What was your very first mobile phone?

SkyBlueClouds

What was your very first mobile phone?

Did it have polyphonic ringtonzz, bluetooth, group text,flip/slide features, a video camera? Snake, tetris, backgammon? :pac:

Mine was a good old Nokia 3310. The most unshakeable, unbreakable phone with the longest battery life I've ever had. Plus snake was pretty cool.

Caliden

SkyBlueClouds wrote: »

What was your very first mobile phone?

Did it have polyphonic ringtonzz, bluetooth, group text,flip/slide features, a video camera? Snake, tetris, backgammon? :pac:

Mine was a good old Nokia 3310. The most unshakeable, unbreakable phone with the longest battery life I've ever had. Plus snake was pretty cool.

3310? fancy ****er.

Mine was the 5110, check out that beast!!

SkyBlueClouds

Caliden wrote: »

3310? fancy ****er.

Mine was the 5110, check out that beast!!

OMG. Yours had an ariel. Well jealous!

Steven81

3210 as was everyone else in my generation and we all had same ringtone as it was a choice of 1 or 2

bear1

I got a NEC for Xmas when I was 13

https://www.google.ie/search?q=NEC+phones+from+the+2000&biw=1366&bih=697&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=QFc2VKGVKuHoywPwv4CQBg&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#tbm=isch&q=NEC+mobiles+from+the+2000&facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=Tf3s-pAVfkJOUM%253A%3BTCc3zEkhRCt34M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.byemobile.com%252Fbigimages%252FNec%252FDB2000%252F1.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fgolden-phones.com%252Fnec%252Fnec-db2000.html%3B300%3B400

I absolutely hated it I remember. So I saved up and bought a 3210 which I only wanted cause of Snake

pyramuid man

Ericsson T10.

Great phone with 2 lines of text on the display. Barely had txting though.

TeddyTedson

I'm not even sure what my brick was called but I decided to splash my confirmation money straight away and spent £99 (punts was the old currency for some of you young ones) on an Esat Digiphone (barely) mobile phone. It was mainly used for prank phone calling free phone numbers... A misspent youth! I love my brrriiiick.

SkyBlueClouds

bear1 wrote: »

I got a NEC for Xmas when I was 13

https://www.google.ie/search?q=NEC+phones+from+the+2000&biw=1366&bih=697&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=QFc2VKGVKuHoywPwv4CQBg&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#tbm=isch&q=NEC+mobiles+from+the+2000&facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=Tf3s-pAVfkJOUM%253A%3BTCc3zEkhRCt34M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.byemobile.com%252Fbigimages%252FNec%252FDB2000%252F1.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fgolden-phones.com%252Fnec%252Fnec-db2000.html%3B300%3B400

I absolutely hated it I remember. So I saved up and bought a 3210 which I only wanted cause of Snake

The silver metallic finish on that phone is a nice touch.

bear1

pyramuid man wrote: »

Ericsson T10.

Great phone with 2 lines od text on the display. Barely had txting though.

My mother had that phone. I remember I ballsed it for her when I accidentally changed the language to Arabic

MarkR

Ericsson T10 also.

SkyBlueClouds

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I'm not even sure what my brick was called but I decided to splash my confirmation money straight away and spent £99 (punts was the old currency for some of you young ones) on an Esat Digiphone (barely) mobile phone. It was mainly used for prank phone calling free phone numbers... A misspent youth! I love my brrriiiick.

Esat Digifone. Those were the days. None of your 'priority moments' or 'webtexting' back in those times!

TheDoctor

Nokia 5110 for me

bear1

SkyBlueClouds wrote: »

The silver metallic finish on that phone is a nice touch.

Except mine was all black.
When you think how mobiles have changed in 14 years it's actually quite amazing.

Thargor

Remember when you used to get stickers in the box from Eircell and Esat Digifone so when you filled the phones memory up you could start sticking peoples names and numbers to the back of the case?

SkyBlueClouds

bear1 wrote: »

My mother had that phone. I remember I ballsed it for her when I accidentally changed the language to Arabic

You monster :eek:

km991148

3210 back in 99
my m8 had a 5110 - great weapon!
Also - my first colour phone was a t68 when Ericsson were all Swedish - great phone with its very own camera add on - fancee dan!

Also - I remember coming across a site (iobox maybe) that let you design a custom operator graphic - sent a non complimentary image to a m8 for the craic - turned out it wasn't possible to reset it back to vodafone or whatever - doh!

bear1

Lads do you all remember this ad?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvbujX4hXOg

Loved it when it came out. The idea of texting was so wow!

bnt

Orange Nokia 2140 (UK). Built like a tank. The antenna tip broke off after a couple of years, didn't make any difference.

SkyBlueClouds

Have a look at THESE babies!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

A Panasonic something or other in 1997. It was a brick and you couldn't text at that time. Worst thing every happened, as from that day forward you could get no peace and quiet. You were contactable in the field where beforehand only had to deal with people and issues when back at the office.

PizzamanIRL

IPhone 6. I can colour on it!

Simply Red

Nokia 5110, brick of a thing

biko

MicroTAC International 8700

A2LUE42

SkyBlueClouds wrote: »

Have a look at THESE babies!

I had the Nokia on the left :-)

Can't figure out what the first one I had was. Some Motorola that had a cradle to charge it in and was the size of a brick. Talk time on full battery was something like 90 minutes.

Thargor

SkyBlueClouds wrote: »

Have a look at THESE babies!

Whats the one second from the right in that pic? That's my first phone and I could never track it down...

indigo twist

This was mine. A right dinosaur! Motorola L7089.

surpy

snap, nokia 1610 i think is what google tells me. i was 13 or 14 id reckon
the 10 hours battery life prepared me for the smart phones of today

i feel so old

blastman

This:



Now that's a proper brick. 088 number and it made phone calls (where most of the time the person on the other end couldn't hear you). That was it. Came with a pair of braces so that your trousers would stay up while you carried it.

Honestly, you kids don't know you're born....:D

Amalgam

A Philips Savvy. Nothing quite like going around to work colleagues and playing them, proudly, without a hint of post x anything/irony, the Old McDonald Had A Farm ringtone..

bonzodog2

Siemens C10 in 1999. Still works, but I don't use it. Have the same number still.

BrianJD

Panasonic GD 450

http://www.compu-seite.de/handys/panasonic-g450-1997.jpg

theteal

Mitsubishi Trium

8-10

Phillips something or other. Brick of a phone, credit card-sized SIM card in the back. Think it was only 1 line of text so you would scroll to the right as you progressed writing a message.

Then came the Siemens C35, sexiest phone around in its day, remember the ad showing a lady's hand holding it between 2 fingers to show how small it was.

Ah here it is:

http://mobile.cdn.softpedia.com/phone-pics/Siemens-C35-1.jpg

8-10

theteal wrote: »

Mitsubishi Trium

Had one of these too, amazing phone! Had better functionality than all the mainstream nokia's. Trium was a hipsters phone. The first Nokia I owned is actually the Lumia 800! Never got the old 3210's like everyone else.

KimmyKims

theteal wrote: »

Mitsubishi Trium

Also had this phone. I remember it came with those Ready to go black one strap shoulder bags. Loved that bag ha

nc19

A motorola 088 ready to go back in '98

jacksie66

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blue note

A panasonic GD30. I remember I could store 12 text messages on it. I was delighted to get it. I suppose it was around '98.

DubDani

A Alcatel One Touch Easy in Blue. God what a piece of rubbish it was, but said that it was very sturdy.

http://handysammlung.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/alcatel-one-touch-easy-hd1.html

pajor

Siemens A55.

http://www.gsmarena.com/siemens_a55-394.php

Got it for my 12th birthday in 2003. :cool:

omb0wyn5ehpij9

My first phone was this brick....

jacksie66

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Alun

Mine was an analogue NMT (i.e. pre-GSM era) Philips phone. I was the coolest kid on the block back then (early 1990's) !!

There's one for sale here on eBay, at that price I wish I'd kept it now!!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/PHILIPS-PRW-9540-NMT-VINTAGE-BRICK-CELL-MOBILE-PHONE-RARE-RETRO-COLLECTABLE-/371153991113?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item566a8075c9

It was a stupid design as the battery was mounted on the side and only took a slight push from below to detach, so if you had it hooked to your belt (as was the thing to do in those days, to show it off!!) the battery kept falling off at the slightest excuse.

davo2001

A blue ericsson T10

DubDani

jacksie66 wrote: »

That looks like a play phone a child would get out of a lucky dip bag..

That made me smile, but they were very popular in Europe at that time. And much cheaper then Nokias.

Greenmachine

Amalgam wrote: »

A Philips Savvy. Nothing quite like going around to work colleagues and playing them, proudly, without a hint of post x anything/irony, the Old McDonald Had A Farm ringtone..

Me too got it from Bank of Ireland after opening a student account. I remember the excitement friend used to get when there was an issue with the network an calls were being charged. Back then you would check your balance after every call. Do people still do that. Have been on bill so long now, I have no idea.

Sunnyisland

Motorola 650 ?? A big heavy brick :-) got it about 1991.

Sheldons Brain

davo2001 wrote: »

A blue ericsson T10

I was really flash, I had a T18! My dad then had it for years, until the screen failed on it.

I envy this guy.

Timberrrrrrrr

1995 i got a Maxon, I still have it in a box in the Attic, The battery is bigger than my current phone

http://www.cntr.salford.ac.uk/comms/resources/artefacts/mobile_phones/ETACS/Maxon_EPC590E.JPG

nelly17

Nokia 3110 - probably still running on its first charge somewhere.

Seriously though my work phone went belly up and I needed something to replace it that day and all they had is a crappy Nokia 208, Man I love this phone 1 charge a week job done. I have my smart phone for all my personal stuff but for work all I really need is a good old Telephone and its perfect

Tar.Aldarion

3510i, used it for 10 years! Colour screen baby :cool: