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Just for fun/ Which was ur 1st mobile?

Poll ended at Tue Oct 10, 2023 12:27 pm

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Just for fun: which was ur 1st mobile?

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as stated:on a rainy sunday :-)
mine was 2
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Somewhere between 1 and 2, the Nokia 5*** something. Was a master of snake!
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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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Siemens 1999
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The item currently identifying as 1. is reminiscent of the phone when they started making them practically portable. Previously, the company I was working with had what was basically a smallish motorbike battery, with a handset cradle built into a handle.

As well as being a phone, it easily doubled as an offensive weapon and an affront to technology as we thought it should be.
To be truly portable, I think you could have a car attached as an option.
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None of the above....

I purchased my first Mobile Phone after Basic Training in '98, Alcatel one touch easy, was about the only affordable Mobile phone available in NZ back then (for a lowly paid soldier at least).

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friend of mine had one of these in Phuket I think in the late 80's
cost him like 50,000 baht

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I think it was a 1610 around 1997. It cost around £300 and I had to pay about £30 a month for the line and calls extra paid from my bank account directly. I had a pager before that which cost similar.
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My first mobile was the Siemens S4. Timewise I'd guess that would be between #1 and #2.
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