Does anyone have an older mobile phone than me?

sunflower27

Seriously, mine is one of those Nokia silver ones I got with 50e free credit about 8 years ago. I have to take a charger with me because it needs that fat pin, not the thin one and a lot of people no longer have them.

I have seen people recoil in horror when they see it, but I love it. It has been everywhere with me, lost numerous times but always found (no-one would bother stealing it).

It has no camera on it either.

I have no intention of replacing it any time soon. I think I'll have it until it dies or is lost for good!

emeraldstar

I don't know, what age are you?

krudler

I had a nokia 3210 up until about 2 years ago, best phone I ever had it was indestructible, many a night it was dropped on the street or kicked across a floor accidentally and still worked, it made calls, sent texts, and had snake on it. ah simple times.

sunflower27

Was just thinking someone would say that:p

sunflower27

krudler wrote: »

I had a nokia 3210 up until about 2 years ago, best phone I ever had it was indestructible, many a night it was dropped on the street or kicked across a floor accidentally and still worked, it made calls, sent texts, and had snake on it. ah simple times.

I think that is the one I have. It is hard core

TheZohanS

I have a working mobile phone from 1995, it takes the credit card size SIM.

mackeire

i still have a nokia 5110. Its used as a back up phone but still works fine. I got it in 1999.

sunflower27

A friend's 9-year-old daughter saw my phone one time and was gobsmacked. She thought it was a new retro one LOL.

robbie_998

I have an iPhone


do i win ? :pac:

aphex™

mackeire wrote: »

i still have a nokia 5110. Its used as a back up phone but still works fine. I got it in 1999.

I had one of those. If you send a text message to it containing only full stops (.......), it switches off completely.

CardBordWindow

sunflower27 wrote: »

Seriously, mine is one of those Nokia silver ones I got with 50e free credit about 8 years ago. I have to take a charger with me because it needs that fat pin, not the thin one and a lot of people no longer have them.

I have seen people recoil in horror when they see it, but I love it. It has been everywhere with me, lost numerous times but always found (no-one would bother stealing it).

It has no camera on it either.

I have no intention of replacing it any time soon. I think I'll have it until it dies or is lost for good!

How long is the iPhone 4 out?

bijapos

I've a Siemens M35 from around 2000 that I use for work, brilliant long life battery, it will easily last a week and pretty much indestructible.

Rebel021

I have a startak
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_StarTAC

hoodwinked

i have two styrofoam cups and a bit of string...


...do i win? :pac:

Skerries

hoodwinked wrote: »

i have two styrofoam cups and a bit of string...


...do i win? :pac:

sorry i can't hear you, can you turn the volume up you're very muffled

hoodwinked

Skerries wrote: »

sorry i can't hear you, can you turn the volume up you're very muffled

*extends string*


better?


maybe if you took off the towel you'd hear me better?

Run_to_da_hills

Have two 5110's and one 5100 builder phone's that can be commandeered back into service if I'm stuck.

Owen

I used to sell GSM phones in 1996, so I've a few of those lying around the house. I use them every now and again for the laugh in public, best one's the Motorola flip phone I have, 12 hours standby and 1 hour talktime new on the battery, and it's HUGE.

I do have a Nokia 7110 which I keep in the car for weak signal areas where the iPhone bombs out. The 7110 ploughs through no bothers.

Princess Peach

I had a phone for 5 years once. I love it! It was this Nokia one with coloured lights on the side that would go in sequence when it rang. It was like a disco in my pocket!

I basically use a phone until it breaks, never one to buy a new one just cause there was a better version available. My phone after disco phone was crap from the beginning but I refused to replace it till my boyfriend thrust a new phone into my hands one day!

stovelid

This isn't one of those threads where ironic nerds compare their ugly brick phones in a paroxysm of retro-trendiness is it?

sunflower27

stovelid wrote: »

This isn't one of those threads where ironic nerds compare their ugly brick phones in a paroxysm of retro-trendiness is it?

It is, so back off!

looksee

I have a nokia 3510i from 2002, absolutely reliable and does all I require from it. Only trouble is that at work when the, ahem, older ladies are all at one table there is a ring of identical brown and orange phones...

mental07

Princess Peach wrote: »

I had a phone for 5 years once. I love it! It was this Nokia one with coloured lights on the side that would go in sequence when it rang. It was like a disco in my pocket!!

This one by any chance? I still have one as a back up phone, got it around 2002

seanbmc

Broke my other phone last month, so I'm stuck using this 3210. It's embarrassing to use in public

sunflower27

seanbmc wrote: »

Broke my other phone last month, so I'm stuck using this 3210. It's embarrassing to use in public

F*ck them. I embrace it now. I have seen the look of horror on people's faces when they see mine and I just say that I am confident enough in myself to not worry about what other people think and I am glad I don't have the compulsion to run out and by the Next Big Thing. They usually feel quite embarassed.

I find the need to prove you have the latest phone/gadget quite tragic

Fiskar

8 year old Nokia 5100 with those rubber casings, in blue, green and black, lost the orange case . Built in thermometer and sound meter. Works a treat.
For work, I have avoided those nasty email at home Blackberries and Galaxys, I use an xpress music I have just inherited to replace my 6230.

stovelid

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~djg11/howcomputerswork/h.jpg

Needler

stovelid wrote: »

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~djg11/howcomputerswork/h.jpg

Pfft young amateur whipper snapper, my one controls the valve in the chimney to operate the smoke signal

seanbmc

sunflower27 wrote: »

F*ck them. I embrace it now. I have seen the look of horror on people's faces when they see mine and I just say that I am confident enough in myself to not worry about what other people think and I am glad I don't have the compulsion to run out and by the Next Big Thing. They usually feel quite embarassed.

I find the need to prove you have the latest phone/gadget quite tragic

Nice

Spread

An old Motorola brick type circa 1989. First small one was a Motorola Flare circa 1992. Both batteries were crap and very expensive - £60 for the Flare. After that an NEC with a pull out aerial. Since then I've stayed with Nokia. I tell the kids that their inheritance is in a cardboard box under the stairs. About ten in all.

phasers

I have a Zack Morris phone around here somewhere, still works too.

Bought it off ebay as a joke gift for a friend but it was so awesome I kept it

ejmaztec

phasers wrote: »

I have a Zack Morris phone around here somewhere, still works too.

Bought it off ebay as a joke gift for a friend but it was so awesome I kept it

I’ve got a Dom Joly one

Mr Benevolent

OP you're an anachronism. Buy a new phone or suffer the inevitable social psuedoconsequences.

Forever alone etc...

sunflower27

Confab wrote: »

OP you're an anachronism. Buy a new phone or suffer the inevitable social psuedoconsequences.

Forever alone etc...

Not at all. And never!!!

antodeco

Having worked in the phone industry since 1999, I have pretty much a warehouse of every phone made since c1996. First one was an Ericsson GA628. Still works! I also have a Motorola that is on the old TACS network. Not even texts!

ejmaztec

Confab wrote: »

OP you're an anachronism. Buy a new phone or suffer the inevitable social psuedoconsequences.

Forever alone etc...

No, there's bound to be someone else out there who understands Latin text messages.

sunflower27

ejmaztec wrote: »

No, there's bound to be someone else out there who understands Latin text messages.

I know... look at the mighty great choice I have here already. Seriously, WOW

Kojak

My phone...

http://www.grandtheftwiki.com/images/First_mobile_phone1.jpg

sunflower27

Kojak wrote: »

My phone...

http://www.grandtheftwiki.com/images/First_mobile_phone1.jpg

That... took... my breath.... away

So masculine. Phwoar!!!

Mr Benevolent

ejmaztec wrote: »

No, there's bound to be someone else out there who understands Latin text messages.

What, like 'Efutue, ejmaztec'?

ejmaztec

Confab wrote: »

What, like 'Efutue, ejmaztec'?

Wasn't he a Chinese guy?

tvnutz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_3210

My first phone,and what a phone! Every teenager had one at the time,had snake which we thought was amazing. You could make your own ringtones by entering in musical notes if I remember correctly.

memories!

Sheeps

a mate of mine still uses his panasonic gd52 that he got in 2000 with eircell.

starlit

I used to have a phone similar to yours maybe slightly older, lasted years until it stopped working. I got a new phone so didn't mind, tended to upgrad my phones after that but once I got a phone that only lasted a year and had already a decent phone but upgraded. Silly me, don't fix it if it ain't broke so stopped upgrading my phones since and only get new ones unless my phone goes out of order. Currently have my current phone for two years but the screen is getting scratched, but will hang onto it for a while anyway, if it starts giving me trouble I might go for a simple smartphone!

sunflower27

tvnutz wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_3210

My first phone,and what a phone! Every teenager had one at the time,had snake which we thought was amazing. You could make your own ringtones by entering in musical notes if I remember correctly.

memories!

Mine now is probably an upgrade or two of that. Never broken. That's staying power

Toby Take a Bow

tvnutz wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_3210

My first phone,and what a phone! Every teenager had one at the time,had snake which we thought was amazing. You could make your own ringtones by entering in musical notes if I remember correctly.

memories!

Memories indeed! I stupidly traded this in after having it for years, despite it still working. These phones were actually built to last, not like the Sony Ericsson I have now. Having said that, I now refuse to get a different phone until the old one completely conks.

Stay with your old one, people. As long as it makes and receives calls and texts, that's all you need.

Princess Peach

mental07 wrote: »

This one by any chance? I still have one as a back up phone, got it around 2002

No It was this one

Some damn good times with that phone. Could even print out your own picture and had stencils to cut into the shape of the cover.

Mickey H

Had an Esat Digiphone Speakeasy SIM card until it stopped working last week. Got it back in 2001. The girl in The Carphone Warehouse thought I was taking the pi$$ when I went in to replace it! She was gobsmacked when I put it on the counter! Still have the same number as it was just a replacement. Does that count??