What was the very first mobile phone you owned? Mine was a very early Sony model that had no screen and three lights (green, amber and red) to indicate signal strength. It was about the size of a cigarette packet and I can’t remember the model number at all. Oh those were the days…
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Alcatel HC500. It is so old (1996), that I cannot even find bigger photo on Google!
http://www.viii-lo.krakow.pl/bakx/muzeum/alcatel/alcatel_hc_500.jpg
And even it cannot send SMS, no caller identification, etc….
Mine was the Nokia Orange; I gave it to my dad when I went on to better phones, I found it a few years ago and compared it with the somewhat old 6310i I was using at the time. The Nokia Orange was *huge* especially with the extended battery pack required to keep it alive for more than two days.
The phone I had after that was the Sony Ericsson SH888, an awesome phone at the time, its magnesium alloy frame meant it had the strength of a tank but wasn’t too heavy.
I honestly can’t remember.
The Ericsson R320. It had a built in modem and infra red so I could connect to the Net with my Psion 5mx and send emails from anywhere!
I later moved to a Nokia 7110, which was just cool, and I could continue to use it with me Psion.
Nokia 8110 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_8110 – I loved it! Easily pocketable, SMS for the first time and good battery. I remember sending SMSs across the office to someone else with a mobile just for fun. Must have cost us a fortune! I also remember a real shock when I discovered I could send SMS to someone on another network as I’d thought it was only Orange – d’oh!
A Nokia circa 1998 vintage that I had when I started in this job that year. Can’t remember the model.
I got this thing from Currys in about 1998, it was an Ericsson phone, pay as you go, with a funny slim pull down front bit that revealed the keypad. It was quite small and chunky.
A Motorola Flip phone. Cant recall model number, but was high tech at time and seem to be very yuppy.
Nokia 101 analouge phone in 1993, see here http://www.retrobrick.com/nokia101.html followed by a number ot Moto flip phone (my first GSM phone around 1996).
A 1993 Sony ‘Mars Bar’: http://www.retrobrick.com/marsbar.html
When the whole “cloning” thing for analogue phones became an issue, I was due an upgrade and went to the GSM successor, which also had a pop-up earpiece. That was in 1994. At the time you couldn’t port your number across so I got a new number with that phone, and that’s the same phone number (with an added 7) that I have 16 years later!
Like Gavin, it was a Motorola Flip StarTac. It was quite small and very sexy for the time. I remember feeling I had truly arrived.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_StarTAC
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Siemens S25. First with a three colour screen and I used its modem over IR with my Psion 5mx.
I had a siemens S25 too; I still have it, but the button pad is flakey, otherwise I’d have given it away. I think it could manage about 10 distinct colours in good ambient lighting!!
Sony Ericsson Z200. Built like a tank, yet that still hasn’t prevented me from misplacing it.
I had the Motorola brick second generation – you know, the big one with the big whip antenna that was very much like a landline handset.
http://www.oaktreevintage.com/web_photos/Telephones/Brick_Phone_Motorola_American_89031DAUBA_F247.jpg
an Ericsson T10 which had a flip down section covering the keypad. Happy times
My first mobile phone was an Ericsson GF 337 and my network carrier has become rich !
Sony Z7 which was one of the best phones I ever had: http://www.retrobrick.com/sonyz7.html. I always liked the flip down cover-thing. Moved onto a Sony E Z600 after that in a lovely shade of lime for some reason…..