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What was the first mobile phone you owned?
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Dipper_Dave
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I had the Nokia 3210 then 3310. For some reason I still hold some affection for this 8210 I had afterwards. I think I have it in a draw but can't be certain that it still works or if I even have a charger for it. Texts, calls & Snake. All anyone needed in a phone, and the battery lasted a few days. Brilliant. It looks huge in the pasted picture but is actually really small, which is one of the things I loved about it. The size of phones has got ridiculous, whenever I see a youngster holding a phone in their hand whilst walking, I am never sure if its because they can't bear to put it away for a second, or because its too big to fit in their arse pocket. Probably both. I loved that phone.
Dipper_Dave
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Its called 'copy and paste', dinosaur! Just a pic I found online. Even you would be able to operate the early Nokias
Danny
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Once the thinnest phone at 11mm! To think nowadays you can get TV's thinner...
My second phone! After this corker:
Matt N
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Sorry to bump this 3 year old thread, but I just found the thread, and I was randomly reminiscing about the topic of old phones and devices with someone the other day, so it got me thinking about my first mobile phone.
Now I’m probably going to show my relative lack of age here, but I am still old enough that my first phone was not a smartphone! And like many in this thread, my initial phones were Nokias.
The first phone I ever had was a hand-me-down from my nan, which I got in about 2012 or so. I can’t remember the exact model, but it was a very basic black and silver Nokia with a number pad. Think of pretty much any Nokia phone from the mid to late 2000s and you get the idea!
The first phone I ever bought for myself, in 2013 when I was 10 years old, was the Nokia Asha 201:
It kind of looked like a BlackBerry, but had nowhere near as much functionality. It had a camera, though, and a proper keyboard for texting! Not to mention that it only cost £10 in Tesco…
It was pretty basic compared to today’s phones, in hindsight, but it served me very well for 3.5 years until I got my first smartphone in early 2017! One thing it was truly, truly brilliant for was battery life… I used it for 3.5 years and as someone who kept it off in their bag for relatively long periods of time at secondary school, I only remember charging it once or twice across that entire time period! I even think I may have lost the charger at some point, but it wasn’t a problem because of how well the phone held its charge…
I tried to repeat the same feat with my first smartphone and got badly stung…
Now I’m probably going to show my relative lack of age here, but I am still old enough that my first phone was not a smartphone! And like many in this thread, my initial phones were Nokias.
The first phone I ever had was a hand-me-down from my nan, which I got in about 2012 or so. I can’t remember the exact model, but it was a very basic black and silver Nokia with a number pad. Think of pretty much any Nokia phone from the mid to late 2000s and you get the idea!
The first phone I ever bought for myself, in 2013 when I was 10 years old, was the Nokia Asha 201:
It kind of looked like a BlackBerry, but had nowhere near as much functionality. It had a camera, though, and a proper keyboard for texting! Not to mention that it only cost £10 in Tesco…
It was pretty basic compared to today’s phones, in hindsight, but it served me very well for 3.5 years until I got my first smartphone in early 2017! One thing it was truly, truly brilliant for was battery life… I used it for 3.5 years and as someone who kept it off in their bag for relatively long periods of time at secondary school, I only remember charging it once or twice across that entire time period! I even think I may have lost the charger at some point, but it wasn’t a problem because of how well the phone held its charge…
I tried to repeat the same feat with my first smartphone and got badly stung…
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Shaggy_Dog_
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My first phone was a Motorola Graphite in 1998 on the One2One network. If I recall correctly it used a SIM card that was the size of an actual bank card.
