Snowy_Astra

I had one of the first pay as you go phones in the country on vodaphone the day the pay as you go system was introduced. It was an older model moto than this one, but it was the same shape, and slightly bigger.



Then i had a trusty 5110, great phones (at the time) lol


Everyones had one of these


And one of these bricks lol


Had this one for years up until recently when i got the razr


Top phone




EDIT: Sorry, i feel i've done an injustice to thesamsung A300. It was a pukka phone, its NEVER let me down EVER, and phones don't like me much

Its been dropped in a vat of hot, used engine oil where i had to dismantle it, clean it, and re-assemble. Then it fell in the river when fishing, took battery out, dried on radiator, 2 days later it worked perfectly again. Its been trodden on, dropped, slammed, thrown, chewed, crushed, and it STILL works.

It'll be going to sleep in my top draw for emergencies, which i know will arrise with the new fangled razr

COMEDY DAN

5110 for me and then I had the "snap off" covers for it....

The wood effect.....LOL

jaimesdna

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i had a 1620 for my first phone. got bored 1 day so i took it apart & painted it lime green. was a great phone & bomb proof. absutley loved nokia 8210's, they seemed to just go on & on. still got a nokia 8850. unfortunatly doesn't work anymore but one of my all time favorite phones. have been thinking about a n70 but dunno, might wait for the n90

discodenkelly

The first hone I had was a CTN7000 I think it was. Got it from Simon Robinson on Vodafone 10 odd years ago . It was like a house brick and cost about £5 a min to phone anyone
After that I got a motorola flare then god knows how many nokia phones. Got a 6170 now and it's mint, can't fault it

DazC

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If you was nearer, I'd let you test drive mine.

It's a good business phone which is mainly why I use it. It's got Word, Excel, Power Point, Adobe Reader amongst other things.

It's virtually the same size as one of these....

Chrissy_bwoy

i had one of these, nec shite things.... 50p a min even if it didnt connect



then, nortel nevada



nokia banana



then an 8210



excellent phone,

from then on it goes a bit pear shaped where id have a new phone ever month it got to a point where EBR wouldnt take my numbers down cos id change em every 5 mins

FingerZ!

.....then you attended 'Mobile Phones Annonymous'.....

GARETH T

well if we meet up in the summer ill have a gander at it

Chrissy_bwoy

summit like that

Porkie

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That was my first phone. Loved it still got it actually somewhere

Ginge !

i think text messages first came out when the baby ericson was released, think i payed a extra 1 quid on one 2 one for the privledge too

i remember my sister setting it up for me on my phone as i never even heard about it then getting fucked up text on the phone off all me mates nad everyone thought i was a said fucker for not finding em funny


it was cause the baby ericson only had 1 line of display so all i got was

llllllllf*****( ) *: : ( ) (0 0 =++++,,;;;


when on a fucking nokia would be a sheep getting shagged or somink and all my pikey mates had the nokia 5210 things cause they could afford the brand new baby ericson as they had shit contracts and i had the old "gold " tariff


ahhh them was the days,,,,,,,,,,, phones with melody ring tones,,,,, when they was cool to have ,,,,,,,,,, now you cant even get poxy normal rings on phones

Iain Mac

I started off from 1988 with NEC 11 phones fitted in company cars, which I never used to lock at night until I found out the local kids were using my car as a phone box!!!

Then got a Motorola transportable - very heavy and really crap, and soon went back to the fixed car phone.

Then in 1995 I got a Motorola flip for my first digital phone - I think they called it Startac or something. Also crap.

From 1996 I've had loads of Nokias that I can't recall the model numbers of, but including 5110, 6210, 6310, 6310i, and now a 6230. The work phone was "upgraded" a few months ago from a 6310i to an Orange SPV 500, but the new phone is in its box and the sim card is back in the 6310.

Also, over the years I've bought an NEC 9, Nokia 2010, a couple of Ericsons, and a Nokia 6820 for the wife.

I've still got all of these, and most are still working, except a couple with dead batteries. Is there any market for old phones like these, either to retro fans like Thrush, or to (antique) dealers?

Anonymous

Thats my first phone circa 1974, do you realise that before that we had to use a phone box. Can anyone tell be what you pushed button B for

DaveEscos

Mine was the Motorola M301



proper old skool!

was on one to one free after 7pm and at weekends aswell


had it when i was 14 pmsl... that was 11 years ago

Franco

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I had that fooker...............With the free evenings / weekend tariffs! i was 15 ish, everyone thought i was a drug dealer round my way.........Not a fooking good one though racing around on a grifter!

And all the shonky One2one phones after that.

Now got this shonky W800i...............

GARETH T

i havent a clue rod,, operator?

Simon

Batman

paul16v

I had one of those as my first phone, mine was "chipped" aswell think i still have it somehwere

Andy-R

A To get through?
B To get your money back?

Ginge !

who had a pager before there mobile

i still got mine actually, wonder if it still works