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Just for fun/ Which was ur 1st mobile?

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the good old 3330, they dont make them like that anymore.
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phuketrichard wrote: ↑Sun Sep 10, 2023 12:27 pm Image
My very first one was a Samsung 3GSM in 2005.Imodel E340, I paid 2,200 baht in Bangkok.
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I don't remember but it was one of these types. I think it was Ericson, with a pully-outey aerial. I later learned that apparently, the aerials weren't attached to anything inside and did nothing. They were only there because when mobile phones first started to become popular, people didn't trust phones without an aerial, so fearing a loss of sales, manufacturers put dummy ones in.
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I remember racking up a six hundred pound bill in a month.
Most of the calls were made when I was outside people's houses telling them Im outside and coming in....lol what a cunt...
One good thing about that phone was, you could use it for self defensive as well. It probably weighed over a couple of kilos.
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beaker wrote: ↑Sun Sep 10, 2023 7:06 pm Image
I had one of those in my car. My first mobile was a DynaTac, cost me $2000 USD in 198?
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I started in 93-94 with a fixed phone from Motorola in my truck, it didnt work in Spain but in most european countries it did. Cheapest option that time was a german sim-card. Invoices came in monthly between 500 and 1000 euros. Later i had a Siemens mobile and around 97 i moved to Nokia, had probably 20 of them and still have one !! The 5210 shock-proof was the best ever. I moved over to a Xiaomi-smartphone 2 years ago because of the Thais: they wanted to install a tracking-app while in Phuket during Sandbox-covid programme !! What ofcourse didnt work on my small Nokia 3310 !!
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Nokia 5110.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_5110
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Nokia 3110

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Username Taken wrote: ↑Sun Sep 10, 2023 1:32 pm This was my first. In 1992, Hitachi CR-D300. Very sleek in comparison with what had been available in previous years.

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looks very like a rebadged Nokia
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