Posted by voda_jon
hello everyone i was just clearin a cupboard out and found some old fones... in suprisingly good nick... an i was told i could keep em from work as well!!! YAY!
Whats the oldest phone you got? And include pics if u can... I'll start things with my Peoples Phone 800 (PP800).
This phone was released on THE PEOPLES PHONE network (which became Vodafone) a long long time ago... I cant remember exact dates but its bloody old... It only makes calls and thats it! no numbers to save, no sms and only 5 tones to choose from...
heres a pic of the box...
And the box contents... (complete with everything in excellent condition!!!)
And finally the phone in all its glory!
SO COME ON PEOPLE HOW OLD IS YOUR OLDEST PHONE... MINES ABOUT 10YRS OLD I THINK...
Posted by Miss UK
My mother gave me a siemens c35 its what 3 or 4yrs old im using it for work till my otha phones fixed :-)
Posted by Residentevil
Oldest phone I got is a P900 (9mo) old.
Posted by Sammy_boy
Does it still work?
By the looks of it even before they became Vodafone they were still into their branding (the People's Phone sticker on the handset)
Posted by voda_jon
lol. yeh it works.. it comes on does it peoples phone bit but doesnt connect as its an analogue phone... i have just purchased a Motorola 3220 off ebay for the pricely sum of £45 now that works and was the first digital mobile in the uk!!! i gonna use that one once i get it in the post...
Posted by Merovingian
an A1018s... thnx @tranquil
Posted by govigov
Didnt we have a thread callled, "what was your first phone" or something?
Posted by ThreeX
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Yes, but that´s actually different.. Say for the sake of argument my first phone was a T610 and i later bought a GH888 just for the hell of it, then the T610 would be first, but the triple-eight oldest, right?
Oh, and my oldest is the GH198 from 1996.
Posted by masseur
well, from one of those other threads... I have my very first NEC 9B - (thats the aussie version as it was called 9A in UK) from 1986
of course, that was analogue so in regards to still working phones
the Nokia 2110 was my first GSM phone from about 1996
though the one I have no longer has the wood effect fascia so I'll post a fresh pic at the weekend
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Posted by Debu
Well my oldest phone was a nokia 5110, back in 1998. Still have the box and a couple of expess-ons, the phone was sooo beyond repair, i sold it for Rs.1500 (around £17) to a junk dealer.
Posted by BobaFett
/// hotline ( what else? ;-) )
take a look here:
http://www.samlaren.org/telefon/
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Posted by voda_jon
oooh the NEC i got one jus like tha as well....
LOOK!
Posted by steve5424
Oldest phone I have is my Siemens C25 from about 6/7 years ago. Although my Dad has one of Nokias really old models at home does not even take a SIM card
Posted by gerardsalvador
Nokia 5110. I'll post a pic tonite. I'm at the Australian Open Tenns! WOO!
Posted by CostaRicaSteve
We had one of the original mobile phones in the car, where you had to call the mobile operator to get them to connect the number. You had a call sign and this was well before the days of voice mail.
Either you were in the car or not.
Ring tones: Horn or no horn (very distracting in traffic when you for got to turn it off!)
Funniest story! This was a corded phone and it got caught in the steering wheel on a cord and cut it from the base leaving it hanging from the steering column!
Posted by limbot
Masseur
I had the NEC 9B to. I'm sure it's in a box somewhere. Think I went through about 6 of those damned whippy aerials though
Posted by fannypad
I've still got a couple of Nokia 2146s (One2One GSM1800 version of the 2110i) tucked away god knows where. Good phones for their time.
And a Motorola Flare that my mum used to own.
Oldest has to be a Nokia that I can't even remember the name of, it was a triple digit number. Still lurking in a box somewhere in my house.
Posted by jplacson
Oldest one I have left is an Ericsson T28s (that's about 6-7 years old). Sold my GH688 a long time ago already.
Posted by Aivar
The first mobile I got was Ericsson GA 628. It was in January 1998. I got that phone from my employer and after ca 1,5 years I gave it back as I bought a T18s.
But in March 2002 I bought just for fun Ericsson GH 174. It cost ca 0,07 euros. The phone still works
I don't have picture about them, but from web I found GH 174 and GA 628.
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Posted by aff
i had a old panasonic made in 1996
Posted by Carbonester
I have a Analogue Nokia 104 for when i was about 5 (ten years ago) and i have a nec Fido that has just developed a problem with its battery.
Edit:
Here is a pic of the two next to My t191 (without an antenna) that is as tall as my k700i
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I also have a Alcatel One touch max which cost $2 (two) when we bought it
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Posted by johnmcl7
Wow! Some really old phones here!
When I was younger and not very flush with money I sold my phones to pay for the next one, so my earliest phone is the Nokia 3210, which at the time was a fantastic upgrade for me from the Phillips C12.
John
Posted by djkizlive
Found these monsters under my bed! Aargh! I've never seen so much dust attached to a phone before (Obviously it was removed to take the photos!)
As shocking as it may seem, they all still worked!
Posted by Leks
Posted by Ing. FijoK
I have Ericsson GA 628 but I haven t pic of this one.
Posted by JukurenvengeX5
My oldest phone was an erricsson one...ERRICSSON
Posted by masterp
i still have a panasonic gd 90 , but im trying to sell it , as the battery is very weak , standby 1 day , making a calll 1 hour or so
Posted by Sammy_boy
Just got a consignment of phones that includes an Alcatel 'Airtel' - it' massive! Don't know if it works or not as no charger, but I suspect the batteries dead as it's a ni-cad one
Will post a picture when I'm a bit less tired!
Posted by Bammers
I got one of the motorolas that Leks has got and a ericsson 628! Still using my T28! M8 of mine has one of those old "Bricks" you see yuppies in the early 80s walking around with! He's dropped it out his window several times, surprised he hasnt killed someone!
Posted by Bammers
actually looking more closely, think mine is older than that! Has a solid, thick flip on it! Do I have the oldest?
Posted by Si_V80
My Motorola startac, was working last time i charged it up...but iv lost the charger
Posted by The_Nashy
First MobileEver
Second
in between the following photo of phones of mine that are around the house, I had a Nokia 6610 which I sold about 2 weeks ago, ///T65, SE T300.
Posted by Si_V80
Them savvy's are indestructable!! I had me and my mate jumping and throwing it out of windows and it still wouldnt break!
Posted by axxxr
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I used to have the same phone....I can't believe you still have yours!..I threw mine out in the rubbish years ago...I believe this was one of the first PAYG phones in the u.k.
It Was a surprisingly good phone for its time...Even with the terrible battery life and minimal features..It was incredibly thin and looked class.
Posted by Bammers
Anyone remember the old Sony that was nicknamed the "mars bar"? Had a partial slide down cover on the keys? How old is that??
Posted by fannypad
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Haha, you know that!
I used to have one of them on BT Cellnet PAYG, was called the C12. Tescos were selling them for £20 at the time
The thing was totally unbreakable. Was always slinging it all over the place, stamping on the bastard etc. Fook knows where it's at now but no doubt still in perfect working order.
By the way, did you ever have a dodgy one which had free credit? My mate used to sell moody C12s on BT Cellnet PAYG that reset to £50 credit every time you switched them off and on. Didn't believe it till I bought one
Everyone had one of them phones, and at the time you could top them up with only a card number and expiry date, so everyone was going round high streets picking up store receipts and whacking on £50 credit with some poor mug's card... BT Cellnet were hopeless.
Posted by lordpercy
lol found my old phones and took a pic of them for an article http://www.lordpercy.com/Classic_Mobiles.htm enjoy
Posted by emanuelj
My first phone was an Ericsson Ga628
Posted by lenn24
My first phone was an Siemens C35i 4 years ago
Posted by Bammers
Jeez, I work for the local authority and we've just upgraded to a Nokia from those C35s!!!! How about that for progress!
Posted by *Jojo*
Looks like I've seen a thread very similar to this one in the past
Well, anyway, here are my share . . .
A Nokia 636 (1995) - still with me complete with box and all !
An Ericsson T10 . . .
Posted by twincam77
I still have a lunar gray T68m (not upgraded to i) just kept in its box.
Posted by sib4o
I had one very very old alcatel... people called it the grandfather of the alcatels.... Someone stole my new nokia and i had to be for a week or 2 with this alcatel till i have money for a new one.... and someone stole it too.... I just couldn't believe.... it was like a brick even bigger when you put out the antena
Posted by YEOPK
@voda_jon
I had one of those too. It was my 1st phone when I started my 1st job.
Posted by JK
My first was a Motorola something cant even remember... the housekeeper stole it!!
It used a sim card that was the size of a credit card!!!!
Posted by Bammers
I remember those sims the size of credit cards, not THAT old!!!!
Check out this website :
http://www.retrofone.com
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Posted by batesie
Great company, got a R310 from them.
Posted by knight4led
I had a nokia 2190 back in the day. Same phone as this:
http://www.retrofone.com/product_info.php?products_id=108
quality phone for the time.
I will try to find a pic of the Motorola my family shared circa 1993. It looked like a purse and it was huge. The handset was wired into the bag thing and looked like a normal phone when you picked it up.
Posted by knight4led
Ok, here is an early motorola flip phone that my family shared for a while:
...and here is a Motorola bag phone that used to perform amazingly well...
Posted by Bammers
I had the flip phone, was my first mobile!! Hardly used it as the calls were so expensive and I wasn't working at the time!! That other phone is a monster!!
My old boss had one the phones that looked like a car battery (and weighed as much) with a handset on the top!! Anyone got any pics of those?