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Nokia 5110 - actually a 5146, which was a carrier specific variant.
I was a late adopter, Nokia 3210.
Purchased myself? I feel like it was perhaps a ZTE Blade when they were all the rage back in 2010.
IIRC, a Sony "Mars bar", and CMH-333, or possibly CM-H333. Early 1990's, about £400. Ran on BT Cellnet, an analogue cell system.
I'd had older, and much more expensive, phones before that, but they were provided to me by company. The Mars bar was the first ones I bought. And here I am, nearly 30 years later, having just spent approx £400 on a mobile phone. Oh well. :D
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First one I purchased with my own money - Motorola Star-Tac!!
First one I ever owned was a Phillips Diga, but that was one of many that people bought for me, out of exasperation at not being able to get hold of me 24/7... seemingly unaware of how easily I can just 'forget' to take it with me when I leave the house. I still do that even now.
Palm Treo 300 https://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=175
It was bulky, and a PITA, but I loved the physical keyboard, it came with a stylus, and I could get addicted to using AIM and email anywhere. The internet was soooooo slow, GPS was terrible, everything was clunky (even for the times), and the flip up lid/screen protector was cool but had a flimsy hinge. I had to get it replaced twice, I think, because of that fail point.
I switched to a Samsung Juke afterwards, because I realized I didn't really need a smart device. (Honestly, now that I'm over my 5 years of IT on the road, I don't have a good reason to have one even now.)It made an excellent fidget toy. https://www.cnet.com/reviews/samsung-juke-review/
Nokia N95 was the first one I purchased after I retired. Prior to that I had work phones for about 10yrs the first one of those was a huge Motorola about the size of a briefcase with a huge carrying handle!
Nokia 2140 on Orange - it was bullet proof unlike today's phones :(
Nokia 5110
Philips Diga - back in the late 90s, and replaced by a Nokia 3210 in 99.
It was like going from a ZX Spectrum to an Amiga 500.
Nokia 3210 - bulletproof phone and I remember getting a Budweiser case (with beer bubbles) for it as you could replace the entire case of the phone. It was my first phone and I was actually pressured into getting it by a pushy salesman as I was looking at phones and he was obviously getting bored and asked if I was wasting his time. Dodgy salesman, amazing phone.
The families first was a Phillips Savvy BT Cellnet number that my sister got with her bank account. The thing was damned near invulnerable, it was dropped, bashed and, once, fully submerged in a bucket of water and it kept on trucking.
The first one I bought was a Sendo M550 in red around 2003-ish... it spent more time being fixed than in actual use. Once I got it back I soon ditched it for a Motorola V620 in 2004 which lasted me until 2015 when I needed a phone with a decent camera (work related).
The 3210 was great phone when it came out! robust, amazing battery life, quite good sound! I remember having an argument with my ex and chucking it at a concrete floor, it just bounced off!, a few scratches, still worked fine! lolQuote:
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Motorola MicroTAC International 7500, absolute garbage, massive, heavy, terrible sound, kept losing signal all the time.....
A classic - Nokia 6310i around 2002/3. No more pager, no more smelly pay phones.
Ericsson T28s
People phone something or other....
Motorola MicroTAC International 7500
I have no idea, I can't remember that far back. It had a sim card the size of a credit card though!
Ericsson T18 and bought the clip in keyboard for it for typing text messages :p
I had a lot of hand-me-downs over the years, then the first one I bought myself was the OnePlus One on 28th November 2014 for £274.29, absolute bargain at the time for an awesome phone. Loved it, only got rid of it late last year for another hand-me-down.
Siemens S6, I remember saying to the guy in the shop what games it had on it (all of my friends had Nokia's, so it was all about the Snake)..
He said to me, if you want to play games, buy a rubbishrubbishrubbishrubbishing GameBoy...
Philip savvy...
The first one I bought myself, rather than having handed to me when someone else upgraded, was the Sony Ericsson K800i.
Over time, I took advantage of quite a bit of the firmware and software mods that had popped up for it.
Nokia 3300 - the music phone - big selling point was being able to use mp3's as ringtones and wake up alarm.
Behold!!! My first ever phone :
https://i.imgur.com/pdCqeJd.jpg
Motorola Memphis I was maybe 21, still at uni, and had just enough money left in my first term's grant and loan to afford the cheapest PAYG one2one offered. Notable only because when I left it in a pub after a drunken night out, someone stole the sim card but left the phone ;)
The Nokia 6210.
First own phone was a used blue Siemens C10D. That got damaged in an accident and replaced with a Mitsubishi Trium Astral (MT-140) in Dec. 1999. When that got stolen I bought a used Nokia 5110 with an extended battery and got into firmware modding on those DCT-3 platform Nokias... Tons of Nokia phones followed till they turned lame, slow and laggy with the symbian crap. Jumped ship to (Sony-)Ericsson for a dozen models over time and after that my Smartphone endeavor of never finding one that has all the features I want started...
Most memorable thing about the C10D was that it was almost stupidly simple to use (which was odd because everyone said Nokia was the simplest) and even the standard battery lasted forever. Drawback was that spare parts were pretty much unobtanium, which is why it got replaced when the display got cracked in an accident and I couldn't find a replacement anywhere, not even in the form of used but dead phones.
Motorola Timeport P7389, I think.
One of the first phones I saw marketed as one you could take with you around the world because it was GSM and had most of the bands. Alas, never needed to use most of them, nor the fun travel charger kit that came with it, with adapter plugs I'd never seen before. :)
MR15 in 1994, back in the days when there was one band and it was easier than phone than the twitter limit text (no camera, no pics, no emojis)
Nokia 5110 followed by Motorola V551
A Sprint-branded candy bar phone at the beginning of 1998. I don't remember the model number, and I traded it in so I no longer have it. It was pretty basic, but I remember being pleased with the call quality.
Samsung Galaxy Note 2.
I wanted a phone with a big enough screen for my poor eyesight to be able to read and was always getting called Dom Joly by friends. These days it looks small compared just about every phone out there.
I am not 100% certain but I believe it was a Nokia 3310. I hated that phone and got rid of my service in short order. It wasn't until my second attempt at getting a cell a few years later, a Motorola V70, I got a cell phone and the service was robust enough I kept my service long term. In fact I have the same number to this day. Though the provider has changed do to buyouts...I believe it was Cingular One when I bought in...
My first was a Samsung SGH-100 which was given to me. Then I bought a Nokia 5110, and an 8210 a few years later. My mother still uses that one!
Motorola bag phone circa 1987, it weighed approximately 15 pounds held 99 phone numbers. I think the best feature of the phone was they sent a pretty blond to my house to make the sale
Sagem MW3020. my parents give it to me cos i didnt want to use any mobile. I was in a 20s then.
Mine was a Sony Ericsson GA628 which I bought on a 12 month contract with one2one (was around 96-97). It had interchangeable face plates that went round the keys for personalisation and also a band round the aerial you could swap out to keep it matching. It only had 2 lines on the display so if you got a long text through had to be scrolling down to read it.
Ericsson GA628
From memory, it was about 1985 (or maybe a little earlier) when I got a car phone - unable to remember the brand, been to sleep since then :-)
I was the only one of my friends that had a mobile phone in the car.
It was one of those with a large brick mounted in the boot, a big antennae mounted on the roof and had an old handset (like the rotary phones).
Also had a 2 way in the car and a mobile (well a suitcase sized one that weighted a ton) phone that I had to carry around when on call - cannot remember that brand either.
I was working in A&E as a specialist trauma and anaesthetic nurse - because of this I used to get called to go to major accidents if close by (we didn't have paramedics back then) or to go to the hospital - had to keep a med pack and a change of cloths in the car all the time.
For example - because I lived near the airport, I was called out to there a number of times (mostly non events - just in case something happened) and used to attend simulated plane crashes at least once a year.
Siemens S35i - nice looking phone.
https://fdn2.gsmarena.com/vv/pics/siemens/sis35_02.jpg
Mine was Nokia with an extending aerial followed by an Ericsson which in those days was the bees knees.
I’ve tried searching for the Nokia but never managed to find a picture of it but it was bigger than pocket size.
Panasonic G450
https://cloud10.todocoleccion.online...4289E2A42E.jpg
Panasonic gd52 - https://www.imei.info/phonedatabase/332-panasonic-gd52/
With phone in jeans front pocket, the aerial stuck into the groin area whenever i bent forward.
1996, a Motarola MicroTac International 8400 on Vodafone. I got it in the November when I started a new job. At the time you could chose from a selection of mobile numbers, so I have had the same mobile number since then, as it only has a combination of the same 3 numbers. As I can recall it was a champagne colour, it was a fantastic phone, but it fell out of my pocket when I was getting in the car one day and I ran over it as I drove off. Dohhhh!!!!!!!!!!. It never worked again. Bit like on the link.
https://www.deviantart.com/redfield-...8700-605553711
Motorola c520
Sony Ericsson W800. I loved the games they had on there. A large selection for this time.
Can't remember the model. I think a Orbital in 1992. But it was an analogue one with a small fixed antenna. Costed a fortune at £250. It's best feature was that it had a loud external speaker.
Ericsson GH337
Ericsson GH-388 back in 1995. It seemed crazy high tech at the time!
https://www.technopat.net/db/wp-cont...son-GH-388.jpg
An Orange Tokyo. At 92x35x14 mm, it fitted in a change pocket. Size is everything!
Siemens C25
Nokia 232. Didn't even do SMS, and after about 6 months the battery lasted 10 minutes. Decided I didn't really need a phone for a while, then got tempted by a Dial-a-phone deal on a generic Nokia that did texting!
Motorola fLaRe (their stupid lettering) on one2one. Guessing around 1996/1997 as I held off buying a mobile whilst I saved for a flat. Came free with the contract at about £15/month. No SMS at launch, was launched a little bit later.
Do remember it took a full size SIM card - the same size as a credit card :).
NEC Talk Time Exec 760
Cellular One carrier.
1 trick pony.
illus.pic, not mine.
https://www.ebay.com/c/3024433205
nokia 3210 and a panasonic g350s...still have them and they are still working!
Motorolla flare!
The first one I bought was the Sony Ericsson w580i slider phone. It replaced my old flip phone, a Sony Ericsson z520a, which was the only phone my parents bought me. The w580i had a much better 2 MP camera, versus the older phone's grainy 640x480. It was also considerably thinner, but as a tradeoff was not built like a tank.
The z520a is one of my favorite phones I have used, due to its durability. It had so many interactions with concrete, some simply to demonstrate its durability, never suffering any more damage than a small scratch and the battery popping out, and hours upon hours of conversations in the rain - who needs IP68 classifications when you have a tank? But after 4 years of use, its microphone was giving out, so I bought a used w580i for $55.
The w580i served me well for two stints as a main phone - 16 months initially, with another 10 months later on after the demise of its successor. The sliding mechanism had a satisfying motion and click, and the M2 memory stick slot meant I could store a significant number of mp3s on it. It even had a web browser that worked in a pinch.
In between its two stints, for about two years I had a Sony Ericsson K800i, which I bought used for $77. Its standout feature was a 3.2 megapixel camera with xenon flash. Unfortunately, it was not as durable as the z520a, and perished upon exposure to water.
Some Siemens or Ericsson something or other in the 90s (well it was on contract, not purchased).
Then a trusty old Nokia 3210
Nokia 5110 and 7 day battery life.
My first was the Nokia 3310. The mighty phone which was indestructible :D
Started off with an NEC 11A carphone, then purchased a transportable kit for it, followed by an NEC 9A, Mitsubishi MT4 transportable and Motorola 8800X etc....