First mobile phone

pa990

Siemens C25

Conbhar

An light blue Alcatel 303 one touch from about 98/99 :pac:

Rothko

A Nokia 3210 back in 2001

An 088 Eircell Ready to Go Motorolla in 1998

The size of the thing and the HUGE ariel!

Corruptedmorals

http://www.byemobile.com/bigimages/Panasonic/GD35/1.jpg

This one. It had WAP! But that picture is a lie, it had a yellowy green screen like all phones then. The coolest thing to do was to have the aerial coming out of your buttonhole in your denim jacket (ALL the rage in 2001) pocket...cringe..

daveyboy_1ie

Nokia 5110, and I thought it was the business.

Best phone for snakes by a mile

yeppydeppy

Jarren wrote: »

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a148/gammagoblin/10479669593.jpg

Motorola with an extendable aerial on it.

Anyone remembers Eircell?:p

I had one of these also, on the 088 network - if the battery ran out you could use 4 AA batteries instead.

44leto

I can't believe how quickly phones have developed. I remember I had a Nokia and 1 of its selling points was i could change the cover and that was probably less then 10 years ago.

Now my Galaxy is unbelievable in what it can do and how useful it is. Its almost a Star trek tricorder. I seen some of the prototype phones utilising a new material Graphene on tele and we "aint seen nothing yet".

PS I love my Samsung galaxy one of my better phone choices.

Jammy Donut

Got a 3310 when I was about 6/7

I remember the first person that had a camera phone in school was a 3200 (I think) when we all had 3310s.

Got a 3220 for my 10th birthday.


Best phone EVER is a 6310i hands down, My Dad still uses his one and iv one as a back-up So simple to work on, and iv a box of spares

ResearchWill

Mine wwas 1989 a Mitubishi MT 3 here but in the attached link called a MT 599 http://vintage-mobile.livejournal.com/29482.html

O the fun I had was working for one of the few business at the time selling them so had one, was a youngfella at the time so used get the bus to work, the joys of having a phone ring in 1989 on the Number 2 bus in Cork. Also remember I was shown how to set up the phone had to go get the phone in to a programing mode to enter mobile number details as in the number alloted to the phone this was pre sims, there was a scanning function in there the fun I am informed, of being able to listen into any other call on the cell you happened to be in, there was some dirty feckers around back then I am told.

Thomas828

A Sagem MW3020, a snip at £40 in 2002, the cheapest mobile phone I could find. Nothing special about it, just calls and SMS and a green monochrome screen.

rusty_racer94

Nokia 6610i.

Pottler

I got the first mobile that came out- about 1990-was using in-van radios before that(CBs) and just thought the mobile was the bomb. Downside was the first ones were hard-wired into the vehicle, had a house phone reciever complete with curly cord, were the size of a briefcase and rang by beeping the vans horn. Then Motorola brought out the brick with the rubber aerial, whoa, waay cool. You could also use it in a fight to club your opponent sensless, a feature that I no longer require from my phone.
My latest is the new Samsung tough phone and I love it. For all non-techno people(ie auld men like me) its the best phone ever.

Mine was a Panasonic GD50 in 2001 on Digifone. I didn't even want a phone at the time but it was given to me.

stoneill

3310 - still have it and still use it.

whatdoicare

Mine was the Motorola m3288 way back in 1999 - what a fliipin stupid brick of a phone! Still works though. It tore a hole in every coat and pair of jeans I owned at the time with that stupid aerial!

Darius.Tr

Nokia 3310

ilovesmybrick

Panasonic GD50-bought it for about £20 from my neighbour. As far as I can remember it could hold 12 texts! Oh how my eyes were opened to technology when I upgraded to the GD52, it could record 15 seconds of audio for a ringtone!

neil_hosey

i had this thing.. i thought i was the cats pyjamas

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a148/gammagoblin/10479669593.jpg

codrulz

callaway92 wrote: »

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

when I was 4! :eek::cool:

iguy

Mine was a Nokia 1100, it was a great phone!
I have it seven years and it still works, its my back-up phone for when my 'modern one's' break down.
It goes to show that the best phones were the old ones, especially nokias.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_1100

Rabies

neil_hosey wrote: »

i had this thing.. i thought i was the cats pyjamas

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a148/gammagoblin/10479669593.jpg

I had the same one.
Had it in 1998 I think.

Then moved to Nokia after that

saa

I was given a motarolla phone from a friend who didn't use it as no one else had a phone who was given it by her Dad as he didn't use it either.

I literally had no one to call but I was a bad ass with my 3x AAA battery phone ariel and all, no texting, no games but when they came in on the 3310 - mind blown!

Jimoslimos

Jarren wrote: »

Anyone remembers Eircell?:p

Yeah, owned by eircom. Sold out to Vodafone

Now eircom trying to push emobile. Think they might have missed the boat there.

My first was a green Ericsson GF768 (pre-Sony days), single-line LCD display and flip-down cover:cool: I miss it!
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kHh0SOSpETQ/SNoB2id1rGI/AAAAAAAABqA/eFYURshRv6A/s320/Ericsson+GF768.jpg

fasttalkerchat

Nokia 3210... I wish. It was a ****ty vodafone-sagem brick.

foggy_lad

My first phone was a Panasonic GD450 digifone, built by Bord Na Mona at Lullymore briquette factory:D

K-9

Jarren wrote: »

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a148/gammagoblin/10479669593.jpg

Motorola with an extendable aerial on it.

Anyone remembers Eircell?:p

Yep and a great phone it was.

My brother had a brand new spanking Motorola in 1991.

Dempsey

First phone was a silver Panasonic GD450. Good phone in its day! :pac:

Cee-Jay-Cee

The Great Chinholio wrote: »

Think you have the model numbers wrong. GD30 was my 1st phone but it wasnt announced until 99/available 2000

Maybe, i just googled panasonic GD and it looked like the one i had but maybe not. I got it as a present on 14th Feb 1997 as a valentines present.

Kerrydude1981

Mine was a motorola something like this 1 below.

niamhx

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

Mine was a motorola something like this 1 below.

Did that come in a big plastic box ? That's the only thing I remember about mine.

http://mobile.softpedia.com/phones/Motorola/Motorola-T2288.shtml
My first phone was a motorola T2288
I think it might have been called something else here, like a T888 1 or something.

It took 3 AAA rechargable batteries
It had a screwed arial, and if you took it off the phone was useless.
Id didnt have the capability to display names when you got messages, only the number
It had no games
When you put in a new number, you had to assign a slot number between 1 and 99. If you used the same slot numer you replaced the existing slot number.
Couldnt get new ringtones or change operator logo.

Apart from the batteries it was a piece of sh1t.

yoyo

A Nokia 3100, wasn't a bad phone either, never any problems with it. Had a newer Nokia more recently, not sure of model # and can't find on GSMArena which was a pos. Crashed regularly especially when text messages wern't deleted, remember the phone thinking I had 3, 000 text messages (certainly not that popular ;P ) and taking 30 minutes to delete them all.

Nick

mongdesade

Sony CM-H333 or ‘Mars Bar’ phone circa 1993

Rocky_Dennis

http://www.google.ie/imgres?q=philips+dual+savvy&hl=en&sa=X&biw=1280&bih=709&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=e_SEFEeWwPh5jM:&imgrefurl=http://www.gsmagazine.com/savvydb.htm&docid=0lutTC8_1YuEoM&imgurl=http://www.gsmagazine.com/savvy.jpg&w=226&h=394&ei=zRyYT8vSE4-BhQeQk6SGBg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=671&vpy=115&dur=3603&hovh=297&hovw=170&tx=89&ty=173&sig=115556435804789787494&page=1&tbnh=168&tbnw=85&start=0&ndsp=16&ved=1t:429,r:3,s:0,i:70
You had to read the messages horizontally on the screen by pushing the right arrow, shocking phone.

Ush1

AFC_1903 wrote: »

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!

Think that was the one I got but it was a darker blue colour. Was 50 quid at the time in the local shops and I was 15 years old back in 2000. I persuaded my ma I needed it for work......I was a lounge boy at the time.

I then got a Nokia 3210 eventually, even got the faux slide down plastic cover yoke to try to rip off the phone from The Matrix. Some piece of sh*te it was.

Professey Chin

niamhx wrote: »

Did that come in a big plastic box ? That's the only thing I remember about mine.

You could be thinking of the old Ready to Go packaging
Big clear plastic with a purple backing

chocksaway

Mine was a 3310. Got it in 2nd year in school. The deal was that I had to get over 70% in all my exams in 1st year or I would get one. Never worked so hard in all my life . Had it for 3 years and got a sony ericsson T630 after that.

Sync

http://galeri.uludagsozluk.com/7/panasonic-gd30_1926.jpg

Only had it a few months, then upgraded to the 3310