From Brick Phones to Phablets: 40 Years of Cell Phones

Chippy_Tea · Jul 10, 2016

This was my first analogue mobile phone from approximately 20 years ago, how things have changed.

Which phone was your first?

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GlentoranMark · Jul 10, 2016

I first bought a pager in 1998 then went to Israel following my team in the Champions League and everybody had a mobile. When I got back home I bought an Analogue Nokia, think this was my first phone:

I also got to choose my number an had a really handy number, something like 07850005000 but I gave away the phone to a mate along with the number. This was long before I realised that I could have kept the sim card/ number.

Chippy_Tea · Jul 10, 2016

Nokia, they were the favourite for donkeys years whatever happened to them.

brumbrew · Jul 10, 2016

Chippy_Tea said:
Nokia, they were the favourite for donkeys years whatever happened to them.

Went almost bust after trying to follow BlackBerry with the smart phone Windows based device.

Nokia actual began trading many moons back, there first product was toilet paper.

My first phone was a Philips savvy, given to me by my over bearing mother when I was 13 and got an early morning paper round. Do kids still do that?

Chippy_Tea · Jul 10, 2016

I remember a lad at work showing me he could edit pictures and zoom in and out on his Nokia phone, i was amazed, if you had told me then we would be viewing the internet (almost) anywhere i would have laughed.

We went from massive brick phones to tiny ones with small screens and now we have gone the other way again, i wonder what will come next.

I used to have a morning paper round we didn't know it at the time but the wages then would have got the shop owners in trouble for slave labour. :lol:

Chippy_Tea · Jul 10, 2016

This was (and still is) my favourite phone, this was in the days when you couldn't view the internet so big screens were not that important, i always liked the clam shell design and the screen on the outside was a great idea and it looked good. (you chose what to had showing on the outside screen, i had the clock)

BeerCat · Jul 10, 2016

At least those old phones didn't break when you dropped them unlike the last 4 so called smart phones i have owned. :)

brumbrew · Jul 10, 2016

Chippy_Tea said:
This was (and still is) my favourite phone, this was in the days when you couldn't view the internet so big screens were not that important, i always liked the clam shell design and the screen on the outside was a great idea and it looked good. (you chose what to have showing on the outside screen, i had the clock)

Was that the razor or however the marketing guys spelled it?

As for paper round, I got a pound a round, so I did one in the morning before school, came home ironed my school shirt, helped with my smaller siblings, then went to school, finished then did another. 14 quid a week! I was loaded!

Chippy_Tea · Jul 10, 2016

No it was the Samsung E720 i think the Razor was a lot thinner.

How dumb turning the torch on and shining it into the camera lens. :doh:

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Irish · Jul 11, 2016

My first mobile phone , I think I was 14 when I had it

alarmsparks · Jul 11, 2016

My existing Nokia phone used every day. Charge it only one a week.

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Chippy_Tea · Jul 11, 2016

I recently bought a Vodafone Smart Ultra 6 to replace my trusty Samsung which Mrs Tea persuaded me to give her when her phone broke, i didn't know Vodafone made their own phones and after watching many reviews i decided to buy it, it is a great phone (as the guy in the video says), the Samsung was more than twice the price and it had a smaller screen. (I have the dark grey version)

Vodafone Smart Ultra 6 review: the only thing that's budget about the Smart Ultra 6 is its price tag -

The Smart Ultra 6 is a Ã¯Â¿Â½ÃÂ£115 budget smartphone with a full HD 5.5in IPS display, an octa-core Snapdragon 615 chipset that boasts 13mp (rear facing) and 5mp (front facing) cameras and weighs only 159g.

Vodafone, like other carriers, has started to manufacture its own line of smartphones namely the Smart Ultra 6 and Smart Prime 6, two budget 4G smartphones that arenÃ¢â¬â¢t quite as budget as the price tag suggests. The Smart Ultra 6 is a 5.5in smartphone with an octa-core Snapdragon 615 chipset that boasts 13mp (rear facing) and 5mp (front facing) cameras and weighs only 159g.

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GlentoranMark · Jul 11, 2016

On modern phones, I own an Elephone P8000, bought from China for ÃÂ£120 and I would never go back to buying on the High Street again. The phone is a Samsung clone but with many added features. I get 2 days battery even though it's a 5.5" HD screen. I bought my Son a Cubot X1 at XMas last year and he's well chuffed with it. It was a sub ÃÂ£50 phone but the specs beat anything under ÃÂ£100 on the UK High Street. I've now bought many things from China, even just today a Bluetooth Headset arrived that cost me a whopping ÃÂ£4. The headset is brilliant, good sound and really loud, it even has phone functions although I bought it to work with a tablet.

Leon103 · Jul 11, 2016

Chippy_Tea said:
This was (and still is) my favourite phone, this was in the days when you couldn't view the internet so big screens were not that important, i always liked the clam shell design and the screen on the outside was a great idea and it looked good. (you chose what to had showing on the outside screen, i had the clock)

I loved that phone. I had it but decided to sell it for the latest model but ended up going back to it. Mine was black

Leon103 · Jul 11, 2016

Irish said:
My first mobile phone , I think I was 14 when I had it

My first mobile was like this. The aerial was extendable.

Chippy_Tea · Jul 11, 2016

Leon103 said:
My first mobile was like this. The aerial was extendable.

You had to pull the aerial out on the motorola phone in the first post.

Godsdog · Jul 11, 2016

Philips savvy was my first one followed by a Nokia 3310 round about the turn of the century I think
Currently use a Motorola moto G

Dutto · Jul 11, 2016

Living in the Grampian Mountains meant that I couldn't get a signal until as late as 2001 and by that time the "brick" phones had been consigned to history.

In the early days of mobile phones I sat on a train opposite some prat who was shouting at his "brick" for about fifteen minutes before sticking it into his briefcase.

The friend I was travelling with asked "Do you have a mobile phone?" to which I replied (loud enough for the man opposite to hear) "I don't need one. I have a secretary." :thumb: :thumb:

Funnily enough, the man opposite didn't need to use his phone for the rest of the journey! :whistle: :whistle:

Even now, all I have is a PAYG iPhone. :thumb::thumb:

Graz · Jul 12, 2016

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