Your Mobile phone History

I thought the D500 was a fantastic phone at the time.

 

The Nokia 3210 was a quality phone. I also had the D500, but I thought that was ok too. Might do my 'history' tonight on my laptop.

 

Christ on a bike, this is a sad feckin thread.

 

Can't remember them all, first one was a Nokia Ringo, best one was the Samsung D600 (don't know why but I loved it), currently got an iPhone 4S and a Blackberry 9300.

 

A Ericsson GA628 in 1996 was my first phone. None of my mates had one so l had nobody to call, only a kid in college that was from Brum had a mobile phone and it was too expensive to call him. Reyt waste of money but l looked cool, well l thought l did, must have looked a reyt lovely person. It once went off in the bar at the Metrodome before a game and l had to pass it around so everyone could have a look at it.

 

The kid from Birmingham?

Bostin!!

 

Yet you keep posting in it. Thanks for your contribution, now **** off.

 

Did you reply via your phone?

 

Nokia 3310 (complete with Snake!)
Some dodgy Samsung flip-phone - looked quite cool.
An LG something or other that was apparently the lightest phone ever made at the time.
Currently have a Blackberry.

Love contributing to sad threads

 

Polyphonic ring tones!

When you used to use your phone to actually make calla.


Those were the days.

 

Motorola M3788 - 1998. Pocket/housebrick sized depending on your perspective. Large antenna made no difference to reception but gave you the choice of having it point out of your pocket as a carry handle for thieves or pointing into your pocket, causing severe scrotal bruising. Or, as I eventually realised, unscrewing it and throwing it away.

NEC DB2000 - circa 2000. Smallest, slimmest phone I could afford. Result? Fell out of my pocket and wound up left on the driver's seat of my car one night. Woke up next morning to a smashed driver's window with dents in surrounding panel and no phone. Had a courtesy car for two days whilst mine was in for repair. Returned it with a smashed driver's window and no radio. Welcome to Wombwell.

Nokia 3210 - The reason I started buying Nokia Phones - saw my brother's. Ergonomic design, smooth and intuitive interface, class act all the way. I had to have one and duly splashed out. Would've kept it forever but colour screens came out and turned my head.

Nokia 7250 - The reason I stopped buying Nokia phones. Ergonomic design, smooth and intuitive interface, falls to bits on a monthly basis. Could never get it repaired under warranty - they always claimed I'd dropped it or it was water damage. It wasn't. It was just *****. But it had a colour screen.

Sony Ericsson K750i - Music, flash photography, slick operating system and expandable memory via card slot. Same hardware as the W800 but the latter had better OS. However, unofficial software upgrades came out which I flashed onto it to get W800 OS. Cool phone and still works - it's my spare to this day if my main phone goes belly up - although the joystick has been temperamental for a long time

Samsung D900 - Decided against the SE K800i because I didn't want that poxy joystick thing again. Bought a D900 instead. Then sold it on ebay after 2 weeks because the software was so clunky and unintuitive I just gave up. Pants.

Sony Ericsson K800i - See K750i above - very similar phone but bigger screen and further refined OS. Not my spare phone only because it's not unlocked but still works. Best camera I've ever had on a phone with proper xenon flash and everything. Only 3.2 megapixels but better a clear 3.2MP shot than a 5MP dog turd, as my next phone taught me.

Nokia 5800 - I had said 'never again' to Nokia. This time I mean it. Abysmal, unreliable, no hardware keyboard and had a touchscreen you could only reliably operate with a stylus. Makes reading a text a two-handed job and typing a reply a feat of concentration and dexterity. Crap camera which took dark, grainy, blurry shots. Minimum operating temp 8 Celsius, meaning it shut itself down on cold days. W T actual F?

Orange San Francisco - Needs no introduction to cheapskates and nerds. Dirt cheap Android phone with presentable specs but killed by Orange's customised OS. You could only use Google Play over 3G not WiFi and it wasn't included in your data allowance. WiFi or inclusive data meant using the Orange App Market instead, with fewer apps and higher prices. Fortunately, unofficial software versions you could easily swap and change between quickly surfaced. Running a newer, plain-vanilla version of Android this phone was amazing for not a lot of dosh. Until the power button collapsed and it stopped working. Oh, and the camera wasn't great.

Orange San Francisco 2 - drafted in as replacement but community support nowhere near the same as the old OSF. Everyone was still messing with the original until the Huawei G300 came out ad raised the sub £100 bar again. Build quality not as good either. Gave it to the wife who is rather more careful with these things. Still her phone now.

Huawei G300 - Won it from an Android fanzine. Was a review sample and they held a facebook comp to post your best photo taken an Android mobile and the one with the most likes after 30 days won. That was me. Hopeless on moving subjects but the OSF 2 took wicked still shots! A rather nice shot of Cusworth Hall secured a shiny new handset. Anyway G300 very satisfactory again, once community software had been installed instead of Vodafone-branded/bloated OS. Recently developed an intermittent screen fault so...

??? - 2014, what's it to be?