Your first mobile phone
Here is mine:
The Siemans C10, purchased in 1998 when I was 18 years of age. I can remember being at college at the time, and having to switch it off and hide it in my bag because the other lads would take the pi$$, asking "what the hell do you need a mobile phone for?" - only a few of us had one at the time.
It was on Vodafone Pay As you Go and was back in the days when, on buying a top-up, you had to choose whether to spend it on credit or 'days', or a combination of both.
The Siemans C10, purchased in 1998 when I was 18 years of age. I can remember being at college at the time, and having to switch it off and hide it in my bag because the other lads would take the pi$$, asking "what the hell do you need a mobile phone for?" - only a few of us had one at the time.
It was on Vodafone Pay As you Go and was back in the days when, on buying a top-up, you had to choose whether to spend it on credit or 'days', or a combination of both.
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This was my first mobile, probably from around '98/'99, can't remember exactly. It never broke down on me though, 'twas a trusty old brick! :-D
Not my photo
Anyone on here apart from me who HASN'T got one?
but in actual fact it was this lil beauty... (actual size?! :lol:)
The first time I ever used a telephone (it was in a call-box) was to call Crash magazine before it folded. I left them alone until the late 1990s. By 2000 I'd made about 10 phone calls (all Speccy relelated) and then bought my first ever phone; the one you see above. Texting was uber-fast. Never since have I been able to text so quickly, it was great. I've still got it, but it gets too hot to use.
Them were the days,
Pay As You Go =
Phone call: 2p per minute
Texts : Unlimited (free)
And that's it.
It was circa 1995, on the BT Cellnet network, at a time when you could choose between analogue or digital mobile phones. It had a whopping 8 hour standby time, and a battery you could beat whales to death with.
These days I've only got a Nokia 3120. I hardly use it, except to confirm meeting times with people or to let them know I'm going to be late etc. Pay as you go. I top up about ?5 every two months :)
Mine was on Orange (actually had the Orange logo underneath the screen), but yes I'm pretty sure it was the cheapest I could find at the time.
I had a pager before that, one of those that just gave you the number of the person trying to call you. I quite liked that, because if I didn't want to speak to said person I'd just say "sorry mate, couldn't find a payphone at the time"... :grin:
^^^^One of them^^^^
I remember being chuffed to bits with it. I got it for work as I was training to be an assistant manager and was working all over South London at the time, so it was hard for people to find me (but great for bunking off and going shopping) so I bought this baby on a ?15 a month contract. Pay as you go had only just come out and the phones were stupidly expensive, plus, any credit left over after 4 weeks was removed and you had to top up again!
I cancelled the contract after the first year and it was another 4 or 5 years before I got another phone (another Motorola)
Where's your technological cut off then?
Presumably you have a house phone and a TV. And you obviously have the internet. :-?
... and it was a...
Crapola of a phone !
:lol:
First phone I bought myself. Had a variety of bricks from work before that. I was involved in the manufacture of many of the PCB's for Ericsson, Nokia, and Alcatel phones during the 90's.
ericsson 237 I had back in '94, on Cellnet reception was aweful wher I lived in the north of Stoke-on-Trent but brilliant in the south something to do with the orientation of the transmitter, think the call plan was ?50 or ?75 a month depending on which you went for I think I was on the ?50
:D
Nowadays I use these:
Bytes:Chuntey - Spectrum tech blog.
All you could with it was make calls and text, it didn't have any internet access (i'm not sure that even existed in 1999).
Now, I have one of these, the Samsung Galaxy SII, and it's bloomin' lovely:
This is the closest pic I can find to what mine looked like, it was an Ericsson, but I can't remember the number code thingy for it? The handset looked pretty much identical to this one but the aeriel was different to this one, and looked like a shorter version of the aeriel from a Ericsson 337? The aerial wasn't solid either it was rubbery, which ultimately resulted in it's eventual demise.
Be honest, what does your life consist of? Me, either I'm at work, pub, home, asleep. Why do I (or you) NEED a mobile phone?
And no, I'm not on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter et al either.
What did we do without mobiles before, I hear you ask? Well, we bl**dy well booked things in advance.
Now all I get is "Hallo mate, I need a taxi...eh, whossat, I can't hear you...I'll SPEAK UP" when it is completely obvious that they are speaking in a noisy pub or nightclub. Only it isn't obvious to them because they are pissed up or a f***ing moron.
I don't have a land line so no 'house' phone. I don't have broadband but I have no data limit with my mobile contract. I use my iPhone to play music both using headphones and in using a dock in the flat. I use it as an alarm and as a calendar and a diary. So, yeah, it has it's uses for me.
For example, on a Sunday day time, on a photoshoot on location in a woodland. I don't drive and I need to organise a taxi or pickup from a roadside a little walk from where I am. I can't be certain of the time. A mobile phone is invaluable then.
Let's say you're on holiday abroad and there's some sort of family emergency back home. Without a mobile, there's no guarantee that someone would be able to get in contact with you. It's happened to me.
Not everyone needs a mobile phone, but to question the need for anyone to have one is just plain short-sighted of you.
still think it was one of the coolest phones ever!
Yet you use the internet? What did you do before the internet? You used books, encylopedia, etc. And you bloody well booked things in advance
Used a pager :lol:
Incredibly useful. Oh, and I also use it as a phone!
Woah! Back off there a minute. You can use them as phones??? I must have a look at mine and see if I can 'call' someone...
I had one of those, it was sh*te, I threw it against a wall and smashed it cos' it annoyed me so much :lol:
"Yet you use the internet? What did you do before the internet? You used books, encylopedia, etc. And you bloody well booked things in advance"
Hmmmm I appear to be getting slaughtered here. . .;-)