RonManager Posted 22 October, 2009 Posted 22 October, 2009 Yesterday I upgraded my Nokia N95 for a Samsung M8800, my 6th in all. It was almost 10 years to the day that I got my 1st mobile phone and here they are - are they cr*p or are they classics and worth millions on Ebay?
RedAndWhite91 Posted 22 October, 2009 Posted 22 October, 2009 Did you not have one of these stylee ones? Disappointing.
Pancake Posted 22 October, 2009 Posted 22 October, 2009 I got my first one when I was 17... so that was...14 years ago? Bloody hell! Some Motorola thing, a Nortel thing, Nokia 5110, Nokia 6120, another Nokia i cant think of, another Motorola clamshell, A Siemens, A Sony Erickson, Nokia N73, Nokia N95. Plus 5 different work ones too (all Nokia, all bricks)
RonManager Posted 22 October, 2009 Author Posted 22 October, 2009 Did you not have one of these stylee ones? Disappointing. We had one of those in 1990-ish when I worked in Edinburgh. It sat on the office window sill and took 5 years to charge up and if you made a 1 minute call it went flat again. Everyone was rather in awe of it and I don't remember anyone actually using it!
Al de Man Posted 22 October, 2009 Posted 22 October, 2009 Did you not have one of these stylee ones? My brother did circa 1991. I used it once when he was taking me back to digs. "Hi. It's me. I'm coming back with my brother. Any chance you can do a bit more food for him? We're on the motorway. Yeah, I know. It's amazing, isn't it?" That cost him about a quid.
RedAndWhite91 Posted 22 October, 2009 Posted 22 October, 2009 Think I got my first mobile phone when I was about 10, must have been about 2001. Was one of them classic Nokia ones, and I have had Nokia since. It's strange you lot talking about "1990-ish" and so on, and 1991 (year I was born) as I can't really imagine life without mobile phones, as they have been there for all my life really. It's hard to comprehend what it would have been like in the 70's as a lad my age without a phone in my pocket!
the stain Posted 22 October, 2009 Posted 22 October, 2009 I still haven't got over what a fantastic invention they are. When I was a kid I used to have these crazy notions about a device you could carry around with you and talk to anyone you wanted. They're still pretty ****ing sci-fi IMO.
RonManager Posted 22 October, 2009 Author Posted 22 October, 2009 mmmmmmmmmmmm....friiiiiiiiied braiiins.
Dog Posted 22 October, 2009 Posted 22 October, 2009 My 1st phone was a Motorola flip phone which was analogue, with the help of 2 pieces of tin foil I could turn it into a scanner, and so listen to the pigs, affairs and other very dodgy conversations. I was once given the address of a bag containing £6k in cash hidden in a horse box for the local building contractor to collect at 10am in the morning. Happy days! Then they changed all networks to digital.↲Anyone else use this method to bribe the local vicar over his gangbang with the gravedigger and the choir ladies?
Dog Posted 22 October, 2009 Posted 22 October, 2009 18 years of mobile phone abuse, I am officially 80% deaf in my right ear.
RedAndWhite91 Posted 22 October, 2009 Posted 22 October, 2009 18 years of mobile phone abuse, I am officially 80% deaf in my right ear. Pardon?
Saint_Jonny Posted 22 October, 2009 Posted 22 October, 2009 My first phone in 1999 when I was 10 what a brick.
Thedelldays Posted 22 October, 2009 Posted 22 October, 2009 i had THAT nokia that everyone seemed to have had...circa 1998/1999 and used to play snake all the time...lol
Dog Posted 22 October, 2009 Posted 22 October, 2009 My first phone was when I was 4, I had to lift it with both hands and dial with my tongue.
equalizer Posted 22 October, 2009 Posted 22 October, 2009 I remember my first one. God it was knackering carrying that red phone box around on my back all day!
Colinjb Posted 22 October, 2009 Posted 22 October, 2009 My first phone in 1999 when I was 10 what a brick. My first phone back in 2000. Loved it for about five minutes, then I upgraded to this: What a phone.
CB Fry Posted 22 October, 2009 Posted 22 October, 2009 Think I got my first mobile phone when I was about 10, must have been about 2001. Was one of them classic Nokia ones, and I have had Nokia since. It's strange you lot talking about "1990-ish" and so on, and 1991 (year I was born) as I can't really imagine life without mobile phones, as they have been there for all my life really. It's hard to comprehend what it would have been like in the 70's as a lad my age without a phone in my pocket! The seventies? Try the nineties.
Denzil Posted 22 October, 2009 Posted 22 October, 2009 2003 saw the introduction of video phones, meaning you could watch porn on the bog at work and whack one off.
RedAndWhite91 Posted 22 October, 2009 Posted 22 October, 2009 The seventies? Try the nineties. But there were mobile phones in the 90's!
CB Fry Posted 22 October, 2009 Posted 22 October, 2009 But there were mobile phones in the 90's! "Lads your age" did not "go out with phones in their pockets" in the vast majority of nineties! Trust me, I was and I didn't!
RedAndWhite91 Posted 22 October, 2009 Posted 22 October, 2009 "Lads your age" did not "go out with phones in their pockets" in the vast majority of nineties! Trust me, I was and I didn't! Fair play haha
gaz Posted 22 October, 2009 Posted 22 October, 2009 (edited) My history: Mitsubishi Trium (1999) Nokia 5146 Nokia 3310 (that one up there that Colinjb posted). Nokia 3300 Nokia 6610i Nokia 7270 Sony Ericsson K800i And my current one, the Samsung i8510 (Innov8): Edited 25 October, 2009 by gaz
hamster Posted 22 October, 2009 Posted 22 October, 2009 My first phone in 1999 when I was 10 what a brick. My first phone above /\. Mine had a funny little idiosyncrasy, whereby every time I turned the thing off and back on, the credit was back up to tenner. And for some strange reason I had to pay double what they sold for in the shops!!! Brilliant phone, I loved the voice tags even if I only ever did phone one number. What was the phone shaped like an oyster cum teardrop which can bypass any Bluetooth security surreptitiously?
Ponty Posted 22 October, 2009 Posted 22 October, 2009 I didn't know oysters produced semen or that they produced it from their eyes. Or that they had eyes, for that matter.
RedAndWhite91 Posted 22 October, 2009 Posted 22 October, 2009 My first phone above /\. Mine had a funny little idiosyncrasy, whereby every time I turned the thing off and back on, the credit was back up to tenner. And for some strange reason I had to pay double what they sold for in the shops!!! Brilliant phone, I loved the voice tags even if I only ever did phone one number. What was the phone shaped like an oyster cum teardrop which can bypass any Bluetooth security surreptitiously? Nokia7600??
Al de Man Posted 22 October, 2009 Posted 22 October, 2009 What kind of food was it? Proper home-made Indian made from scratch. None of this tikka marsala b*ll*cks.
the stain Posted 23 October, 2009 Posted 23 October, 2009 "Lads your age" did not "go out with phones in their pockets" in the vast majority of nineties! Trust me, I was and I didn't! When I got my first one it was about '98 and there was still a slightly unacceptible whiff of 'yuppie' about them. Some of my mates took the ****.
Deppo Posted 23 October, 2009 Posted 23 October, 2009 Proper home-made Indian made from scratch. None of this tikka marsala b*ll*cks. Nice work.
Rattlehead Posted 23 October, 2009 Posted 23 October, 2009 Yesterday I upgraded my Nokia N95 for a Samsung M8800, my 6th in all. What sort of weirdo has 6 Samsung M8800s?
Patrick Bateman Posted 23 October, 2009 Posted 23 October, 2009 Yesterday I upgraded my Nokia N95 for a Samsung M8800, my 6th in all. It was almost 10 years to the day that I got my 1st mobile phone and here they are - are they cr*p or are they classics and worth millions on Ebay? I think I got my 1st one in 1993 when I was at college and 17. It was a Panasonic phone, analogue, with 9 minutes talk time. Fab! The 1st mobile phone I remember using was in my Uncle's car in the mid-80s, a proper car phone, with a cable that came from the armrest. I remember people being amazed when we phoned up "5 minutes down the road". Great days, simple fun!
ecuk268 Posted 23 October, 2009 Posted 23 October, 2009 Ah, the days of analogue phones. Spent many hours listening to conversations on my scanner. Heard quite a few blokes talking to their bits on the side. Once heard Jim Smith when he was manager down the road. The language he was using would make a sailor blush. Digital ruined it all.
Hatch Posted 23 October, 2009 Posted 23 October, 2009 I can't remember what phone I had 5 years ago , never mind 15 years ago.
Thedelldays Posted 23 October, 2009 Posted 23 October, 2009 i do agree that iPhones are over rated....wish I never got one
bridge too far Posted 23 October, 2009 Posted 23 October, 2009 i do agree that iPhones are over rated....wish I never got one Absolutely disagree. I've had mobile phones since 1994 and the iPhone is without a doubt the best phone I've ever had.
RedAndWhite91 Posted 23 October, 2009 Posted 23 October, 2009 Thank you, I want one. They are about six years old! My mate had one when we were in year 9 haha, fairly awkward to use if I remember correctly.
bridge too far Posted 23 October, 2009 Posted 23 October, 2009 Just read that a Universal Charger is now being produced. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8323018.stm About bloody time too!
Rattlehead Posted 23 October, 2009 Posted 23 October, 2009 Absolutely disagree. I've had mobile phones since 1994 and the iPhone is without a doubt the best phone I've ever had. Rattlehead in agreeing with BTF shocker.
RonManager Posted 23 October, 2009 Author Posted 23 October, 2009 Rattlehead in agreeing with BTF shocker. I'm having fun finding my way round my M8800. This touch screen mullarkey is weird, you've got to get the pressure right and try to avoid pressing keys you don't want. I went out in the van today with it in my pocket and forgot to lock it. I seem to have rung a few hundred people and I'd been on the web for an hour! I knew something was up when the radio came on in my pocket!!
bridge too far Posted 23 October, 2009 Posted 23 October, 2009 Rattlehead in agreeing with BTF shocker. Easy..............
Smirking_Saint Posted 23 October, 2009 Posted 23 October, 2009 10 years, hmm, so has the head cancer rate gone up ??? Or was it all just a scare tactic ??
hamster Posted 23 October, 2009 Posted 23 October, 2009 My first,the Sony 'Mars Bar' ...or the Linda Lovelace, taking phone sex to an altogether new level.
saint boggy Posted 24 October, 2009 Posted 24 October, 2009 My first phone in 1999 when I was 10 what a brick. don't be so hard on yaself...........it was probably fashionable at the time!
richie Posted 30 October, 2009 Posted 30 October, 2009 Nothing can beat the Nokia 3210 circa 1999/2000! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_3210 That was the first phone I had and kicked off the whole mobile thing IMO. Come on it had 'snake' on it. Many a uni lecture playing that on the back round
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