Retro Phone

[93hero]

Can we talk about Nazis now?

 

[sylus]

Yup, that Motorola I mentioned:-

That definately has a screen.

but a red led screen can be nothing other than retro surely?

i think they were called startacs?

I think the nazis used these

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-RETRO-M ... in_0&hash=

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Retro-M ... 3f1693c93b

 

[93hero]

Startacs were the first 'clamshell' design. The 9800 is just a flip cover over the keys.

 

[Gruff]

I got my 1st "mobile" phone in October 1990 when i joined Rank Xerox as a service engineer i think it was a Panasonic & was bigger than a house brick

I once left it on the roof of my Montego and it was still there when i realised 3 miles down the road

 

[David B]

Can we talk about Nazis now?

Wrong forum. Try this one:

http://www.thehistorychannelclub.com/forums.aspx



David

 

[jimo746]

I actuallybought a Nokia 3310 the other year, used it for a few months as my backup/out cycling phone. Signal reception was very good and battery life excellent ("moderns" seem to need charging ip every day!).
I must look for it actually as it's around the house somewhere.

 

[silverclaws]

I got my first mobile phone in '91 I think and it was one of these;

http://www.mobilegazette.com/motorola-4500x-gallery.htm

Not a bad phone at all and despite it's size it was mobile.

Then came a BT something or other, analogue with an extending aerial and that thing used to get hot in use, lousy battery life on cellnet

Then a Nokia 3410, quite a stylish phone, loved the blobby buttons. ( still got it and it's working)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Nokia_3410.jpg

Then a Nokia 6310 because I bought an ex fleet focus estate and it had the phone kit in it, so a logical choice and a good phone. ( still got that too and it works)

http://www.extragsm.com/images/phone/big/Nokia/6310/Nokia-6310-01.jpg

Then came a Sony Ericsson P900 Smart phone, impressive but limited, but with the stylus I could draw on the screen and it had writing recognition, it was my only access to internet at one stage, expensive access, but access. ( and yes, still got this, still working, but can't be bothered with it)

http://www.hiwtc.com/photo/products/6/01/39/13926.jpg

Then came my current phone, the best yet, a Samsung sgh e270, truly pocketable and what a standby time, although not sure where it is at the moment, somewhere around my flat and gone flat so I can't phone to find it. There is also a c330 around somewhere too.


So I have gone from what was reckoned to by 19% of the population being cell phone users in the early nineties to now where I am now where I can quite easily manage without a cell phone, as the samsung has been awol for about two weeks now.[/url]

 

[silverclaws]

I give up, do yourself a favour, don't buy a macbook pro, they are beset with problems.