Mobile phones

[Chippy_Tea]

30 years old today (according to 5live)

Which phone was the first you owned or used.

Mine was a close to house brick size Motorola flip phone.

 

[Tess Tickle]

I had a house brick motorola too but not a flip one. I still had it when text messaging came in and it was really exciting! Got a nokia 3210 after that.

 

[tigertim]

Nokia 2146, sold by Orange as the "Nokia Orange 5.1". Outstanding phone and I can remember being really happy when you could finally send SMS messages between different networks, when not many people knew what an SMS message was! I got it circa September 1997 IIRC and still have the same phone number.

 

[DocAnna]

.... and still have the same phone number.

Crikey that's impressive, I changed my number a few years ago just to press reset on spam calls!
First mobile phone Nokia 6110 - incredibly robust and no worries about cracked glass front or back, was a bit bulky though.

Second mobile phone the lovable 3310, generally thought to be more robust but the colour swappable covers would sometimes crack and I replaced the rubber keys a few times, and the back battery cover could end up coming off a bit too easily after a few drops. All parts that could be easily replace though. I still think this is one of the best phones I've ever had.

The one I never had but really really would have liked was the motorola razr in 2004, I just wasn't cool enough (and didn't earn enough) to justify it though

 

[UKSkydiver]

Nortel M900 on One2one, back in 1996-97

I later 'upgraded' to Nokia 5110 and then 6110 and I definitely had a 6210

probably used any number of Nokias until I got an iPhone 4 in about 2007

 

[AnimatedGIF]

My first was Nokia 402 that I bought with my Christmas money.
The best phone I have ever owned was the next one I had, the Nokia 3310 - I loved it so much (until I lost it). If it weren't for convinience of smart phones, I'd happily go back to having one of these.