Which was the first mobile phone you owned?

[Phat Baz 68]

Very similar to this back in about 94 on Vodaphone
I still have my very first Orange phone in the draw !!

 

[Durlston]

A Motorola in 1998 that was like a brick. Doing text messages was far more difficult as it didn't have predictive text in them days.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Very similar to this back in about 94 on Vodaphone
I still have my very first Orange phone in the draw !!

But do you still have this one?

 

[Phat Baz 68]

But do you still have this one?

Unfortunately not !!!

 

[unklbrian]

It looked rather like this, weighed a ton and cost a fortune.

Bought for work. Thankfully, they paid for it - so I didn't, strictly speaking, own it. The battery pack lasted for about six hours. And the available network coverage was very limited (most of Sussex was out of range).

yep i had one of them in 1986/7ish - like lugging a small car battery around all day !

 

[Colossal Squid]

Philips Savvy. Circa 2000. It was the time where all of my friends and I were all around 10 years old, we had no need for a phone at all but everyone had to have one

That was actually my second ever phone after my younger sister smashed my beloved Motorola. Although I had it on Cellnet, before it became BT Cellnet and then the O2 of today that's owned by Spaniards

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Nokia NGAGE hahaha

That's very much like my second phone, with full keyboard and mp3 player - 'looks weird, sounds great'.

Seems like only yesterday when Nokia ruled the roost!

 

[Madam Cholet]

One of these teeny-tiny things in about 1992. (pretty sure the mic was on the other side though - which was better for me being a left hander)

Well you did ask!

 

[BattFink]

A phillips PH301, still got it & it still works (although the battery is knackered)

 

[Kumquat]

Mine was the bt cellnet one. Dropped it down the khazi in a mates flat in London Bridge while pointing percy at the porcelain. Never worked again.

 

[Colossal Squid]

Old Nokia's seem to hold their value a lot better than other handsets from the same era like Motorolas and Ericssons. I recently dug out a whole load of Nokia handsets from my past and decided to eBay them. Some of them went for far more than I'd expected. So much so that I rounded up all the old handsets from my parents and girlfriend's houses and listed them one by one. Even the really old ones that are in a knackered condition can be bundled together as a job lot and flogged for upwards of £20 a time.

I genuinely wonder what people do with them

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Does anyone know where I can find a GOSBTS ringtone for a Nokia?

 

[upthealbion1970]

 

[Colossal Squid]

Does anyone know where I can find a GOSBTS ringtone for a Nokia?

BBC Sport - Football - Brighton Hove Albion - Fixtures

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

At least most of them had SNAKE.

 

[MORTY]

Nokia 2140.

 

[NickBHAFC18]

My first one I can't remember the model but it was literally a brick. My second one however was the Nokia 3310

Snake was such a fun game.

 

[Madam Cholet]

At least most of them had SNAKE.

Mine didn't but you could do loads of other stuff on it, like making phone calls, making phone calls, making phone calls... oh, and you could make phone calls.

 

[Daffy Duck]

A Motorola in 1998 that was like a brick. Doing text messages was far more difficult as it didn't have predictive text in them days.

Same here. Used to have to charge it up almost every day & it weighed a ton.

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

I think i used that phone more than mine! You always had credit, ''ring joe up he will pick us up, dont fancy getting the bus today!'' lol.

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