Does anyone have an older mobile phone than me?

sunflower27 · 16-07-2011 01:59PM #1

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 · 16-07-2011 02:02PM

I don't know, what age are you?

krudler · 16-07-2011 02:03PM

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 · 16-07-2011 02:04PM

Was just thinking someone would say that:p

sunflower27 · 16-07-2011 02:05PM

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 · 16-07-2011 02:05PM

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

mackeire · 16-07-2011 02:06PM

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

sunflower27 · 16-07-2011 02:08PM

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 · 16-07-2011 02:08PM

I have an iPhone

do i win ? :pac:

aphex™ · 16-07-2011 02:09PM

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 · 16-07-2011 02:10PM

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 · 16-07-2011 02:10PM

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 · 16-07-2011 02:15PM

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

hoodwinked · 16-07-2011 02:16PM

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

...do i win? :pac:

Skerries · 16-07-2011 02:19PM

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 · 16-07-2011 02:22PM

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 · 16-07-2011 02:22PM

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

Owen · 16-07-2011 02:23PM

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 · 16-07-2011 02:29PM

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 · 16-07-2011 02:31PM

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

sunflower27 · 16-07-2011 02:32PM

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 · 16-07-2011 02:32PM

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 · 16-07-2011 02:33PM

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 · 16-07-2011 02:36PM

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

sunflower27 · 16-07-2011 02:40PM

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 · 16-07-2011 02:43PM

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 · 16-07-2011 02:45PM

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

Needler · 16-07-2011 02:50PM

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 · 16-07-2011 02:51PM

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 · 16-07-2011 02:51PM

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 · 16-07-2011 02:57PM

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

Does anyone have an older mobile phone than me?

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