What was you 1st cell phone? Post Image

[alfa147x]

Nokia 6620

We have some old ass people here!

 

[DesiPower]

We have some old ass people here!

:biggrin:

 

[arch113]

Similar to this:

http://larryhendrick.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/motorola-bag-phone.jpg

 

[dabuddha]

Some brick phone I used on ATT. My 2nd phone was this:

 

[zinfamous]

c. 1984:

 

[zinfamous]

then, I upgraded to the awesome Wall Street era Michael Douglass brick cell phone. Reception was only possible on beaches, though

 

[HN]

 

[SKORPI0]

D: Late 80's. Reception was a joke then, good thing company paid for it.

 

[ravana]

Same model, but in Blue.

Still have the same #

 

[Sumguy]

I was 17 I think.

Still have the same version.

 

[MotF Bane]

2005-current.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

 

[Patt]

Haven't owned one yet My wife has had some old crappy things, but as for myself ... not quite yet.

 

[waggy]

Some brick phone I used on ATT. My 2nd phone was this:

yeap i think thats what i had. been so many years though not sure.

 

[lxskllr]

I had some kind of phone for work that I hard wired into the truck. That was early 90s sometime, and I don't remember the model. This was the first carried phone I had...

 

[zinfamous]

as that your brother on the other line?

:sneaky:

 

[Gibson486]

t28world

 

[GuitarDaddy]

then, I upgraded to the awesome Wall Street era Michael Douglass brick cell phone. Reception was only possible on beaches, though

This, except in black. Still have it in a drawer

 

[shortylickens]

Or something like that.

Ditto.
Mine was a tracfone.

My first real cell phone (if you can call it that) with a good carrier was a Moto C333, and it was shit.

It was only on AT&T, and this was back when AT&T wireless had shitty service and phones, and they eventually sold out to Cingular cuz they couldnt make a profit.
I cant imagine why the dude in the pic had his in 2008. It was junk on opening day and would have been unacceptable in that year.
Everything that can be wrong about a cell phone was exemplified in that sucker. Poor power management led to batteries draining in half an hour and dying after 6 months. Overheating of course. Shit electronics, especially in the transceiver, so dropped calls were the norm. Tiny keys, even for a guy like me. The cool blue backlight was actually not bad, better then the Motorola V series which set their standard for quality but not aesthetics. But everything else was fail.
I stopped using it long before the contract gave out, and putzed around with other phones until I got the Nokia 3300.

It might look stupid, but it worked great. The color screen was pleasant and easy to view, and the menu system was very better than motorolas at the time, I loved having profiles. The full keypad was awesome for texting and even just entering contact info. Proper multimedia player. Good speaker and loudspeaker. Excellent transceiver. Strong battery. Easy to remove MMC and that complemented the music player nicely. Overall a win, even if it looked silly.

When that service ran out and AT&T stopped doing cellular, I went to Cingular with a Nokia 6230.

Solid build, all the same good quality features as the 3300. Made me believe that Nokia was really the best, especially for low-end and mid-grade phones.
Camera was acceptable but I really never cared about that. In fact I would have been happier if they'd take 50 bucks off the price and nix the camera.
Unfortunately when I got out of the Navy I didnt need a phone as often. And I stopped all service for a little while. Played around with tough phones on Boost for a bit, but that was expensive service at the time. They are better now.

 

[wheresmybacon]

This was my first phone too.

 

[Azurik]

Samsung SCH-3500 on SprintPCS.

This was back in 1999 or so when phones had a green backlight and all the text were matrix and black

 

[BoomerD]

Bag phone, 1990.

Yep. Not sure of the exact model, but it looked similar to this:

For a couple of years before that, my work truck had a 2-way radio that had mobile-phone capabilities. You'd call a special mobile operator and she put the call through. IIRC, it was close to $5.00/minute...so you used it sparingly.

 

[Deeko]

1. Panasonic 210

2. Nokia 8290

3. Ericsson T68m

4. Some crappy Siemens phone (don't remember the model)

5. Nokia 6610

6. Nokia [I forget, a T-Mobile feature phone with lights that flashed on the sides]

7. T-Mobile SDA

8. T-Mobile Dash

9. Blackberry Curve

10. Nokia N95

11. T-Mobile G1

12. HTC Touch Pro2

(continued below)

 

[Deeko]

13. Motorola Droid

14. HTC HD2

I left out a couple of phones that I bought, tried for 2 weeks, and returned (Palm Pre, Blackberry Tour, another Touch Pro2 on a different carrier)

 

[Tobolo]

Or something like that.

Me too. In fact I had three of those.