How old is your mobile phone?

Flukey

I don't change my phone regularly, as some people seem to. I have my current one since September 2003 and it is still going strong. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles that many phones do, but as I am just a talk and text person, it does what I need it to do. It's a Nokia 3510i. Some people seem to change their phone very regularly. How long have you got yours?

dade

Flukey wrote: »

I don't change my phone regularly, as some people seem to. I have my current one since September 2003 and it is still going strong. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles that many phones do, but as I am just a talk and text person, it does what I need it to do. It's a Nokia 3510i. Some people seem to change their phone very regularly. How long have you got yours?

couple of months, have a habit of drooping them down the can and what not

Rob_l

phones get traded up every 12 months

missmatty

Nearly a year and a half, usually upgrade once every 2 years, unfortunately I never lose or break it

xzanti

The handset itself is about 7 months old but I have the same model since Xmas 06/07, the first one was stolen on me :mad:

challengemaster

few months, had the one before that for years tho

Heisenberg.

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KatiexKOUTURE--

Had mine since march last year..

Anybody else get really sick of their fone really quickly?

Adam

Flukey wrote: »

I don't change my phone regularly, as some people seem to. I have my current one since September 2003 and it is still going strong. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles that many phones do, but as I am just a talk and text person, it does what I need it to do. It's a Nokia 3510i. Some people seem to change their phone very regularly. How long have you got yours?

G'wan Flukey! Me and you mate!

Can't beat the 3510i. Durable as hell, I've thrown mine around a whole bunch, lashed it against a wall in the pub once in anger at the missus at the time, my mates didn't know what was going on as I said nothing, just stood up and threw the phone across the bar! Oh, and I played target practice in my mates flat, his second floor sitting room window was open just a few inches, managed to get the phone through the gap, catching the window fairly hard, and then falling on to the street below.

That was three years ago...

Adam

The Scientist wrote: »

Due to my affinity for losing phones i now...

FYP :pac:

MistyCheese

I have two phones. A Sony Ericsson that I got at Christmas 2007 (but didn't use until February '08) and a Motorola that I got August 2006.

seamus

Usually change it once a year. More often if the mood takes me.

But I'm exceptionally tough on phones. The phone I got last August is pretty screwed. Two of the buttons and the little stick thing don't work unless you press on them hard and it's scratched to bejaysus.

Xavi6

Nokia E65 going strong after a year. No plans to change it.

Blisterman

I regret changing phones. I had the cheapest pay as you go phone, which was about 2 years old, when I upgraded, and still could last a week between chargings. My current phone is lucky if it lasts 2 days.

Duggy747

My Nokia phone is about 2 years old. I bought it cuz a friend recommended it to me plus I always wanted a phone with a good camera on it - I could be entertained for hours playing around with a camera. I've never had any problems with it until I recently lost the memory card but ended up buying a 2GB + SD card adapter for less than a tenner

I've noticed with a load of newer Nokia phones that the 2mp cameras aren't as good as they used to be, you can faintly make out this greenish grid on pictures.

One of my friends is hopeless with phones. Nearly every month he's got a new one and within a week I always see him poking at it with a nail cuz it's missing keys, missing case, cracked screen, covered in plaster, etc

Kovik

4 years on mine. No camera or media message support. The back's falling off and I just about get 1 day's battery life per full charge.

It has a qwerty keyboard that I don't want to surrender. Girlfriend tried to get me to change a while back but there's was no way I was letting her get her hands on Old Betty.

The Bollox

I got a SE w810i in February last year and still have it. I may have to change it soon though as the recarge port is really p*ssing me off now. I have a Nokia 3310 as my backup phone. I have had that for years. great phone, the only thing I don't like about it is the lack of a mass delete option for text messages, you have to go through them one-by-one

Gavin "shels"

I get free phones, so change it whenever I get a new one.:cool: Have my phone under a year.

rossie1977

have had my current phone since november 2004 and no plans to change it unless it blows up or gets lost.

i had gone through at least 5 handsets in the 2 years previous to getting my current model so i am a bit wary of stupid malfunctioning phones :mad:

Flukey

Mirror wrote: »

G'wan Flukey! Me and you mate!

Can't beat the 3510i. Durable as hell, I've thrown mine around a whole bunch, lashed it against a wall in the pub once in anger at the missus at the time, my mates didn't know what was going on as I said nothing, just stood up and threw the phone across the bar! Oh, and I played target practice in my mates flat, his second floor sitting room window was open just a few inches, managed to get the phone through the gap, catching the window fairly hard, and then falling on to the street below.

That was three years ago...

I haven't given mine as much abuse as you've given yours, but my Nokia 3510i is going strong. I often go into the phone shops to see what is there, but I always come to the conclusion that what I have is as good as any of them and that I should hold onto it.

Terry

I have no idea what model my phone is.
I've only ever bought one and that was a nokia 6xxx that I bought two years ago.

It was capable of connecting to wireless internet long before the iphone was even heard of. Had a large screen and I had a 4GB memory.
Left it in the pub one night and, due to a small miscommunication and the fact that there are two Rye bridges in Leixlip, I never saw it again.

The one I have now, I got from a friend.

It makes and takes calls and sends and recieves texts.
That's good enough for me.

Well, except for the fact that I forgot to charge it after getting it back from a cab driver last night.

Rb

Have had mine a year. Dropped it a few months ago and thought I'd have to replace it but it appears to have fixed itself.

melekalikimaka

w800i

everything has been replaced in it at some stage... is slowly dying

Run_to_da_hills

I have three phones of which I chop and change sim cards with, i.e. if I am working on a site I would use a Nokia 5100 for normal use a N95 and also a 5140.

Terry

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

I have three phones of which I chop and change sim cards with, i.e. if I am working on a site I would use a Nokia 5100 for normal use a N95 and also a 5140.

Bring back the Nokia 5110.

A friend dropped one in the toilet in the chipper after the pub one night.
I went in after him and started to piss before noticing the phone.
I finished, flushed the jacks and told him where the phone was.
He took it out of the toilet and it was working the next day.

You could drop a box of tiles on one of them fúckers and it would still work.

Jay P

I got mine after Crimbo this year. It's goin pretty well, and like all my phones, gets dropped a lot. And I mean A LOT!!!. In the last hour I've dropped it or seen it fall twice. It's still flying though which Im pretty happy with. It's a 6600 methinks. Its far better than my last phone a 5300 which was quite possibly the worst phone ever. A god awful phone that started breaking 2 weeks after I got it. The screen broke finally and I was told it would cost €120 to replace, even though a new 5300 would be €100. WTF?:eek:

Brouhaha

I thought mine was about four years old but I checked and have a text message on it from 2002! Time flies. Nokia 6310i.

AlmightyCushion

Terry wrote: »

Bring back the Nokia 5110.

A friend dropped one in the toilet in the chipper after the pub one night.
I went in after him and started to piss before noticing the phone.
I finished, flushed the jacks and told him where the phone was.
He took it out of the toilet and it was working the next day.

You could drop a box of tiles on one of them fúckers and it would still work.

My dad had one of those years ago, the thing was indestructible.

There was dust on the screen so he threw it into a tub of water.
I was playing snake on it one day and dropped it. The phone bounced of the groung and straight into the fireplace, with the fire still going. Took it out and the case was melted a little on the back. Still worked fine though.
Dropped numerous times, once or twice out of a moving car.


I've had my k800i for about 14 months now. I'm tempted to upgrade even though I don't need to.

Sherifu

Years and years.

brianthebard

i've had my motorola v1050 two years now,its passed its best though.would love something like a n95 or a blackberry.my uncle in law bought an n95 a while ago but can't use it and is back on his old one maybe i cn buy it from him cheap.
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takola

Mine's about 3.5 months old. I change phones alot. Think I'll be stickin with this one for as long as possible though!

Abi

Mine is about 2 months old. I drop my phone a couple of times a day, because Im late for everything. So they generally never last much longer than 2-3 months. The camera is already fcuked on it, so nearly new phone time again.

jesus_thats_gre

Every 6 to 12 months.. Gotsta have the newest and best phone.

Basq

iPhone gotten in March of this year.. so not old!

omb0wyn5ehpij9

I've had my phone about 6 months, was a Christmas present from the ex!

burgess1

I've had a Nokia 6300 (I think) for about 3 months now. I only had the one before that for a few months. It was a sliding Nokia and I managed to get sand between the 2 parts. Had a Sony Ericsson K800i for over a year before that.

MooseJam

have it a few months, will probably change it, it's a samsung with touch sensitive buttons that do things whenever they feel like it

Basq

MooseJam wrote:

have it a few months, will probably change it, it's a samsung with touch sensitive buttons that do things whenever they feel like it

Think my girlfriend has the same phone.. tis an oddity alright!

Toots

I end up with a new phone every few months, I just don't seem to have any luck with them, once a phone comes into my posession, it's days are numbered!

omb0wyn5ehpij9

Toots85 wrote: »

I end up with a new phone every few months, I just don't seem to have any luck with them, once a phone comes into my posession, it's days are numbered!

You sound exactly like one of my friends! He is terrible with phones (and anything electrical to be honest), they always just seem to break on him

tracker-man

2 months. I'm a techie and 'need' to have the latest cause i just love it. Even if i don't use all of the features i have, its the fact that i can use all them features! Nokia e51, i have always stuck with nokia, best quality imo.

omb0wyn5ehpij9

tracker-man wrote: »

i have always stuck with nokia, best quality imo.

I used to think that aswell, I had plenty of phones, I used to change my phone every couple of months and always stuck with Nokia, but changed to Sony Ericcson about a year and a half ago and it was a great decision!

tracker-man

BrynW wrote: »

I used to think that aswell, I had plenty of phones, I used to change my phone every couple of months and always stuck with Nokia, but changed to Sony Ericcson about a year and a half ago and it was a great decision!

Ya i had a motorolla a while back, didn't like it one bit and i kind of said, never again. I must experiment with other
Makes and models alright.

Ruu_Old

My current phone (Nokia 6030), have that for 3-6 months but a Nokia 6310i that I am not using is about 8-10 years old. I have older ones at my house in Ireland though, some working and others not. G'wan the brick!

Flukey

I started this thread in June 2008. Today I have my phone for exactly 8 years, and it is still going strong. In the intervening period since the thread started I've seen friends and family go through many phones. Many of those have been fancy phones with all the bells and whistles that can do everything bar make the tea. They get a few months out of them. Mine, as you will see from the first post, is a Nokia 3510i.

Many times since I've got it I've thought about upgrading, but every time I've come back to the conclusion that the one I have works fine, so why change? It does the two things that I and most people want to do with their phones, namely talk and text. If the phone I have can last 8 years, and still go strong, why get a new fantastic phone that won't last a year? They can't be that good if that is all they last. As it enters its 9th year, you can keep all your fancy phones because I am sticking with what I have. For all the wonderful things the modern phones can do, they don't make them like they used to.

So, as the thread asks, how old is your mobile phone, and to add extra questions, how often do you change it and how many have you had in the last 8 years, or even just the lifetime of this thread?

Tar.Aldarion

had mine for 9 years and recently got my second phone

Stinicker

I have the iPhone4 since Marchand its a brilliant phone, forgot my old phone in the back of a taxi at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport on my deaprture for home and it was a case of try and track down the phone or miss my flight home, I figured that buying a new flight would be more expensive and left it at that. First time losing a phone in my eleven years as a Mobile phone customer.

meoklmrk91

Just over a year but I bought it second hand so it's probably about 2 years old. It's an iPhone 3gs and it is bomb proof, I have dropped it hundreds of times, has had 3 smashed screens and been submerged in a puddle of water. The only thing thats wrong is the headphone jack is gone a but wonky and needs to be replaced, which will cost me nothing as I will do it myself as with the screens. What a phone....:cool::cool:

x_Ellie_x

I think its about 2 years old now. I only change my phone if its broken.

partyatmygaff

Nearing 18 months now on my launch day HTC Desire. The only reason I haven't upgraded yet is there hasn't been any major leap yet in specs to tempt me to upgrade.

Ms. Pingui

My current phone is nearly a year old which is the longest a phone has lasted me in good while! I keep an old block of a nokia as a spare though. That thing is invincible!