First mobile phone

Kimono-Girl · 01-03-2011 09:53AM

the 3210! loved that phone, but then again i was 13, i loved every gadget i had at that stage.

my partner still has his one, i should really charge it up

Vicxas · 01-03-2011 09:53AM

Nokia 3210 too, with the changeable covers.... ah memories

bronte · 01-03-2011 09:59AM

It was a nokia 5110. Think I was about 15.
If you threw it at someone's head it'd probably knock them out.
Those things were tough as nails.

Vicxas · 01-03-2011 10:01AM

bronte wrote: »

It was a nokia 5110. Think I was about 15.
If you threw it at someone's head it'd probably knock them out.
Those things were tough as nails.

I actually miss when you could drop your phone down the stairs by mistake and itd still be the same. now if you look at a phone cock eyed it throws a fit.

ElectraX · 01-03-2011 10:06AM

1996/1997 and it was a Sony one very similar to this:D

http://www.retrobrick.com/marsbar.html

_feedback_ · 01-03-2011 10:07AM

It's amazing how the memories come flooding back by looking at photos of phones!

callaway92 wrote: »

Nokia 3210, and I'm sure that's the same for many people here!

The 3210 was my second phone. First was this Motorola - same colour too!

bronte · 01-03-2011 10:11AM

Vicxas wrote: »

I actually miss when you could drop your phone down the stairs by mistake and itd still be the same. now if you look at a phone cock eyed it throws a fit.

I know!

God forbid you get caught in the rain with one now.
I don't remember water making much difference to the phones of yore!

dubtom · 01-03-2011 10:13AM

ElectraX wrote: »

1996/1997 and it was a Sony one very similar to this:D

http://www.retrobrick.com/marsbar.html

I had that one too, but mine had a leather case so was obviously superior to yours:cool:
:pac:
http://www.vintagemobilephones.com/sony%20ericsson.html

They were so big I developed a lob sided walk when it was in my pocket.

bronte · 01-03-2011 10:24AM

This was my mum's first phone

http://www.tmn.nu/blog/wp-content/422_1.jpg

A philips diga that was on eircell.
What a brick that yoke was! Text messages had to scroll across the screen!

Shulgin · 01-03-2011 10:26AM

The Real B-man wrote: »

Siemens C10 12yrs ago now time flys!

http://www.gsmarena.com/siemens_c10-84.php

C10 back in early '99

It was a great little phone.
http://kokeshnet.com/wordpress/wp-content/mobilc10.jpg

Korvanica · 01-03-2011 10:26AM

Mine was the Sony CMD-J70.. It had this side wheel that you click in, and everything was done with it..

bnt · 01-03-2011 10:28AM

I had a Nokia 2140 in the UK back in the mid 90s. Pretty tough, lasted for years, even after the antenna tip fell off. I eventually got a Motorola that was half the size, and regretted it, since it was half as tough. I did get a fancy HTC Windows Mobile phone in 2006, wore out the keyboard, and have since gone back to a cheap Alcatel flip phone on PAYG.

ElectraX · 01-03-2011 10:30AM

dubtom wrote: »

I had that one too, but mine had a leather case so was obviously superior to yours:cool:

Very fancy!:D I remember I was in 5th year in school and none of my friends had mobiles yet, I only had it cause my mum was into gadgets and I got her cast off phones when she was updating. Think it just lay at the bottom of my school bag most of the time:)

Vinny-Chase · 01-03-2011 10:30AM

I had the Motorola Ready To Go on Eircell 088. It was the first pay as you go phone as far as I can remember. Had a retractable "aerial". It was a beast of a yolk! The credit for it used to be like a scratch card.

Next I got a Nokia 5110 which could text, but no one else had a phone that could text so it was a bit redundant for a while

Minstrel27 · 01-03-2011 10:30AM

Siemens C10. Happy days.

Many times I was asked where do you put the credit in. Simpler times.

Run_to_da_hills · 01-03-2011 10:36AM

The Panasonic GD90 series were the business when they came out, very small in their day,however I found the Nokia series more user friendly, Had two of them. For some reason Panasonic left the market.

endabob1 · 01-03-2011 11:02AM

I had a Peoples phone branded phone in the UK in 1995, giant thing which I unfortunately can't track down a picture of, but I carried it around in a bag!

That was followed by one of these baby's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_5160
which was a classic, virtually unbreakable no matter how drunk you were

that was followed by one of these
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_3210
Which was the best phone I've ever had, I used it as a back up last year and it's still going strong

TPD · 01-03-2011 11:02AM

Alcatel OT 311

Came with a free CD player in Woolworths that Christmas, and I was in need(ish) of both.

Dyr · 01-03-2011 11:06AM

Motorola Startac, a device blessed above all by hollywood directors, presumably due to its flippiness

Ledger · 01-03-2011 11:10AM

Nokia 3210 all the way lads! best phone I ever had!

kuro2k · 01-03-2011 11:14AM

1996 - Nokia 1610

The heat from it would burn your ear off !!!!

seamus · 01-03-2011 11:14AM

Vinny-Chase wrote: »

I had the Motorola Ready To Go on Eircell 088. It was the first pay as you go phone as far as I can remember. Had a retractable "aerial". It was a beast of a yolk!

I got one of these on 087 in early 2000. Savage big yoke, I can't find a picture of one online, it's like they never existed

. Though I think it may still be in my parent's house.

I remember it cost me £79 including £20 credit from a shop where the owner later turned out to be a big drug dealer, using the shop to launder his cash.

This was my second phone I bought about a year later. Lasted forever, I liked that phone.

I made of point of not buying Nokias in the early days. Nokias were for sheep.

chakotha · 01-03-2011 11:19AM

An ericsson was my first - late 2000.

http://ca.ioffer.com/img/1104480000/_i/5006290/1.jpg

Celly Smunt · 01-03-2011 11:26AM

Minstrel27 wrote: »

Siemens C10. Happy days.

Many times I was asked where do you put the credit in. Simpler times.

I remember trying my hardest to play the ring tone and hold the aerial and phone in my hand like the guy in the add,hours of amusement

Allison91 · 01-03-2011 11:28AM

Nokia 3330, great phone so much better than the one I have now had so many cute covers for it too.

Royale with Cheese · 01-03-2011 11:31AM

In 10 years time there'll be people talking about how they had iphones when they were 13. Times have changed.

I had one of these myself about 10 years ago.

STIG83 · 01-03-2011 11:37AM

My first phone was the Ericsson Ga 318, it was my dad's old phone, bought the RTG sim pack in April 01, that was a brick of a phone!!
Then went on to a Nokia 3210, it only lasted a few weeks though as it just died

Then went onto a Philips something something. Have had Nokias after that including the 3510i,got it in 2003, i still have it, and they two of them in the house still, back then them phones were the big thing with the colour screen!!
Now im on an Iphone 3gs got it before Xmas jus gone.