What year did you get your first mobile phone?

corcaigh1

1998 - Motorola D160 on Eircell 088

The Cush

corcaigh1 wrote: »

1998 - Motorola D160

Looks like my first mobile, 1998, free from the AA when I joined/ renewed my annual membership. Got about 8 hours from the battery IIRC.

GBX

1998 - Nokia 5110

OldMrBrennan83

1998 - Ericsson GA628.

fxotoole

1999 some Ericsson piece of sh** from Speakeasy if I remember correctly

LeakingLava

2004 - Nokia 3650

cuculainn

LeakingLava wrote: »

2004 - Nokia 3650

Thats a class looking phone for 2004.......

LeakingLava

cuculainn wrote: »

Thats a class looking phone for 2004.......

Must say, I did get a lot of attention in class at the time. Other kids wanting to play games that no other phone had.

q85dw7osi4lebg

2000, Nokia 5110. I was 11!

editorsean

1999 - Philips Savvy on Eircell "Ready To Go" - I used it very sparingly as calls were 80p/minute peak, 20p/minute offpeak.

While the phone supported SMS, it was not until 2000 (I think) that Eircell provided SMS capability, which was initially free and then 10p per SMS.

testarossa40

1996 - Siemens S3 Comm... Gawd I thought I was the dog's back then

alexmalalex

1999 - Motorola...

Boradriver

1999 - Motorola M3888. Still have it & tested it last year. Still works perfect!

igCorcaigh

1999.
Nokia.

They went mainstream that year when the price dropped below £100

Doctors room ghost

corcaigh1 wrote: »

1998 - Motorola D160

I had that one.she was 088 number.wasnt worth a hat of sh1te for anything

igCorcaigh

I do remember some people having mobiles around 94/95 but it was a bit flash.

Sardonicat

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

corcaigh1 wrote: »

1998 - Motorola D160

I had that one.she was 088 number.wasnt worth a hat of sh1te for anything

Same here. Got nicked in the end if you can believe that! Fecking indestructible. I dropped halfway down an Alp ( ok, the foothills, but still) Not a mark and worked just fine.

antodeco

Think I got mine about 95/96. Ericsson GA628. Replaceable key pad covers! I worked within the mobile industry from 2000 until 2018, so have been very lucky to have had nearly every cool phone out there!

angel eyes 2012

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

I had that one.she was 088 number.wasnt worth a hat of sh1te for anything

Me too in 1998. It was also 088. You could only save 10 numbers on it and I don't think it was possible to send texts. My friend and I got one and just called each other because nobody else in our circle had one. We were 17 or 18. By 2000 everyone our age had one.

beertons

98. Nokia 5510 I think. Upgraded a year later to an 8210. Still have the same number.

Doctors room ghost

angel eyes 2012 wrote: »

Me too in 1998. It was also 088. You could only save 10 numbers on it and I don't think it was possible to send texts. My friend and I got one and just called each other because nobody else in our circle had one. We were 17 or 18. By 2000 everyone our age had one.

The fcukers ate through credit too.mine was on ready to go and they were the cardboard scratch cards with the number for the credit having to be scratched off to see it.

igCorcaigh

I programmed for WAP back around 99 too.
Bit ahead of the curve it was. But ultimately failed.

Heres Johnny

Siemens c35 in the year 2000 as far as I remember.

beauf

I think this was my first one...

http://www.mobilecollectors.net/phone/1542/panasonic-eb-g500...

madmaggie

I think it was 1998, a Panasonic brick, with the Speakeasy plan on Esat Digifone. I still have the same number.

KevRossi

1993. This phone in this colour scheme. Ericsson 172 and also from D2 Mannesmann which was later taken over by Vodafone. It was the default phone for a lot of people in Germany at the time. Also had a Siemens C3 car phone. Contract at the time stipulated that I had to be reachable 24/7. Everybody thought it was cool, I detested it.

Plumbthedepths

1998 Motorola D160 with a pull up aerial. Eircell.

AndrewJRenko

1996 new job, new phone

Nokia 5110

antodeco

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

1996 new job, new phone

Nokia 5110

Think the 5110 was released in 1998!

Riesen_Meal

corcaigh1 wrote: »

1998 - Motorola D160

My first one also, I remember mine was 088 on Eircell also, I think it took 4 X AA batteries also if your charged ones ran out...

Then I got a Phillips Diga phone after that which was my first GSM phone...

Then a Siemens C25 after that....

I never really kept any of them unfortunately, be funny to see some of them now!

donspeekinglesh

A Motorola in 2000. Not sure which model, maybe the T180. It could take AA batteries if you were stuck, but was otherwise a terrible, terrible phone.

Before that I shared an Ericsson GS18 with my dad.