Retro mobiles

bitemybanger

My first ever mobile was a Nokia 5110 Followed by a 3210 and they were all the rage back then. I can remember the first colour screen and the first camera phone, monophonic ringtones swiched to polyphonic and then watching videos was a big thing.
have a root in the junk drawer and dig out the old relics, take a pic, post it up.

bitemybanger

I know its not that old but it was very cool back then:D

Ruu_Old

Still have my N-Gage, battery life is brutal on it. Use to play FIFA versus my brother, good fun. I also had the Sims Bustin' Out.

First mobile was a blue and silver Motorola on Eircell Ready to Go. Had a few 3210s, 3310s, 6310is (now my current phone).

Jordan 199

First cellphone I had was an Ericsson T10. The flap on it broke though and replaced it with a Sony Ericsson T230.

My first mobile was the nokia 3210 (1999) and second was the siemens c25, a little green phone (2000) i loved it. My dad still has a nokia 3310 from 2001, still working!

Lawrence1895

The first one, I had, was an Ericsson as well, don't know the model anymore, but it was huge...like a phone booth

gipi

Got my first mobile in 1996 - a Nokia (can't remember the model). I know it didn't do text messaging (or SMS as we still called it then!!), coz it didn't have a screen per se - it had a one-line display like a calculator which showed the number you were dialling!

Had a 6 digit mobile number too (before they updated them to 7 digits).

Buddy of mine also had a work mobile back in the mid-90s, which was an 088 (analog mobile), predating the 087 (digital mobile) service!

PS - still have the same phone number I got back in 1996!

WindSock

I had the Philips Savvy, got it free with an AIB student account I opened in 1999. Haven't used the account since.



Oh cool, a German promo vid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_plfn3AlpWk

x_Ellie_x

I got my first mobile as a birthday present when I was in 6th year in 1999. It was a Nokia 3210.

event

WindSock wrote: »

I had the Philips Savvy, got it free with an AIB student account I opened in 1999. Haven't used the account since.

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Das Kitty

This in this colour.

I won it in a toffee crisp promo in 1999. It was stolen a few months later. I was gutted. My mam just said "Easy Come, Easy Go."

Kojak

My first mobile was also a Nokia 3210 - God they must have been popular back in the day.

bitemybanger

The aul 5110. When customising a phone ment sticking a cover on it.

L1011

First phone was a very VERY early Panasonic GSM phone, second hand and ancient. When it died I got this beast:

http://www.gsmarena.com/nec_db500-155.php

Fantastic signal, until the aerial broke off and I ended up getting a 3210 as a replacement.

edit: Panasonic was this I think. The dates are definitely wrong, as it claims all those phones came out in 1999! http://www.gsmarena.com/panasonic_gd70-123.php

WindSock

I could never remember which model of Nokia was what, and I owned a few different ones over 10 years.

Always baffled when people'd ask 'oh is that the 3321? I was going to get that but got the 5145 instead, it is almost as good but not as good as the 8840 of course....' [/head asplodes]

DWCommuter

This was my first mobile circa 1995. A Maxon. It was about 9 inches long and 3 inches wide. I was uber cool.:D

bitemybanger

DWCommuter wrote: »

This was my first mobile circa 1995. A Maxon. It was about 9 inches long and 3 inches wide. I was uber cool.:D

It will be hard to top that one:D
Very cool. still your current phone?;)

Vote 4 Pedro

My first mobile was a "Transportable" the size of a lap top today, it weighed a ton and a full size hand set. cost a fortune as well.

My first real mobile was a Mitsubishi MT5. you could "poke your eye out" with the 8" aerial.

Agent_99

This was mine c.1997

Jordan 199

Bitemybanger, is your N-Gage now retired?

murphym7

Agent_99 wrote: »

This was mine c.1997

I had one of those too, bloody big yoke too -

Dyr

Think mine was a motorola startac..I found it....

Actually a local junkie dropped it and I let them wander off then claimed it as my own. They were thieving gits anyway :pac:

pawrick

me and two of my friends bought a 3210 each when we went to college - still have it at home somewhere.

My next phone was a Nokia 7200 flip phone - great phone and it's between that and my old SE K800i for my favourite of all my phones to date.

Orando Broom

The Oul fella's first phone.

http://www.retrofones.com/nec-p3-not-for-sale-p-114.html

Still has it at home somewhere.

admiralofthefleet

i had a nokia ringo

Muirgheal

I read this thread last night, and then discovered these while pulling out my suitcase in the garage....

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BILD1505 by Muirgheal, on Flickr

NEC Model No. MP5B2B2 circa 1997
Mitsubishi FZ-852A from 1989 :eek:

Asked the auld lad WTF he's hanging on to these for and he reckons they'll be worth money some day?!? Chargers and boxes are there too.

bullets

I had a Siemans C25 which I think was a few years ahead of its time
when it was released. It was TINY compared to other Bricks of phones at the
time.

~B

Run_to_da_hills

First phone was an NEC P100 Battery life was so bad that the charger cradel unit could charge 2 batteries at once. I then went Panasonic GD 90.

mosesgun

Still have this lovely Ericcson GA628. Solid phone she was.

bitemybanger

mosesgun wrote: »

Still have this lovely Ericcson GA628. Solid phone she was.

The old man had this phone, used to be able to change the colour of the face.
Good one

Jordan 199

Ericsson T10 missing it's front flap which went over the keypad and it's missing it's ariel.



On the top left of the phone it has a light which flashed on and off which is also known as a breathing light.

L1011

Jordan 191 wrote: »

On the top left of the phone it has a light which flashed on and off which is also known as a breathing light.

I still have the breathing light option on on my phone (most recent Nokia's have it as an option) from too many years of using Ericssons!

Jordan 199

MYOB wrote: »

I still have the breathing light option on on my phone (most recent Nokia's have it as an option) from too many years of using Ericssons!

Yup, my Nokia has a white breathing light, which you can activate/deactivate. It's in a centre button that's at the end of the screen.

telecinesk

Here, nother one from old days. Motorola 620i "portable", have it still as a door stop. Wow the call quality was stunning ofc.Analogue was the future etc. Had a 3200 also, omg that was a lethal weapon gsm.

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my first phone in 2000, when my dad upgraded and moved to Esat, i got his old phone! weighed a ton!, had a 5110 after, then a 3210. had the 3210 for nearly 2 years id say

massiveattack

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Jordan 199

telecinesk wrote: »

Here, nother one from old days. Motorola 620i "portable", have it still as a door stop.

That phone must weigh a ton lol.

source

This was my favourite phone from back in the day. Absolutely loved it.

Edit: not only was it a great phone, but was free with AIB account. Being a student was great wasn't it?

Cee-Jay-Cee

I got a panasonic G520 back in 1997, then changed to a Nokia 3210 and then changed/upgraded more or less every year since then, always nokias until a few months ago when i baulked and got an iphone.

Dubfella

DWCommuter wrote: »

This was my first mobile circa 1995. A Maxon. It was about 9 inches long and 3 inches wide. I was uber cool.:D

mate if im not mistaken they were only a tenner on a bill to rope everyone onto the network?

Dubfella

I'm currently collecting as many retro mobile phones as I can, here's some of my collection









Enjoy

I've about 300 so far

foxinsox

Dubfella wrote: »

mate if im not mistaken they were only a tenner on a bill to rope everyone onto the network?

£4.99

I sold gazillions of these back in the day.

All 088 analog phones.

Each one had to have it's number programmed into it manually, with a paperclip! I kid you not!

Dubfella

And a pic of a few more

Dubfella

foxinsox wrote: »

€4.99

I sold gazillions of these back in the day.

All 088 analog phones.

Each one had to have it's number programmed into it manually, with a paperclip! I kid you not!

brilliant, i'd love to get my hands on one....

ps i dont think the euro was invented back then haha

Dubfella

Jordan 191 wrote: »

Ericsson T10 missing it's front flap which went over the keypad and it's missing it's ariel.



On the top left of the phone it has a light which flashed on and off which is also known as a breathing light.

do u still have that? ive spares...

Dubfella

Muirgheal wrote: »

I read this thread last night, and then discovered these while pulling out my suitcase in the garage....

[img][/img]
BILD1505 by Muirgheal, on Flickr

NEC Model No. MP5B2B2 circa 1997
Mitsubishi FZ-852A from 1989 :eek:

Asked the auld lad WTF he's hanging on to these for and he reckons they'll be worth money some day?!? Chargers and boxes are there too.

20 euro offered

foxinsox

Dubfella wrote: »

brilliant, i'd love to get my hands on one....

ps i dont think the euro was invented back then haha

Oops! I changed it now.. thanks.

Great collection you have there.

I reckon that red Nokia 2110 is mine!

Dubfella

foxinsox wrote: »

Oops! I changed it now.. thanks.

Great collection you have there.

I reckon that red Nokia 2110 is mine!

Haha, that's only a few of what I've got, I'm setting up a display, ill post more pics when it's done...

stoneill

I've only just replaced my 3210 - eventually the battery would last about 5 hrs after charging and it would cut out 20 sec into a call.
But it was grand.

Hank Schrader

1998

Dubfella

Hank Schrader wrote: »

1998

Had one in my hand two days ago haha