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[Shirleyr]

Why do folk laugh at my phone, last week I dropped it in the car park at the local shop and had to ask a young man to go on his hands and knees to retrive it from under my car and when he saw it he didn't half laugh. I told him it was 25 years old, older than me he said. He said in his lifetime he'd had 6 phones, each one better than the last one. I didn't ask how much he'd spent on all six. I top mine with £10 when I get a message from Vodafone. I know it doesn't take a photo but it takes phone calls and sends texts, what more do you need.

 

[Nod]

My MiL still has what many regard as the best mobile phone ever made - a Nokia 3310. Was my wife's then mine, now the MiL's. It has had a replacement battery but only one.

 

[dejongj]

I think the 6310i was the best non smart phone. Nothing wrong with it. I actually laugh quietly when I see so many people with those devices now and know it will cost a fair chunk without there being an actual need. Great marketing trick. But hey each to their own choices.

Hopefully it doesn't have a speaker either so you can't make apprentice style phone calls we all have to listen to.

 

[viv1969]

18 years old i think, rather than 25, but still a damn good phone, holding a charge for days.

 

[Nod]

Great marketing trick.

Wasn't it just!!! TBH, I'd still be happy with the old 3310 99% of the time but very occasionally use the smart features on my phone to pick up e-mails while out and about. Can't see it properly if I'm wearing my contacts these days so have to carry reading specs (or a monocle!) if I want to read anything on it.

 

[tijuana taxi]

My phone is a beaten up Nokia C1-01, makes calls and that is good enough for me, turned off most of the time and mainly for use in an emergency.

 

[ecoleman]

Nokia 6210 was the best Nokia phone IMHO. I only upgraded to an Android smartphone last year.

 

[Steep]

I still have nearly every phone I've bought right back to my first Siemens A55 which still works, or would if I could get a sim to fit it.

 

[the black fox]

I know how you feel Shirley ,I have a I.phone which is totally useless compared to my old Nokia .even thought about resurrecting it the other day .used to pay £10 top up when credit used up these days it's that much per month whether you use it or not .damned if you do and damned if you don't

 

[Llamaman]

My fave;

Dropped it at a gig - it got kicked several metres across the floor. Picked it up, popped the battery back in and it was fine.
It also had Tetris.
Awesome.

 

[neil_g]

Christ even my 80 year old grandad has a Samsung galaxy..

 

[Tori_T]

I still have nearly every phone I've bought right back to my first Siemens A55 which still works, or would if I could get a sim to fit it.

@Steep , have you seen these?

 

[rjbell]

My dad's first phone you had to carry around like a bag with a strap over your shoulder. Like something you see in Vietnam films.

 

[dejongj]

My dad's first phone you had to carry around like a bag with a strap over your shoulder. Like something you see in Vietnam films.

You make me feel older than I am now. The GM of the company I was working for wanted me to trial the luggage mobile phones. Big briefcase battery with a hand set on it. As it was a big American firm with a healthy expense account what better way than to hit the restaurants and bars in Utrecht down by the canals to sit eat drink watch the world go by and make phone calls. I got almost as much attention from the opposite sex as having a puppy with me. Was great

But we soon moved to the Nokia 2210 GSM bricks when the new network came out. Much more secure communication.

 

[Shirleyr]

I used to go birding with a friend who has an iphone 6 and half the reason we don't go birding together is the stupid phone, this guy was on the phone all day, texting or reciving texts, checking for texts, ringing his mates to say about something and nothing. Even texting and reading texts whilst driving. I used to say one day the police will see you or you'll end up killing us both, taking driving glasses off to read a very unimportant text. He is retired so no need for all that. We'd be up high somewhere and he was disgusted when there was no signal. I think someone somewhere said that if you need to call 999 that number can be used anywhere, I'm not sure about that but its why I carry my phone with me when birding alone, you just never know.

 

[Steep]

@Steep , have you seen these?

Yes thanks, actually use one in a different phone but the major problem with the likes of the Nokia/Siemens phones is no internet!

 

[Tori_T]

...but the major problem with the likes of the Nokia/Siemens phones is no internet!

Actually, they did have internet.
Most of the Siemens phones of that era had WAP 1.x browsers built in, and also V32 modems you could connect to a computer serial port for full HTML dial-up browsing.

 

[dejongj]

Actually, they did have internet.
Most of the Siemens phones of that era had WAP 1.x browsers built in, and also V32 modems you could connect to a computer serial port for full HTML dial-up browsing.

Exactly and I was able to check my email.

 

[LongLensPhotography]

It is not long until they kill off 2G masts altogether?!

 

[nilagin]

You make me feel older than I am now. The GM of the company I was working for wanted me to trial the luggage mobile phones. Big briefcase battery with a hand set on it. As it was a big American firm with a healthy expense account what better way than to hit the restaurants and bars in Utrecht down by the canals to sit eat drink watch the world go by and make phone calls. I got almost as much attention from the opposite sex as having a puppy with me. Was great

I can remember such mobile phones, must have been around 1985, I don't recall any women being interested in men with such phones, more a case of everyone laughing at them.

 

[dejongj]

I can remember such mobile phones, must have been around 1985, I don't recall any women being interested in men with such phones, more a case of everyone laughing at them.

Different cultures. In the mid 80s there was no cafe/wine bar culture to speak off in the UK. Very different on the continent. Great ice breaker it was. The rest was naturally my open and great personality combined with adonis liking good looks

 

[neil_g]

I used to go birding with a friend who has an iphone 6 and half the reason we don't go birding together is the stupid phone, this guy was on the phone all day, texting or reciving texts, checking for texts, ringing his mates to say about something and nothing. Even texting and reading texts whilst driving. I used to say one day the police will see you or you'll end up killing us both, taking driving glasses off to read a very unimportant text. He is retired so no need for all that. We'd be up high somewhere and he was disgusted when there was no signal. I think someone somewhere said that if you need to call 999 that number can be used anywhere, I'm not sure about that but its why I carry my phone with me when birding alone, you just never know.

Yes, the that all sounds like the phones fault..

 

[Nod]

Different cultures. In the mid 80s there was no cafe/wine bar culture to speak off in the UK. Very different on the continent. Great ice breaker it was. The rest was naturally my open and great personality combined with adonis liking good looks

must have been at least 30 years ago, JP!!!

 

[viv1969]

must have been at least 30 years ago, JP!!!

Mid 80's WAS 30 years ago.

 

[Nawty]

Nokia 6210 was the best Nokia phone IMHO.

This.

If all you want is a phone that makes calls and can send text messages this is the thing for you.

However, most people nowadays don't make calls or send text messages (I rarely do either), it's still called a phone but really it isn't.

 

[LCS]

I remember the Sony T28 - my first one!

 

[nilagin]

Different cultures. In the mid 80s there was no cafe/wine bar culture to speak off in the UK. Very different on the continent. Great ice breaker it was. The rest was naturally my open and great personality combined with adonis liking good looks

What, with all the Yuppies around? I beg to differ.

 

[dejongj]

must have been at least 30 years ago, JP!!!

Mid 80's WAS 30 years ago.

Ok for me it was early nineties then

What, with all the Yuppies around? I beg to differ.

Perhaps there were 5 places in the City of London, but even mid-nineties when I came to England it was still a rarity, and I was living in Central London. Heck even today it is still not up to that level, lots of people standing in the street with a pint but not quite the same as sitting down, being waited on and watch the world go by.

 

[nilagin]

Ok for me it was early nineties then



Perhaps there were 5 places in the City of London, but even mid-nineties when I came to England it was still a rarity, and I was living in Central London. Heck even today it is still not up to that level, lots of people standing in the street with a pint but not quite the same as sitting down, being waited on and watch the world go by.

That would be because the era of Wine Bars and Cocktail Bars would have died off by then, The majority of women you would likely have impressed with your mobile phone in the mid 80's would have been hookers. I live around 25 miles outside of Central London, we had Cafes and Wine Bars back in the 80's too, currently that is about all we now have apart from the takeaways, estate agents and banks.

 

[viv1969]

Ok for me it was early nineties then

Those briefcase battery phones were definitely eighties.
I had my first phone (Motorola somethingorother) in 1994, and it wasn't that massive...pull out antenna and pointless half flippy plastic bit covering the number keys.

And before that were those none-case "brick" sized phones without the big cases

 

[nilagin]

Those briefcase battery phones were definitely eighties.
I had my first phone (Motorola somethingorother) in 1994, and it wasn't that massive...pull out antenna and pointless half flippy plastic bit covering the number keys.

And before that were those none-case "brick" sized phones without the big cases

Utrecht and the rest of the Continent, whilst obviously up to a level as far as the street café and wine bar is concerned, was lagging behind in terms of mobile phones.

 

[dejongj]

Utrecht and the rest of the Continent, whilst obviously up to a level as far as the street café and wine bar is concerned, was lagging behind in terms of mobile phones.

LOL yes we were indeed by the sounds of it

With hindsight we got out priorities right.

 

[ancient_mariner]

I'd have to agree with those saying there was no lack of wine bars around in the 70s and 80s in the UK, and competition was quite stiff.

As for phones, I loved the battery life of the candy-bar types, but appreciate the functionality of a smartphone more.

 

[dejongj]

I'd have to agree with those saying there was no lack of wine bars around in the 70s and 80s in the UK, and competition was quite stiff.

As for phones, I loved the battery life of the candy-bar types, but appreciate the functionality of a smartphone more.

Well I happily stand corrected. Strange how you then had a cafe culture that disappeared. I love sitting outside watching the world go by.

Was there good food as well?

 

[neil_g]

As for phones, I loved the battery life of the candy-bar types,

Maybe you just need a better smart phone?

 

[ancient_mariner]

Was there good food as well?

I believe that took a little longer.

 

[ancient_mariner]

Maybe you just need a better smart phone?

My RAZRi still does 3-4 days with occasional use (did 5 days between charges in Spain last summer, where it wasn't having to continually hunt for signal) but I miss 10-14 days between plugging in.

 

[nilagin]

Well I happily stand corrected. Strange how you then had a cafe culture that disappeared. I love sitting outside watching the world go by.

Fads change all the time. Hopefully the fad for the likes of Starbucks and Costa Coffee etc., will die off with all the sad gits hugging a cup of coffee as if their lives really depend on it.

 

[viv1969]

Fads change all the time. Hopefully the fad for the likes of Starbucks and Costa Coffee etc., will die off with all the sad gits hugging a cup of coffee as if their lives really depend on it.

I like Starbucks.
I don't sit hugging my coffee as if my life depends on it.
I'm certainly not sorry they don't serve the kind of slop you seem to survive on.
If you don't like the places, don't use them, it's quite simple.
No need to be quite such a d*** about it.

 

[dejongj]

Fads change all the time. Hopefully the fad for the likes of Starbucks and Costa Coffee etc., will die off with all the sad gits hugging a cup of coffee as if their lives really depend on it.

LOL that is me. Although I prefer Starbucks or the independent Italian and Portugese cafes in London.