Your first ever Mobile Phone and what make and model was it?!

[theboybilly]

This was mine, Motorola M300 on One2One. Think it was about 1995.
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This was my first too, on the 'Free evening and weekend calls tariff'. I rarely ever used it.

 

[wunt be druv]

I had this bad boy..

 

[grubbyhands]

I had this bad boy..

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Ha Ha, Me too. My right arm is still about an inch longer than my left as a result of lugging it about. You could probably jump start a car with it as well.

 

[unklbrian]

One of these little beauts - all 3.5kgs of it !

 

[TSB]

The pos on the right

 

[Spun Cuppa]

I collected tokens from Coca Cola and got a Motorola with a small antenna, and had the CC theme tune as a ringtone

 

[Grombleton]

When that got smashed by my angry sister in a rage, I got one of these

And when that one was stolen, I finally took out my first mobile phone contract which enabled me to get a true TOP OF THE RANGE handset, on Orange's Everyday 50 tariff:

Those were my first two phones...the first one when i was 13 (the Cellnet one). After that and the 5110 i moved to the 3210 then the 3310.

 

[TSB]

Remember referring to this thread for help with the perfect ringtone
https://nortr3nixy.nimpr.uk/showthread.php?164-Ringtone-Sussex-by-the-Sea

 

[Butch Willykins]

I got my first phone in 1995. Didn't send a text till 1999 as you couldn't text cross network. Seems crazy now!

 

[Bad Ash]

This delightful beast entered me into the world of texting:
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This beauty on what was Cellnet

I was given one of these as a hand me down from my parents. I was slightly ashamed of it because all of my mates had one of these (and I can't believe no one has posted a pic of it yet), the Nokia 3210:

I soon jumped on the bandwagon and bought one for myself.

 

[maltaseagull]

Can't remember the make, but it was on cellnet and cost £250 and £60 per moth line rental plus 60p a minute! why on earth did I bother?

Have to admit to being a bit of a poser!

 

[MissGull]

My first phones. Started on Bt Cellnet, on contract. 50 free texts a month! Was also on virgin, O2 and orange.

 

[Nibble]

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My first phones. Started on Bt Cellnet, on contract. 50 free texts a month! Was also on virgin, O2 and orange.

I had that Motorola flip up silver one too. Really thought it was the business at the time.

 

[Mowgli37]

The Nokia 2310, my first and only phone! Still does the job after nearly seven years.

 

[MissGull]

I had that Motorola flip up silver one too. Really thought it was the business at the time.

It's still a real looker. So small, and still the smallest phone I've ever had, and in weight. Came with a very smart leather case too. Not the best phone, technically, but 10/10 for looks.

 

[brakespear]

I had the same Phillips phone that a fair few others here seem to have had, can't remember what model it was but it had a 'Sonar' ringtone I used to like

 

[raymondbriggs]

I collected tokens from Coca Cola and got a Motorola with a small antenna, and had the CC theme tune as a ringtone

You sure it was a motorola.
I got this Ericsson through the Coke promo.

 

[brakespear]

WTF. Presumably everyone on here is in their twenties? Almost everyone in their thirties/forties will say the One2One M300. The first ever affordable mobile (£300 - piss-cheap for a mobile in those days and with free calls to local landlines included), it single-handedly created the whole "mobile phones for everyone not just yuppies" culture and was the first mobile of not just myself but every single person I knew. It was The Beatles of mobiles and I pity those of you too young to have been there at the time to experience it. Everything posted in this thread so far is a Coldplay or Steps at best.

In my forties and never heard of it - maybe it depended on the people you were mixing with (ie the sort of people who would consider calling anything £300 'piss-cheap', even comparatively).

 

[Seagrrl]

Also in my forties. The first mobile I had was the Nokia 5110 because it was affordable (not being £300). I stuck to cheap phones until they started having FM radios on them. I remember in the late 90s a friend of mine had a Nokia brick of some kind, but he could log onto the work mainframe from it when in the pub garden. Amazing to think how mobile technology has developed in such a short time.

 

[MissGull]

Any one have this piece of kit?

And had to stand under this in Brighton station?