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

[Rowdey]

Still got two of these knocking about, in the vain hope that they may be worth something in the fututre.

Nokia 'Orange' NK - £150 from Currys in about 1996 i think.

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[Another Berkshire Seagull]

Nokia... With their return to form I have gone back. Awesome Phones!

 

[Butch Willykins]

This was mine, Motorola M300 on One2One. Think it was about 1995.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Don't remember the make (it was a work phone), but remember some huge cradle sticking out the dashboard of my car, together with microphone and speaker in the sun visor. It took some poor sod all morning to fit it. Hell of a lot of hassle for hands free

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

 

[gullshark]

This beauty on what was Cellnet

 

[Wozza]

Nokia 2110, on the left. Summer 1994.

Changed the phone many times, obv, but had the same number nearly 20 years (except a 7 added to code).

 

[cardboard]

I had one of these bad boys

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I had this one too. The mobile number started 0410 £15 per month. I reckon it was 18-19 years ago

 

[Barrel of Fun]

This one, but not such snazzy colours.

My phones decreased in size for much of my phone life, but now they are getting bigger

 

[¡Cereal Killer!]

Motorola T180

 

[Luke93]

Nokia 3310 as well for me. Handed down from my mother when she got a new phone. I still have it somewhere

 

[Deleted member 18477]

Some Alcatel mobile... Then Nokia 3310. Then I went into the colour screen market then colour screen with camera market... Think I had a Nokia n gage at some point before going for a flip phone and then a samsung slide phone. And then into the Smartphone era.

I wish I had kept all my old phones!

 

[brightn'ove]

Nokia 5110. That 3310 was LIGHT YEARS away for me

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You are my mum and i claim my £10

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Nokia 2110, on the left. Summer 1994.

Changed the phone many times, obv, but had the same number nearly 20 years (except a 7 added to code).

Looks familiar tho I recall starting in 95/6? & same number since, tho profits now go over the channel rather than stay here

 

[Norman Potting]

Nokia 5110. That 3310 was LIGHT YEARS away for me

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Same here - would probably still be using it if they hadn't stopped making the batteries for them!

 

[TopCat]

Nokia 2110, on the left. Summer 1994.

Changed the phone many times, obv, but had the same number nearly 20 years (except a 7 added to code).

I had one of these as well - now being used in a school's "How Things Used to Look" exhibit
I seem to remember when I first got it texting was free as they didn't think anyone would really use it.....

 

[Colossal Squid]

This was my first phone. It wasn't very good

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:

That really was an EXCELLENT phone, in the days when Nokia were by far and away the absolute dons of mobile phones. Nobody else came even close.

Several phones later I got one of these, which I think remains my favourite ever Nokia:

 

[Nibble]

Alcatel. Dunno what model. the only one they ever made? Was given to us staff instead of a Christmas Bonus at Virgin, Think Branson was feeling the pinch. Big, bumpy black and white thing. It looked like a size 9 trainer.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Nokia 7600 that I acquired second hand off a chum. Lovely avocado surround, matched me 70's bathroom suite to perfection. Got funny looks on the train, mind.

 

[Nibble]

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.

Strange post. I'm mid 30's and don't know the phone you speak of. Mind you I wouldn't have spent 300 quid on a phone then or now so I think you may be on your own here.