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Whittie
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21st Dec 08 at 18:20   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

1 of these...


Had two of these...


2 of these


1st camera phone


Then there was a sony Ericsson in between this one... it had a camera attachment



One of these...



[img]Then this one a few years ago...








Got two broken phones like this in the cupboard....





Current phone which doesnt work....




Missed loas of shit phones out... cant remember names
JM Curdy
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21st Dec 08 at 18:44   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

ive had 100 different phones easy couldnt even begin to list them
Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
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21st Dec 08 at 19:17   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Showing your age if you started with a colour screen

This one didn't even send texts.











Also have one of these that I did throw my SIM in a little ago. Cool phone and but it doesn't have Bluetooth so it don't work with my car kit. Otherwise I would be using it.



[Edited on 21-12-2008 by Ian]
Marc
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21st Dec 08 at 19:19   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by Ian
This one didn't even send texts.




My Dad had that, got it free with his Golf GTi Reception was rubbish so he threw it out!
eddiewhiteley
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i bet most people on here never had to arrange nights out etc, generally survive being 16/17/18 when no one had mobile phones, ringing mates houses only to be told by their mums or dads that they were out and trying to find everyone
Robbo
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amen eddie Nightmare!
Ian
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And you actually had to know peoples numbers.
Shell
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I can't remember the model numbers etc of all the phones I had, so many nokias looked the same! I've had far too many phones.
Ojc
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21st Dec 08 at 19:34   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

That thing there, second on the left



I had that, was awful and totally pointless at the time as nobody else had mobile phones.

I loved my Ericsson I had, the one where you could switch the hoop on the aerial and the keypad, being the silly sod I am I left it on the back of my moped and pulled away and it smashed to bits. Those were the days when text messages were free!
Laney
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All I remember about phones when I was at school is being annoyed that everyone else was getting well expensive ones on contracts their parents paid for and I had crap PAYG ones!
Carl
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quote:
Originally posted by Ian
And you actually had to know peoples numbers.


Not strictly true, you could consult the little book of numbers found in the draw near the phone, flick through the a-z without any luck until you had realised you had put them down as their nickname.

The joys, I was on about this the otherday at work. Having to walk around school and hope you bumped into the person you was looking for. Kids today, don't know they are born.
eddiewhiteley
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i left school in 1994 so i dont think anybody i know had a mobile then, i think the 1st mate of mine to get one was in 1995, i didnt get one until 1999 a massive motorola thing.

imagine a world without the internet and mobile phones, then being a fresh faced youth in that world ringing my girlfriend at the time up and always having to have a chat with her mum or dad 1st as i had to ring their house phone
Jay
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quote:
Originally posted by Ojc

I loved my Ericsson I had, the one where you could switch the hoop on the aerial and the keypad, being the silly sod I am I left it on the back of my moped and pulled away and it smashed to bits. Those were the days when text messages were free!


I had that and you could make ringtones up, get the keys for songs off the internet and make ringtones
Jay
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quote:
Originally posted by eddiewhiteley
i bet most people on here never had to arrange nights out etc, generally survive being 16/17/18 when no one had mobile phones, ringing mates houses only to be told by their mums or dads that they were out and trying to find everyone


Not so much nights out but I remember having to walk down to my mates house about 4 miles away, to knock on his door and be told hes in his dads his street didnt have house phones yet
pow
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21st Dec 08 at 20:30   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I've had a fair few.

My Dad had an analouge car phone back in the day
Tommy L
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21st Dec 08 at 20:39   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

First phone was a Sagem. No idea what it was called but was pointless having it as no one else had them and at the time i must of been 12/13

Then went onto a Nokia 3310



Then a Samsung A300



Nokia 8310 for a while



Nokia 7210



SE T300 that looked like a bar of soap



samsung D500



Samsung E900



SE K810



Current one - Samsung Omnia




The samsung phones have been the best out of the lot. I know i missed a few out though.
BlueCorsa
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21st Dec 08 at 20:48   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

My first phone from back in 1998:

Robbo
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i had that one bluey
Hammer
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I had the phone most folk had as their first when I was 21

I got knocked back from the dancing because the bouncer said I was going to use it as a chib
Robbo
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21st Dec 08 at 20:59   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Narration Ham?
Hammer
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Brick nokia....I had it....went to club....doorman said you're going to hit someone with that.....not allowed in. Goodnight, God bless.

Etc...
Bonney
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quote:
Originally posted by Hammer
Brick nokia....I had it....went to club....doorman said you're going to hit someone with that.....not allowed in. Goodnight, God bless.

Etc...




great story for the grandkids that, they'd never beleive it
Ben-B
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21st Dec 08 at 22:20   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

first - nokia 3310
got it when i was about ten and never used it TBH..

Nokia CPV C500 - got it when i was about 13 dads old phone, bag of toss.. soo complicated to use

motorola V300 - free off my aunt when i "accidently broke" my old phone, second best one ive had just no cam or bluetooth

K750i - brought it myself but it never worked

K850i - got it now on my first ever contract and its great, great cam, great music player, looks great

dont no what ill have next cause im on a 24 month contract
jezza
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21st Dec 08 at 22:21   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Good topic this

Started out with this BT Cellnet thing in my early teens, can't find a better pic.




Then moved to this, which I loved, nokia 6150..




Then the Nokia 7110, had a flashy spring loaded button cover and cool scroll wheel instead of up/down keys:




Then had a Sagem myx-5, first colour screen for me:




Sony Ericsson T610 (paid for with work experience money - year 10).. quite possibly my favourite phone I've ever had - ahead of it's time with bluetooth, no-one else had it for months! My first camera phone too.




Nokia 6230




Nokia 7610 - first dabble with Symbian os




Sony Ericsson w900i - a chunky mother of a phone, looked cool though.




Sony Ericsson k800i x2 (The first fell in a pint)




Nokia n95




My current: Nokia n78 - has all the best features of the n95 in a sexy smaller body - I like.



It's amazing/quite ridiculous how many phones I've been through and I'm only 20 Hoping to get a Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 or a Nokia n97 when my contract expires in April, but who knows.

UPDATE:

So after the n78 I moved onto the HTC Touch HD - before HTC were the massive force they are today:




Didn't really get along with that and luckily managed to get out of my contract after half a year. Allowing me to move onto... the Palm Pre! Loved this phone and would have stayed with it much longer if it wasn't for the shite build quality, wobbly as fook.




2 months after the Pre I switched to an Apple iPhone 3GS:




Followed just under a year later by the HTC Desire HD



[Edited on 31-01-2011 by jezza]
Robbo
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wudnt go for eithe rof them tbh

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