Very first mobile/cell you owned

We've had threads in the past about our current phone, but what about our very first mobile/cell phone?

I got my first phone (Nokia 3650) in year 8 or close to, it was given to me from a family friend and it was considered one of the high-end phones of the generation. Quickly it became outdated and later sold it for a $20



The battery in this thing would last for weeks without charge, was a great device and never failed me.

 

My first phone was a Motorola V3i, Still an excellent looking phone even compared to today's smartphones I think

 

Siemens E10D, I still have it.

 

In the mid to late 90s I had a Alcatel-One (Cant remember the model) it was as big as a brick, had a useless removable button cover that was just a piece of plastic, that covered the number keys, two line LCD dot matrix screen with a orange backlight, a phone book that could hold a 100 names and numbers, and its main feature was that it came with a special battery adapter and you could run the phone off of 4x AAA Batteries.

It was a relatively new model as you could send and receive SMSes with it.

It cost me R560 ($62 but the rand was much stronger back then,so aprox $186) and I had to save up for 6 months of my pocket money and work money to buy it, I got R25 pocket money every month,that I spent on air time, it was well over R3.50 per minute to call, and 75c for a SMS.

Regardless the battery actually was pretty good and lasted a week without replacing, and the phone made decent calls and had generally good quality signal as it had a collapsible aerial that you could pull out in case of low reception :/

I cant find the model anywhere, but GSM arena has its updated model: http://www.gsmarena.com/alcatel_ot_easy-34.php

Had it for about 3-4 years and upgraded to a Nokia 3310, best phone ever, even did a blue led mod to it and bought tuns of covers.

 

Well my dad had this thing



You could actually hurt people with this beast.

My own first mobile was a Nokia 3330 with WAP Still in semi working condition.

 

I had some black brick in 1997 that didn't even have a back lit screen! It was total shite with reception too. I think it was on the Orange network.

I had a colour screen phone though in 2000 which was also tinny. Needless to say it was Japanese. Before smart phones, Japanese phones kicked the arse of every western phone out there for size, quality, and spec. Then came the smart phone and the tables were turned.

 

I actually liked it

 

Ngage was my first "smartphone" did a lot of homebrew on it, and the fact that it could multitask made it epic for me...

 

I had some fun times with some SMS/GG emulators as well

BTW Looking for some banners to be done?

 

I remember the N-Gage when it was first released. Quickly disappeared though, all that engineering for nothing :/

 

Ahhh the N-Gage i have both models of it ^^ does have some good games on it my first phone was this crappy thing

 

Those phones were awesome on BT cellnet with an additional chip installed

(Protip, do not store the users credit balance on an eeprom inside the phone)

 

My first phone was a Nokia 3210 in around 1999.
I had an N-Gage at one point too, it really sucked for talking but it was cool to have a Symbian phone and play emulators and stuff on it when most people were on Nokia greenscreens. (disregarding the fact that Symbian has always sucked ass in every way, and people only used it because it was the only widespread smartphone OS)

 

3210 was like 1999's iPhone, was oh so popular.

 

Thats because you could type in ringtones

 

Type in ringtones, meh, you got a serial data cable and downloaded packs of ringtones, and logos for your phone, man those were the days...

Edit just remembered on my 3310 it had the data connections on the back of the battery,so what I ended up doing was using a 5110 data cable I modded, with some prongs, and powered the phone from a bench power supply, very dangerous but man was I the envy of every one with my custom logos and ringtones, allso sim unlocked a few of them with the same cable, but they blocked it in later FWs :/

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nokia_2110.JPG
this

was quite good but after this i bought myself a motorola startac which was plain awesome.

 

You could buy custom cables that had a battery slot and then filled the entire battery compartment and did power + data.


You also should have just used a 6110/6130/6150 and a normal fbus/mbus cable and send the ringtones/logos via SMS

3210's unlocking was blocked later on too, but you could just short out a chip while unlocking to bypass it.
see here:
http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f131/problem-nokia-5110-a-437/#post1243

I used to work repairing phones and stuff for one of my first jobs in that time (98/99/00)

 

No wonder why you know so much about what you do.

 

I have done a bit of everything it seems.

Phone repair, apprentice electrician, networking (cabling etc), IT generalist