but it was Eircell 088 and a Motorola brick >.<

Oh **** I forgot I had one of the before my 5110.
With a flimsy retractable aerial ?
The 5110 was so modern cause it had a stubby aerial

WindSock

A savvy or something you got free with an AIB bank account in 99. Been getting statements of 0 in it ever since. I really should close that account.

Chaotic_Forces

Nokia 3310 was my first. To hell with you oldies and your "3210s". Mine was best.

seanybiker

Father had a Philips fizz I think it was called. The sim card was a full call card. Can picture my first phone but can't think of the name of it. Was about 1000 - 12 years ago and was top of the range. Back when you could change the message centre number and get free texts for about a day lol. The phone took some slaps.

kingtut

Someone please think about the children! :eek:

mikemac

1999, the Nokia 5110 was the big model at the time

But I couldn't afford that and got some Motorola.
When you received a text it just showed the number and you couldn't get it to show the name.
So you needed to recognize your friends phone numbers.

Calls cost 80p a minute peak :eek:

Ruu_Old

Some blue Motorola brick jobbie, on Eircell RTG. :cool:

QuinnC88

Ah, the Motorola StarTAC, taught i was the business with a flip-phone!

Run_to_da_hills

Mahatma coat wrote: »

1994, Old NEC Brick, Used it as a Paperweight for a while too

By any chance was it the P100?

My first phone also and cost me over £300 with a years contract with Eircell at £27 a month and thats without even making a call.:eek:

http://www.mobiles.co.uk/necp100.htm

feelingstressed wrote: »

1999, the Nokia 5110 was the big model at the time

I went through about four of these over a space of three years and still keep one as a back up although they are a pig to use for text messages. .

seanybiker

I was so proud the day I cleared snake on me old Nokia. Didn't want anyone to ring me incase it took it off the screen whilst i ran around showing everyone the full screen