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What was your first mobile phone?
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Mine was the Nokia 252 with a woodgrain face and extendable antenna and back-lit screen. In 1998 that was the sheeeeit. Was small even by today's standards with lots of cool ringtones. "Why of course you can use my phone. Don't forget to pull up the little antenna".  |
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over a year ago
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I had a mobile phone when I didn't know anyone else with one.
It was 1991 
It cost me a fortune to use.
People used to laugh and point if I used it out and about  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I had a mobile phone when I didn't know anyone else with one.
It was 1991
It cost me a fortune to use.
People used to laugh and point if I used it out and about "
Was it bulky and white? Yeah that was a bit of a kooky gadget back then lol
Some I knew had pagers/beepers back then. You get a page and then go to the nearest payphone booth. You were a certified don if you had one! |
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Do two tin cans connected by string count ?
Limited amount of people you could call but you've got to start somewhere.
Progressed to a pager and then a car phone that was wired in before the holy grail of a brick phone.
I thought I was don Johnson on Miami vice at one point |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Do two tin cans connected by string count ?
Limited amount of people you could call but you've got to start somewhere.
Progressed to a pager and then a car phone that was wired in before the holy grail of a brick phone.
I thought I was don Johnson on Miami vice at one point "
HAHAHA Don Johnson!
Ohh, you win the nostalgia award today for two cans and a string! Lol good memories! |
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"Do two tin cans connected by string count ?
Limited amount of people you could call but you've got to start somewhere.
Progressed to a pager and then a car phone that was wired in before the holy grail of a brick phone.
I thought I was don Johnson on Miami vice at one point
HAHAHA Don Johnson!
Ohh, you win the nostalgia award today for two cans and a string! Lol good memories! "
Happy memories of simpler times |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
Newcastle and Gateshead |
i think i was the last person who worked for carphone warehouse (back in the day when i was at uni) who refused to have a mobile phone...... if people wanted to get in touch i finally compromised with my manager on a pager! (remember them!!!! lol)
when i finally relented i think it was a motorola startac! the 2nd phone i got was a iphone.. the original one!! |
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In the late 90s ... a phillips that my then boyfriend bought off someone for 5 pounds ... it was a pay as you go ....had to buy those scratch cards to top it up. It was bulky and had a black antenna on it ... with a yellow back screen . |
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Mine was a huge Motorola 'brick with an antenna' back in 1995... The days when Ireland had only 1 network provider (Eircell) and you had to stand on chairs, hang out of windows and climb trees to get a signal...  |
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By *i1971Man
over a year ago
Cornwall |
Early 90's Nokia with pull up aerial. Only had a few ring tones, but all variations on a standard "ring-ring"
If I remember correctly, there could even have been a connection fee when anyone phoned me. Battery by today's standards was rubbish.
Despite the size of the phone, I managed to lose it although thankfully they had stated going from analogue to digital then |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Nokia 3310 you pull your phone out of the pocket and girls used to drop their knickers "
Yasss Ol Dawg! Dropping jaws and drawers. Alpha gadgets hahaha  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Phillips diga on bt cellnet ??"
Ooh yes BT cellnet that changed to O2 I think.. I also remember that each phone company had thier own range of numbers anyone else remember? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I had a mobile phone when I didn't know anyone else with one.
It was 1991
It cost me a fortune to use.
People used to laugh and point if I used it out and about
Was it bulky and white? Yeah that was a bit of a kooky gadget back then lol
Some I knew had pagers/beepers back then. You get a page and then go to the nearest payphone booth. You were a certified don if you had one! "
It was, yes!
I loved that phone  |
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"Mine was the Nokia 252 with a woodgrain face and extendable antenna and back-lit screen. In 1998 that was the sheeeeit. Was small even by today's standards with lots of cool ringtones. "Why of course you can use my phone. Don't forget to pull up the little antenna". "
Nokia Mobira Talkman in the 80s when I was on call - Motorola Micro TAC flip phone in 1993 |
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By *ackD9Man
over a year ago
shropshire |
Nokia 2140; the first phone available on Orange... it was a brick but absolutely bomb proof with a battery that lasted for days no matter how much snake you played. The days before predictive text haha!
That was 1993/4 and I still have the same number - and still have the phone (yes, it works!)  |
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A Motorola something or other in ‘98. You could only fit two lines of text on the screen. I genuinely didn’t know about text messaging until my then chap showed me what it was all about. Amazing how much you could convey in just a few words when it was 12p a text! |
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