What was your first
22 April 2008, 12:28 PM
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My first mobile was back in 1984, expensive to buy and to run but a lot better than the carphones of the 70's when your 'phone call' was relayed through an operator and was often received the following day!
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22 April 2008, 02:14 PM
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motorola 5200 flip phone, before then upgrading to a motorola startac
After that it was an NEC G9, which had a proper funky ringtone like manic miner (was something like 4 polyphonic notes at once
), then the nokia range including the 2110i which imo started the mobile phone wars as it was the bomb!
After that it was an NEC G9, which had a proper funky ringtone like manic miner (was something like 4 polyphonic notes at once
), then the nokia range including the 2110i which imo started the mobile phone wars as it was the bomb!
22 April 2008, 06:55 PM
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LOL!
Oh yes, back in 1980/81 a chap i worked for had one of these. He was a photographer, had a BMW 320 (when they where quite rare) c/w this sort of phone and i remember him calling and asking to be put through.
Looked pretty cool back then.
22 April 2008, 07:37 PM
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Dunno what make it was, but it came in an aluminium attaché case, with an extending aerial, and a proper keypad for dialling, and a real handset, seem to remember it was from a trimfone. The "extended life" battery was a small motorcycle battery in a box, which had a cigarette lighter socket on it. You got about 40 minutes of talk-time with that attached. Then we got a Motorola transportable, that was a major upgrade
