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What was the first mobile phone you owned?

Samsung GT-E1270.

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The Original & The Best​

Pretty sure I still have it in a drawer somewhere, and I’d put money on it still working as well.

Kids these days with their fancy colour screens will never know the joys of chasing a black, blocky line around a green-tinged background. I remember a schoolfriend upgrading to an Alcatel phone that not only had a colour display but could also take instant photographs and display them!!!



... OH MY GOD I’M OLD!
 
Erricson GA 318
What a beast.
Although it was the 'family' phone as cost dictated sharing back then rather than having one each.
 
I had a BT chargecard at one point so I could call back home from phone boxes without needing money as the costs were charged back to my parents phone bill.

Then I had the Bosch same as Matt, but in clear plastic not orange (although I was on the Orange network).

Followed by a Nokia 5110 with the removeable front shell, that was quite cool. Also Snake!

I then had the Nokia 7110 with the slide-down bit like in the Matrix.
 
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I had the Bosch 509 but as I recall, this Motorola was my first phone. The most frustrating 'feature' was when sending someone a text message in your 'Phonebook', you had to know their number ... there was no way to select them from your contacts. "Your phonebook is for phoning people" I can still hear the bloke tell me in Carphone Warehouse.
 
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Nokia 3210. Basically indestructible and could go a week on a single charge.

Kids who've grown up only on smart phones will never appreciate messaging people with a 160 character limit, a numeric keypad and no emojis :tearsofjoy::anguished::cry:. Also no conversation history, you had to go to sent items if you forgot what you'd asked. Oh and better delete those texts from your inbox because if you had more than about a dozen messages you won't receive any more.
 
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A time when 'txt spk' was essential because it cost 10p per text with minimal characters. I'd get a tenner a month off my mum to top it up but that was gone in a couple of days if I was trying to chat up a girl from school!

Or paying £5 for a ringtone advertised on the music channels.
 
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A time when 'txt spk' was essential because it cost 10p per text with minimal characters. I'd get a tenner a month off my mum to top it up but that was gone in a couple of days if I was trying to chat up a girl from school!

Or paying £5 for a ringtone advertised on the music channels.
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haha those were the days!

A year or so after I remember those websites that told you which keys to press to manually create ringtone such as the The Simpsons & thinking how ground breaking it was.

This Samsung flip from around 2004 was my absolute favourite.

 
My god this a trip down memory lane.
The Philip digi on BTcellnet was my second mobile phone.

@RoyJess i remember the old emergency 10p for the phone box.

I don't know if this fits. However i had a MIDLAND 75-719B hand held Citizens band radio as a precursor to a mobile phone.
Then it was jointed by a tristar 747 when i started driving.



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Once the thinnest phone at 11mm! To think nowadays you can get TV's thinner...
 
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