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What was the first mobile phone you owned?

Sony Ericsson t230i

The camera was a separate attachment, something I'm sort of expecting to make a comeback now the backs of phones are starting to look like a close up of an insect' eye.
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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.

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You have a euro coin and a yankee quarter?
You smooth international bitch dippy.
If I could take photos, I'd put up two old tin cans with a bit of string, and an old thruppeny bit.
*****...female canine.
 
rob666 said:
You have a euro coin and a yankee quarter?
You smooth international ***** dippy.
If I could take photos, I'd put up two old tin cans with a bit of string, and an old thruppeny bit.
*****...female canine.
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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
 
Something by Sendo, basically a knock off version of the Nokia 3210. Bought in 2004.

It's still my dad's mobile phone!
 
One of the early nokias, before that I used to carry between 20-50p incase of emergency and I had to use a telephone box
 
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nokia 7600 with a 0.3 megapixel cam. Saw one on eBay just for £150!! I’m sure I’ve still got mine somewhere
 
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:
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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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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.

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This 'thing' in 1999 whilst at college. The Philips 'Savvy'. There was a kid on work experience at my place yesterday. I'd already been working there for 2 years before he was born. Getting old now.
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I can remember the 8210 coming out and everyone wanting it because it was so small and modern. I was a bit reluctant to even bother with mobile phones at all at the start (bit of a luddite at times) which is why I started off at the cheapo or cheaper end of the market.
 
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