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  • JJ_Egan
    JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
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    Big lump over a grand bought from a guy in Stoke On Trent who turned out to be John Cauldwell ( Phones4you) .

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  • Alter_ego
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    2 tin cans, with a length of string between.
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  • jackieblack
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    My first mobile phone was purchased in 1998, I can't remember the model but it was a motorola and if the rechargeable battery ran flat you could pop in 4x AA batteries - brilliant!

    My second mobile phone was a Nokia 3330Still my current phone :o (partly because I can't get on with new phones but mainly because I only want to make calls and text and it's perfectly fine for those - I have a digital camera and a laptop for taking photos & accessing the internet :D)
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  • whitelabel
    whitelabel Posts: 2,217 Forumite
    edited 30 May 2011 at 12:11PM
    I won a competition when I was 16 i think in 1997 and it was for the uks first pay & go mobile

    Worth £200 and with calls at 50p per minute to landlines, 75p to mobiles, 10p per minute voicemail and without the ability to text ( for about 6-8 months i think) on One2One (now T-mobile)

    the Nortel M800 in green with extendible aerial

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    I had this a couple of years (only 2 people i knew had mobiles but I looked "cool" at school/ weekends if I could sneak it out as my parents wouldnt let me take it to school lol)

    followed by a siemens c35 on cellnet a few years later on contract when I returned to the uk after a gap year and started uni. The saleswoman treid to get me to get the latest phone every one had the nokia 3210 ! but didnt want one the same as everyone else. Had a good contour to fit in your pocket easily

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    I now rarely use a phone and have been diagnosed with a brain tumour... there is no concrete link to mobile usage ~(they were around before mobile phones) although its an ever linked thing on my "phone side" and suggestions that children have a greater exposure to their radiation... so please think carefully before getting young kids phones...who knows what the future holds. have a read of http://www.mobilewise.org/
  • Exemplar
    Exemplar Posts: 1,610 Forumite
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    Ha!! Just found my old T39 (sim free) and T28 (Orange) in a box in the loft!!! guess what.... they both still work!! Bonkers..
    'Just because its on the internet don't believe it 100%'. Abraham Lincoln.

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  • philnicandamy
    philnicandamy Posts: 15,685 Forumite
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    edited 30 May 2011 at 11:38AM
    Motorolla Star Tac (what WAS I thinking!!) :rotfl:

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  • Exemplar
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    AHEM... Star Tac.... It was a great phone!!
    'Just because its on the internet don't believe it 100%'. Abraham Lincoln.

    I have opinions, you have opinions. All of our opinions are valid whether they are based on fact or feeling. Respect other peoples opinions, stop forcing your opinions on other people and the world will be a happier place.
  • Mig1971
    Mig1971 Posts: 348 Forumite
    A BT Cellnet Philips Savvy

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    My Current phone is a Nokia 7373 (this week its started playing up think its near the end of its life :( )

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  • SailorSam
    SailorSam Posts: 22,754 Forumite
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    I read that the first person to make a call on a mobile was Ernie Wise.
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    What it may grow to in time, I know not what.

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  • philnicandamy
    philnicandamy Posts: 15,685 Forumite
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    alcot33uk wrote: »
    AHEM... Star Tac.... It was a great phone!!


    (sorry...its still early!!!) :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
    We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will
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