Retro Phone

[Neil]

Slightly off topic, but amusing.
A friend of mine was waiting at a bus stop in broad daylight, but in a slightly dodgy part of North London. A large bloke, staggered across the road clutching his stomach and pleaded with him to ring an ambulance as he thought he had a burst appendix.

My mate pulled out his ancient knackered looking Nokia 6310 and started to dial for the ambulance. At which point the large bloke made a miracle recovery and said "oh for f@cks sake" and walked off.

That has made me laugh quite a bit this morning - thanks!

 

[93hero]

9110? Retro? thats not retro. 9000, that would be better but still not retro.

Nokia 101, that's retro, or a 232 at a push.

Pah.

Define 'retrophone'.

titter

 

[dirtjumper_dmr]

Define 'retrophone'.

That would be a good idea for a thread

 

[mountainbikerjohnnyb]

had many retro phones in my time, 9210i, 8210 one of my favourites was the nokia 7110 bought it from a mate when i was at school, love that phone

 

[93hero]

Oh my Lord... Retro? It's got a screen, how can it be retro? And its digital... how can a digital phone be retro?

Nope... Analogue phones with no screens, Sony CMR111.. now that's retro.

Can we set a cut off date for 'retrophones' please.

 

[mountainbikerjohnnyb]

Oh my Lord... Retro? It's got a screen, how can it be retro? And its digital... how can a digital phone be retro?

Nope... Analogue phones with no screens, Sony CMR111.. now that's retro.

Can we set a cut off date for 'retrophones' please.

I know it's not excatly retro but it was one of my first phones apart from the Panasonic gd35 and Nokia 3330

 

[Neil]

Oh my Lord... Retro? It's got a screen, how can it be retro? And its digital... how can a digital phone be retro?

Nope... Analogue phones with no screens, Sony CMR111.. now that's retro.

Yup, that Motorola I mentioned:-

 

[93hero]

Sorry, I'm just trolling. I worked in the industry for a long time and being all geeky about old phones is kind of my thing, I'm quite boring.

7110 is a great phone. Its generally referred to as 'the matrix' phone but it was actually the 8110 that was used in the film. The 8110 didn't have the spring loaded keypad cover of the 7110 but Nokia fitted one to the phone used on the film. One of the first phones with decent WAP capability aswell IIRC.

I had one for a while but woke up one morning after a particularly heavy night out and it had gone, I'll never know where!

 

[93hero]

Yup, that Motorola I mentioned:-

That definately has a screen.

 

[Neil]

Yup, that Motorola I mentioned:-

That definately has a screen.

Fawlty's law.