What year did you get your first mobile phone?

lab man

AndrewJRenko wrote:

1996 new job, new phone

AndrewJRenko wrote:

Nokia 5110

My mam still has one from then working perfectly

ofthelord

I got my first phone when starting college in 2000 - got it free for opening a student account with AIB. Can't remember which phone it was, but do remember it was expensive to keep topped up with credit at a time i was pretty poor - the novelty factor of texting wore off quick enough, think it was 10 or 20p per text...

Strumms

It was a ready to go Ericsson GF738. The year was 1999. I was working for a call center in Eastpoint and they got a big contract with then Eircell to call and remind people who had not payed their bills. Not fun work but early on during training a lad from Eircell turned up with a huge box full of phones for us free, with credit too. Thought we were the dogs....

Jeff2

I got my first mobile phone in 1999 and still have the the number in phone posting now.

20 years.

AndrewJRenko

antodeco wrote: »

Think the 5110 was released in 1998!

You could be right. It was the 2110, with the pull-out antenna and the 9600 baud PCMCIA modern to plug into the laptop.

gammygils

Siemens c25 in 1999. it could fit between your thumb and long finger :pac:

SlowBlowin

Mine was in 1988, it was a NEC 9A.

Got it from carphone warehouse for £999.00 (In the UK).

It was too big for any pocket, even a coat pocket.

Grab All Association

1997 Motorola something on Eircell TACS 088
Later got the Nokia 6110

Vowel Movement

2004 Nokia 3510i. I couldnt wait to open it on Christmas morning.

Noo

Nokia 3210 in 2000. I was the snake master!

Cherry Blossom

1999 I had a Nokia 5110 like so many others. I was last in my group of friends to get one.

tedpan

Mine was an Ericsson T10 in 99.

My dad had a mobile since 86, it was a Motorola on cellnet, a few calls and the battery was dead lol. Very impressive all the same.

endacl

Mitsubishi MT30. Came with a free portable telly in (iirc) 1995.

corcaigh1

antodeco wrote: »

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!

I had that ericsson phone also in blue, around 2000 jeez I didn't realise it was introduced in 1996. Class phone for its time!

punisher5112

1999 I got 2 3310 and a 5110.

Eircel ready to go....

corcaigh1

beertons wrote: »

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

Same number lol...fair play! Obviously an 087 number!

The Pheasant2

Vowel Movement wrote: »

2004 Nokia 3510i. I couldnt wait to open it on Christmas morning.

My first phone too, also 2004 - it was the first mobile phone with a colour display! :eek:

corcaigh1

Fieldog wrote: »

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!

Yeah im actually gonna buy up a few vintage phones I've had previously for the craic on ebay, most of them are going fairly cheap with a box and charger!

Gonad

Mine was around 1999-2000 Nokia 3100 or something like that . Also I think my first number was 087 . What network would that have been ?

RocketRaccoon

2000 - Siemens c25. I find it funny that we were striving for smaller phones for years and then went the opposite direction. I had the Siemens sl55 in about 2002/3 and now have a Xiaomi Mi Max 2, they couldn't possibly be any different.

punisher5112

Gonad wrote: »

Mine was around 1999-2000 Nokia 3100 or something like that . Also I think my first number was 087 . What network would that have been ?

Eircel

Joe_ Public

Remember seeing an advert in one of the evening papers for mobile phones for 4.99 in a petrol station on Shelbourne Road around mid 90s so went and got one.

I think it was Maxon phone (or was that name of the garage?) Anyway thing was huge, weighed a ton and antenna wasn’t far off a foot long. Still a mobile phone though!

Gonad

punisher5112 wrote: »

Eircel

That it twas .

punisher5112

The eircel aeroplane is still at Dublin airport where they use it for training.

It's only very recently if I recall right that the painted over the ad.

alan partridge aha

https://www.google.com/search?q=nokia+mobile+phones+1996+ireland&client=ms-android-samsung&prmd=isnv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjBtf7_gcHgAhUiSxUIHfZdDCcQ_AUoAXoECAwQAQ&biw=360&bih=612#imgrc=JEEugnYNLY1QQM

1996 brilliant phone

Stone Gossard

In 1994 mitsubishi mt8 on the old eircell 088 analogue network.
I used to sell phones and had another previous to that for a year or 2... but can't remember what it was ...I think it was a Motorola microtac... memories!

lbc2019

1997 - Motorola D160
088 2092450 (Not my current 7 digit number)

DopeTech

Around 2003-2004. Think it was the Nokia 3510i

LollipopJimmy

2000 - Nokia 5110, bulletproof, 16 year old Jimmy dropped it many times and the worst thing that happened was the battery fell off. It's still in a box in the attic and I reckon it'd still work

Grandeeod

1995. A Maxon.