How long have you had your latest mobile phone?
How long have you had your latest mobile phone?
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iandbeech

Original Poster:

2,709 posts

287 months

Friday 15th April 2005
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My kids get a new one every 6 months on average but I`ve realised I`ve had mine for over 5 years!!

It`s a Motorola "Timeport" if anyone remembers that far back

Marki

15,763 posts

299 months

Friday 15th April 2005
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Nearly 3 years now , its a Nokia err err urmm little one , battery lasts for ever its been dropped used and abused i will mourn it when it finally packs up

crazydave

2,253 posts

261 months

Friday 15th April 2005
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Almost a year. I'll change it when the contract is up.

JagLover

46,739 posts

264 months

Friday 15th April 2005
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About four years-its a black brick.

I think I will have to get a new one soon though-it doesn't charge up properly.

shadowninja

79,993 posts

311 months

Friday 15th April 2005
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Nokia 8850. Bought it for £350 plus contract!

Nice to see you're bringing your kids up to throw money away. Did someone offer them extra minutes and a car made of ham, Panda?

srebbe64

13,021 posts

266 months

Friday 15th April 2005
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I thought my mobile was quite modern and "trendy". However, my eldest kid laughed at it recently when he took a look at it, because it doesn't take photographs, play music, show football, play games, etc....... His mobile does all of the above, and I don't think I've seen him make a single phone call on it!



telecat

8,528 posts

270 months

Friday 15th April 2005
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Had a Motorola 3690 Since they came outMust have been over four years old! P/X'ed it for a Motorola 620 but gave to son and I took his V150, (fits the case for the 3690).

Jinx

12,018 posts

289 months

Friday 15th April 2005
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I had a Nokia 1611 for a long time until I upgraded to the 3310. Those two lasted me well over six years, though in the last two I've a new one every year....

srebbe64

13,021 posts

266 months

Friday 15th April 2005
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telecat said:
Had a Motorola 3690 Since they came outMust have been over four years old! P/X'ed it for a Motorola 620 but gave to son and I took his V150, (fits the case for the 3690).

This may as well be in Dutch, as far as I'm concerned!

Podie

46,649 posts

304 months

Friday 15th April 2005
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I change mine every year… had the current Orange SPV C500 for a few months now - and very happy with it.

EmmaP

11,758 posts

268 months

Friday 15th April 2005
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I upgraded to a Nokia6230 seven weeks ago because I wanted a phone with a camera I had had my previous mobile for eighteen months.

Woody_450

452 posts

266 months

Friday 15th April 2005
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Had a Nokia 7250 since they came out (2years) then swapped to a Motorola v620 this year, in this time our lass has had 5, maybe 6 different mobiles ?!?

She changes them more often than I change my cars

crazydave

2,253 posts

261 months

Friday 15th April 2005
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Podie said:
I change mine every year… had the current Orange SPV C500 for a few months now - and very happy with it.


That's what I'm after next

Although I am very happy with my Motorola.

wanty1974

3,704 posts

277 months

Friday 15th April 2005
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Got my first Motorola (V980) two months ago and although it's got lots of 3G nobs and whistles, the battery lasts a day and I never get more than two bars of signal. All my previous Nokias have bee fab.

Podie

46,649 posts

304 months

Friday 15th April 2005
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crazydave said:

Podie said:
I change mine every year… had the current Orange SPV C500 for a few months now - and very happy with it.



That's what I'm after next

Although I am very happy with my Motorola.


It's my third SPV (had the original and the E200)…

The C500 has a decent battery life, isn't too bulky, has great functionality, and sync's with Outlook on the PC, so you don't have to mess around with putting in numbers, calendar entries etc, as it just hoovers them up.

Two issues…
1) takes a bit of getting used to, with the texting as the space button is different to the Nokia's I've had previously.
2) It's a Windows OS. In other words, use task manager to get the best out of it, and reboot (off and on again) every day...

lilrallydriver

446 posts

257 months

Friday 15th April 2005
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I currently have one of those LG handsets, cos I'm with 3. Seemed like a great idea at the time, to go with 3... cheap line rental, 500 free minutes, etc... videophone... but I've had to have the bloody thing replaced 3 times already (calls keep cutting off, handset display freezes, you lose reception for no apparent reason, your address book mysteriously vanishes... must I go on?) and it's now much too late to pull out the contract. Ah well!

When the phone works, it's fine... but ... *sigh* Have had it since December... prior to that I tend to change contracts/network/numbers every year!

>> Edited by lilrallydriver on Friday 15th April 09:27

406

3,636 posts

282 months

Friday 15th April 2005
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I have a Motorola V3 which I hate and no longer use and want to sell. It has an ingress of dust between the screen and the protective plastic cover. It scratches easily. Just dont like it. Now using a 6310i and it's perfect.

silverback mike

11,293 posts

282 months

Friday 15th April 2005
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I have had mine for about 3 months. It's one of those fisher price rubbery nokia things that has a camera, video and that rubbish.

Survived getting dipped into a pint as well.

FrenchTVR

1,844 posts

296 months

Friday 15th April 2005
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I've had my Nokia 8910i Titanium phone for just on two years now. It was bought for me as a present because I really liked the look of it.
Good phone, small when closed, syncs with Outlook etc. Battery has a good life on it.
Overall really pleased with it.

Duncan23

142 posts

263 months

Friday 15th April 2005
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I have had my Motorola A1000 for about a month and I love it. I got 256MB of memory for it, and now I use it as a phone and as an MP3 player, and as a camera (though I ever took many photos anyway).
Plus the touchscreen is pretty cool, the handwriting recognition works well and reception is usually pretty good (despite being with 3).
In a months time, when tthe touchscreen is broken I'll be on here complaining, but for now...