remember your first phone???

aaronbyrne1991

My brother asked me had I got bluetooth on my 1st phone i goes no i had to make my own polyphonic ring tones he looked at me as if i had 2 heads




does anybody remember their 1st phone

g0g

Have a feeling mine was the M3188 or a similar phone. Whatever one AIB were offering in the 1998 student deal for college starters. I was the first person I knew to send a text message in 98/99! :pac: (yes I've no doubt texts existed long before that but no one I knew had seen them before!).

GreenWolfe

I didn't get a mobile phone until 2006 iirc. It was a Motorola V975.

Lardy

Phillips Diga was my first, followed by a Motorola Star-Tac!

http://www.byemobile.com/bigimages/Philips/Diga/1.jpg

http://chunk.ie/media/2012/07/Motorola-StarTac-672x480.jpeg

Francie Barrett

I had a StarTac as well, they were the business until the Nokia "Matrix" phones came out

Lardy

I had a few Ericsson's after the StarTac, then became a Nokia mong for a few years!

Mint Sauce

One of these back in 2000. Free when opened my AIB student account.



Still have at home somewhere.

KoolKid

Mine was NEC 9a

This was the original brick...

blastman

Panasonic J Series phone, circa 1994 on the 088 network :eek:

Not my photo, but this is what it looks like:

Dan_Solo

I remember years ago a friend had a Nokia and the battery died so they couldn't even get their phone numbers off it. It turned out the battery was exactly the same size as 4 x AA batteries wrapped in a bit of plastic... which is how I got it to turn on again and get the info off!

Man on Fire

irish-stew wrote: »

One of these back in 2000. Free when opened my AIB student account.



Still have at home somewhere.

HA thats a blast from the past my first phone too... can still here my message tone

snaps

I had the Motorola dynatac. Huge brick phone you used to see on Miami vice etc. Was on Vodafone UK then cellnet in the late 80's.

saralou2011

Nokia 3210! I miss snake! hours of fun!:)

Dan_Solo

dixiedan wrote: »

This is a Nokia 3330 which I had about 12 years ago. Came across it again about 6 month ago. Battery was obviously dead , so ordered one online. I also managed to unlock it using a code I got online for free.

Nokia 3310/3330. Absolutely LEGENDARY phone.

hfallada

My dads nokia 6310i. Still use it on a night out if im walking home and dont care if I got robbed.

Used it in oxygen for 4 days and still had half a charge

Nyum Nyum

Ericsson A1018 - Horrible thing, hated it.

Zaph

Work gave me a Siemens C25 for a while so I could be contactable when disaster struck at Y2K.



After I gave it back I had no interest in getting a phone of my own so it was a couple of years before I eventually got a Nokia 3210.

billy2012

I had a nokia 5110 when I was about 11 and I thought I was the man!!

jordainius

Great little phone this! I miss flip phones, and Ericsson, and the little blinking green light that was standard on Ericssons. Not exactly packed with features but it was a good solid and stylish phone for its time.

Jimmy Garlic

Motorola 201. I knew I had it in my pocket anyway.

Rascasse

My first mobile was my when my Dad gave me his company phone, a 'BT Amber', in 1996 as he never used it.

The first phone I bought myself was a 'People's Phone PP800' in early 1997. Really compact for the time.

wardy2

My 1st phone I'd also remember that the text messages were free to send on eircell network

unkel

Zaph wrote: »

Work gave me a Siemens C25 for a while so I could be contactable when disaster struck at Y2K.

Ditto! Customers insisted I got a mobile phone in '99 so they demanded my boss to get me one. I didn't really want it

Not a bad phone the C25 in its day. I manually programmed a ringtone into it (tubular bells) :cool:

Jackobyte

My first two phones had both been my parents beforehand.

First was a Motorola V50 I think. Was a slick phone and looked damn cool.


Followed up by a Siemens SL45i.


Damn, getting nostalgic now. Also, working V50's seem to sell for quite a lot on ebay due to the fact they were branded as BMW phones and were the only phones to dock in some BMW M model at the time.

EDIT: Just reading up on it there, the Siemens was the first mobile phone with memory expansion and an MP3 player, and was also the first phone to have a Java virtual machine. I'm sorry I handed it into one of those phone collections in school now, especially since there are people offering €100 for them online.

biko

Dafuq, that's what I had too! Motorola followed by a SL45i, great phone had it ages!
Actually I had the Motorola Flare


I also had Nokia 6150, which was brilliant

ardmacha

Great little phone this! I miss flip phones, and Ericsson, and the little blinking green light that was standard on Ericssons. Not exactly packed with features but it was a good solid and stylish phone for its time.

You needed its big brother.

pawrick

manually typing out each note to a new ringtone on the Nokia 3210 - first phone I bought myself, still have it here somewhere

but my favourite one was the 7200 flip phone - textile cover on it was great for soaking up spilt beer

Darius.Tr

Siemens A35 as far as I can remember.

N64

Shows my age here, but I think I got this around 6th class in primary school

Chavways

hfallada wrote: »

My dads nokia 6310i. Still use it on a night out if im walking home and dont care if I got robbed.

Used it in oxygen for 4 days and still had half a charge

The 6310's were unbreakable.My dad dropped his into a container of used engine oil and it still worked perfectly. The battery used to last him 10 days. They don't make them like they used to.

Darius.Tr

Chavways wrote: »

The 6310's were unbreakable.My dad dropped his into a container of used engine oil and it still worked perfectly. The battery used to last him 10 days. They don't make them like they used to.

All of those older phones that I remember where indestructible, and batteries used to last up to 2 weeks

Jamey_29

Jamey_29

cookie1977

Darius.Tr wrote: »

All of those older phones that I remember where indestructible, and batteries used to last up to 2 weeks

It's easy to last 2 weeks when all you can do is make/receive calls/sms and you've a monochrom 1-2 inch screen.

My first phone was a siemens S4:

flazio

Ericsson GF768. Got on Eircell RTG in 1999. Back then you could receive SMS but you couldn't send on RTG. To this day I still have the same phone number.

bizmark

some old alcatel thing with a 1-2 line green lcd screen before the days of even snake .....i feel old


that thing

meoklmrk91

One of the greats a Nokia 3210.

Eric Cartman

Nokia 9110 , got it 2nd hand in 2000-2001 still possibly one of the greatest phones Ive ever used , upgraded to a 9210i after . Ive never learned to use t9/keypad texting because Ive always had a keyboard.

quad_red

An indestructible great for a time of great drunkenness and debauchery. Survived temporary immersion in a toilet. Being dropped countless times. Finally succumbed when I crashed my bike. Had a 5110 shaped grove in my ribcage for a few days after

ablelocks

the Phillips Fizz, with an extendale aerial. on the old Eircell 088 network in 1996. Signed up on a 12 month contract and got a free portable TV and i think 3 months rent free. Still have the same number, well it's 087 now.

Heroditas

My first one was an NEC DB500 - got it free in the Carphone Warehouse on a contract with Eircell back in late 1999. what a heap of junk, after a few months it barely held its charge for a day!

azezil

Never saw the need for a mobile phone but then my mate insisted and bought me this:

Back in the days when the sim card could only store 11msgs ;P

Lex_Diamonds

C35i on Eircell! Not a bad wee phone...

flazio

Lex_Diamonds wrote: »

C35i on Eircell! Not a bad wee phone...

I went through the entire Siemens C range on Eircell/Vodafone (C35 - C65) always a great phone for those adamant they weren't joining the Nokia brigade.

K.Flyer

Now I feel old, in the mid eighties this was my first phone... The Almighty Brick, the Motorola 8000.
If I remember correctly, it cost 80 pence /min to make a call and 50 pence/ min to receive a call.
Tiny screen with very basic display functions, no such thing as texting back then. GSM came later, we started on 088 analog system. And the original phone number is still in use today!!

KoolKid

Ahh Remember 088 and the arrogance of Eircell , Wait 24 to 48 hours for a new connection. Supply references & some one to go guarantor on your bill.
Pay a connection fee and a deposit.
Don't like it??? Go elsewhere.... :rolleyes:
Back then if the reception was bad you just tilt your head the other way...
How did we survive...

byte

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

One of the greats a Nokia 3210.

Yep, my first too. It's still at my mother's house and was still working the last time it was tried. I even had the gall to change the case to a bright yellow Jordan F1 case... ugh!

wmpdd3

All the phones in this thread gave me ire when I worked with Eircell in the late nineties. It was great having a new phone every few months but half of the phones in each consignment were duds.

My first phone was a Philips Savvy,



also worked my way through the Siemens phones and settled on a S35,

loved that phone. hated Ericsson phones.

D Chief

My kids (oldest is 9 so they don't know life without mobile phones) asked me about my first mobile phone and I've just spent half an hour searching the net trying to get a picture of it. Of course I couldn't remember the name of it or even the make. Turns out it was a Phillips Savvy (pic in post immediately above). I won it in an eircell competition in summer 2000. It was the cheapest phone in the eircell Ready To Go range. Unbelievable how basic it was in comparison to today's technology, but I stuck with it for a couple of years.

This video will give you an idea of how small the display was (had to scroll and scroll to read a 160 char text message) and the sound of it: Phillips Savvy Signal Tones

There are a few more videos.

Ah, nostalgia.

cocoman

I had one of these bad boys.
It was one of those Ready to Go things. I think it cost £99.
Bought it in late 97. No texts, games, calender, etc.
The sim card was built into the phone and the battery was about half the size of the phone.
Those were the days

_Godot_

First was a nokia 3310. Loved Space Impact on that thing. Went through the wash more than once and survived.