old mobile phones, what did you have?

[anarki]

Very random, I know, but I was reminiscing with friends about our mobile phone history.

They just took off like no other gadget I remember and have now become a massive part of our day to day lifes. The hype and technology never slowed down.

Mobiles I've owned in order (I think)

Philips savvy
Ericsson T10
Samsung SGH E100
Motorola mpx200
Nokia 8250 (genuine model, wish I never sold it)
Nokia 7210
Sony Ericsson K700i
Sony Ericsson W800i
HTC desire
Nokia Lumia 800
IPhone 4s
Samsung galaxy s3.

I know I've owned others but I cannot not remember what they were. I'm not as interested in them as much as I was in my teens to early 20's.

Just looking back though, a lot of wasted money and how times have changed!

[mebe]

Motorola StarTAC - beam me up Scotty!

[Dodsy]

NEC 9A, IMHO the pinnacle of phone design. All went downhill after that. Proper analogue radio that you could listen in on with a scanner.

[Butter Face]

The best phone ever invented, I still have it in my bedside drawer!

[onlynik]

Have many mobiles over the years, the first however was a Nokia "Easy" IIRC, I received it in Australia for opening an account with some electric company. It was a really basic mobile, it couldn't even send texts, however it could receive them.

But have had over the years

Nokia 6210 (Best phone ever)
Nokia 8210
Nokia 5110
Blackberry 9780
Blackberry 7230
HTC Desire
iPhone 3G
iPhone 4S
Sony K300
Sony CMD Z5
Sony Xerpia Z1
Sony W810

Sure there are more, a Motorola on BT cellnet many years ago, or was it a Philips, can't remember.

[ajprice]

There may be some missing, and these may not all be in the right order...

Sony J5, Nokia 3310, Nokia NGage QD, Sony Ericsson T610, Sony Ericsson K700i, Motorola V600, iPhone 3G, iPhone 4.

Due a new phone, probably Android.

Edit: The Sony J5 had a great game on it, you were a monkey in a tree, and you had to go up and down the tree throwing bananas at the monkey on the other side of the screen. Many hours wasted with that monkey .

Edited by ajprice on Thursday 31st July 08:49

[spikeyhead]

I still use a Nokia 6610.

Still works perfectly, though I've changed a few bits on it. I charge it on Wednesdays, whether it needs it or not.

[Otispunkmeyer]

I had a Siemens M35 which was a drop proof and water proof version of the c35 which was a popular phone at school!

Also had some Samsung thing after that and then probably the best non-smart phone I've ever used, the Sony k800i with its 3.2 MP camera with proper camera flash (not an led). Great phone. Replaced with a Nokia 6500 which was pure garbage. It was smart phones after that!!

[SS2.]

Too many to mention - iPhone now, but this behemoth was the very first 'mobile' we had -



Probably still loitering at the back of a cupboard somewhere around the office..

[bakerstreet]

Butter Face said:

The best phone ever invented, I still have it in my bedside drawer!

Agreed. I had one of those and it was a great phone. The only reason I got rid of it was because it got water damage.

This just a rough list:

Nokia 5110 (The user changeable covers were amazeballs at the time!)
Nokia 3210
Nokia 6610
Nokia 7110
Nokia 3310
Nokia 6100
Nokia 8310
Nokia N95 (Terrible battery life. I should have bought a second battery, but I never got round to it)
Sony Ericsson K790i
Sony Ericsson K700i
Sony Ericsson K600i
iPhone 3G
iPhone 3GS
iPhone 4
iPhone 4S
Galaxy S3 (I couldn't be bothered to pay out for another iPhone)

I've had numerous blackberrys over the years for work, but I don't count those. I also went through a stage of having two iPhones as I had one for work and my personal one. I looked like a bit of an idiot.

My switch to Android has been interesting, but at times I really do miss the iPhones. They just work and work quickly where as the my S3 is painfully slow at simple operations.

[Basil Brush]

Butter Face said:

The best phone ever invented, I still have it in my bedside drawer!

I've still got mine and a SE T68i somewhere. I also had a Nokia 8800, the worst phone I've ever owned.

[audi321]

Nokia 6210i and then the 6310i. Quite simply the best phone ever made!

[DoubleSix]

I've still got an Nokia 8800 in box with charger etc

Seem to be changing hands for decent money.

[malks222]

one that sticks out in my memory was the LG- Prada

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada#

this was released at the beginning of the touchscreen phones. i really liked it as a phone (size, weight, screen etc....) at the time. but the software was just too slow.

did anyone else have one?

[Who me ?]

SS2. said:

Too many to mention - iPhone now, but this behemoth was the very first 'mobile' we had -



Probably still loitering at the back of a cupboard somewhere around the office..

Earlier version in the
70's had three channels, and a bit bigger.

[Fas1975]

Had a few but the ones that I remember fondly were:

Nokia 8910i



Motorola Startac v 8088

[parabolica]

Thinking about it I've had more phones than I realised; favourites include the Nokia N90 (chunky flip phone where you could rotate the top half and turn it into a mini camcorder), Samsung V200 (another flip phone with a satisfying click when you opened and closed it - my dad still uses this as his mobile), D500 (one of the first slider phones) and U600 (ultra thin slider) and a SE T610 with the CTU ringtone. Good times, good times

ETA: just remembered my first phone; a Mitsubishi Trium@geo; chunky, flip-down cover for the key pad and extendable aerial; t'was the dogs back in the day

Edited by parabolica on Thursday 31st July 21:49

[Basil Brush]

DoubleSix said:

I've still got an Nokia 8800 in box with charger etc

Seem to be changing hands for decent money.

They must be quite rare as a lot were swapped for 8850s by Nokia after they had been replaced a few times under warranty.

Edited by Basil Brush on Friday 1st August 10:13

[Type R Tom]

Some of the more unusual of mine included:

Mitsubishi Trium Geo - GF's used to love using the WAP to check out horoscopes


Motorola mpx200 - OS (windows mobile) was rubbish but ahead of it's time with video / mp3 and could even play doom with enough loading time

The stick on camera in the SD card slot was particually good!


HTC (or various other names) StarTrek - a nice alternative to the Motorola Razr, again Windows and quite unusual with what it could do compared to my friends and their Nokia's. Little did I know at the time what HTC would become!


As you can tell I always want a little "off piste" with my phone choices, always stayed away from Nokia 3210 & Razr

[mikef]

My first mobile must be in the attic somewhere. At a time when most mobiles were still bricks it was a revelation. Analogue Kokusai phone (precursor of the BT Coral, but cooler). provider was Hutchison Telecom which ended up as part of Vodafone; still have the number on a Vodafone iPhone. I'm sure it's worth a fortune to a collector