What was your very first mobile phone?

Jaxxy · 09-10-2014 11:57AM

indigo twist wrote: »

This was mine. A right dinosaur! Motorola L7089.

Wow, that brings back memories! I loved that phone, thought I was the bee's knees with it.

kjl · 09-10-2014 12:06PM

I've got you all beat,

The Nokia 101 on Eircell
http://www.cntr.salford.ac.uk/comms/resources/artefacts/mobile_phones/ETACS/Nokia_101.JPG

I got it in Christmas 1994 and my phone number was 088644152, I remember it used to cost £1 a min between 9am - 6pm then 20p a min after that.

This was about 2 years before ready to go and 3 years before esat

inforfun · 09-10-2014 12:07PM

Ericsson A1018 was the first one i bought myself.

First "mobile" is used was one that came with the job.
Should also have come with a to carry it around as it was basically a car battery with a handset attached. Bit like this

The Cool · 09-10-2014 12:08PM

I had a Siemens A55. I got it for Christmas 2003, when I was 14. At that stage all my friends had phones like the 3510i with colour and pictures, so my phone with its orange monochrome screen was like a brick in comparison, but I was still happy to get it as I was the last person I knew my age not to have one. Still have the same number.

DellyBelly · 09-10-2014 12:08PM

My first phone was an iphone3. Great phone for it's time but already very old fashioned now

endacl · 09-10-2014 12:11PM

Mitsubishi MT30. Never dropped a call. Battery lasted a week. Came with a free portable telly for my flat. Phones were phones in those days, I tells ya!

http://www.thibaultbarat.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Mitsubishi-MT30-1.jpg

akura · 09-10-2014 12:26PM

My first phone was a Nokia 3510i . I still have it in a box with my other old mobiles.

responsive · 09-10-2014 12:30PM

A2LUE42 wrote: »

I had the Nokia on the left :-)

Can't figure out what the first one I had was. Some Motorola that had a cradle to charge it in and was the size of a brick. Talk time on full battery was something like 90 minutes.

So did I. It was called a Ringo and it was analogue- phone number was 088 and you couldnt text. ah 1996.

BoJack Horseman · 09-10-2014 12:40PM

BDJW wrote: »

My first phone was this brick....

I think this was my first.

Can anyone confirm if this was the one Eircell sold on prepaid on their '088 pre-GSM network?

iDave · 09-10-2014 12:41PM

Siemens M35

M5 · 09-10-2014 12:41PM

Had an analog 088 Motorola that you could power with 4 AA batteries.

It had a massive 20 number phone book!!!!

Ruu · 09-10-2014 12:42PM

Motorola brick phone on Eircell RTG, Philips Sagem then a bunch of Nokia's.

GAAman · 09-10-2014 12:54PM

BDJW wrote: »

My first phone was this brick....

Same here, friends nicknamed it "Ready to fight" because if you hit someone with that, they weren't getting back up in a hurry!

:pac:

BoJack Horseman wrote: »

I think this was my first.

Can anyone confirm if this was the one Eircell sold on prepaid on their '088 pre-GSM network?

Yep it was 088 Ready to Go.

Quin_Dub · 09-10-2014 12:55PM

1st phone was a Sony CM-R11 in about 1995, followed quickly by a Nokia 1610.

The Sony was very "cool" for it's time , very Star-trek with the flip down mic , but the battery was shocking...It only last a few hours, and if I actually answered a phone on it the battery would die almost immediately

Had Nokia (like most people) for years after that - 1610 , 1611 , 6110 , 6110i , e50 , e51 , e61 before making the jump to Android phone.. Nexus 5 right now.

Bacchus · 09-10-2014 12:59PM

Nokia 3210 for me. Got it for Christmas and immediately started playing snake, set an alarm & flicked through the handful of ringtones/message beeps. Good times.

A2LUE42 · 09-10-2014 01:50PM

8-10 wrote: »

Phillips something or other. Brick of a phone, credit card-sized SIM card in the back. Think it was only 1 line of text so you would scroll to the right as you progressed writing a message.

Then came the Siemens C35, sexiest phone around in its day, remember the ad showing a lady's hand holding it between 2 fingers to show how small it was.

Ah here it is:

http://mobile.cdn.softpedia.com/phone-pics/Siemens-C35-1.jpg

Forgot about those. When I got a new phone that needed a smaller sim, they wanted to charge me £20 for a new card. Tech/customer support told me that by cutting the 'plastic' on the card, the sim wouldn't work. I borrowed a small sim and cut the card(this was before they had the ones that you could push the small sim out of the card) to match. Used it for years after.

responsive · 09-10-2014 02:50PM

I miss snake but I think mostly what I miss about those phones is they had real buttons. big plastic things like a remote control. Non of this haptic feedback crap.

qwertyabcd · 09-10-2014 03:06PM

Nokia 3210, I got it a few weeks before my 13th birthday as my mum got an upgrade, playing snake and 'composing' ringtone were my favourite things on the phone.

Racyjase · 09-10-2014 03:14PM

It was 1996/1997 and I had a motorolla (startac I think). It was one if the flippy ones with an aerial and I thought I was the dogs bollocks with it

Mayo Yid · 09-10-2014 03:14PM

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

1995 i got a Maxon, I still have it in a box in the Attic, The battery is bigger than my current phone

http://www.cntr.salford.ac.uk/comms/resources/artefacts/mobile_phones/ETACS/Maxon_EPC590E.JPG

Had one if them too, think it was about 95, used call it "the lunchbox"

etacs_mobiles.php

sunrise91 · 09-10-2014 03:18PM

Nokia 3310, I thought it was far superior to mam's 3210

Dublinflyer · 09-10-2014 03:19PM

the Motorola startac....I still have it at the bottom of a drawer somewhere.

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

DEFTLEFTHAND · 09-10-2014 03:20PM

3510i I think it was called, a chunky gold nokia with colour screen.

Nice looking device.

foggy_lad · 09-10-2014 03:30PM

Panasonic G450, looked like it was modelled on a bord na mona peat briquette.

http://www.flashgsm.ro/uploads/poza_mare/watermark/7231_panasonic-g450.jpg

I am pie · 09-10-2014 03:36PM

nokia 5110 in 1999. Got it from an IT company I started work as a graduate with.

Boscoirl · 09-10-2014 03:40PM

BrianJD wrote: »

Panasonic GD 450

http://www.compu-seite.de/handys/panasonic-g450-1997.jpg

Had this one, it was the "family mobile phone" whoever needed it would take it with them, think it was one of the first phones that vibrated.

the first phone that I owned was some Motorola WAP phone, it wasnt one of the cool ones, you couldnt just say the model number like 3310, people would look at you funny

foggy_lad · 09-10-2014 03:46PM

Boscoirl wrote: »

Had this one, it was the "family mobile phone" whoever needed it would take it with them, think it was one of the first phones that vibrated.

the first phone that I owned was some Motorola WAP phone, it wasnt one of the cool ones, you couldnt just say the model number like 3310, people would look at you funny

2nd phone was a Siemens s35i which I got free when meteor started up, brilliant phone, lasted for years and survived about 2000 texts a week:eek:

Darkglasses · 09-10-2014 03:58PM

Nokia 1610
Ericsson T10
Nokia 3210
Nokia 3410
Sagem My-V55
Nokia 1600
Nokia 6111?
Sony Ericsson W300
Nokia 2630
???
Samsung Ping Touch
Sony Xperia Tipo
Nokia 105
Motorola Moto G

Close one between the Ericsson T10 and my current Moto G for my favourite phone ever. Just pulled my 2630 out of the press for the first time in years, still amazed at how small it is!

ArielAtom · 09-10-2014 04:03PM

Nokia P-30 Brick.

Reventon93 · 09-10-2014 04:04PM

My first phone was an old 3510 I got from my sister for xmas when she got a new phone. And it was the black and white version too

Ended up loosing it for weeks soon after. Turned up in a friends garden still working after showers of rain. But the buttons were fuked!

What a phone though!

What was your very first mobile phone?

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