Can you remember your first mobile phone?

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  1. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    Was it one of these

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    My very first one was in my truck with a large battery pack that I had to take home and charge. Used to last about an hour on calls if I was lucky.

    My first personal was like number 3 it was off BT and came alongside my home phone contract. It was better but weighed a ton and was indestructible.
     
    Poptop2, Jan 6, 2020
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  2. Day

    Day

    I didn't bother with mobile phones for a long time.
    I think number 15 was the only one I've bought.
    Had four or five since then and have found them all!.
     
    Day, Jan 6, 2020
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  3. Pony

    Pony

    Seven and eight look familiar.
     
    Pony, Jan 6, 2020
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  4. Terrordales

    Terrordales Nightshift

    Something like this, the number was 007 995 377

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  5. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    Can’t see it Don.
     
    Poptop2, Jan 6, 2020
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  6. Pudelwagen

    Pudelwagen Supporter

    No 9 for me!
     
    Pudelwagen, Jan 6, 2020
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  7. Terrordales

    Terrordales Nightshift

    Is that better?
     
    Terrordales, Jan 6, 2020
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  8. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    Yeah. It’s very similar to my first one :thumbsup:
     
    Poptop2, Jan 6, 2020
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  9. Gingerbus

    Gingerbus Supporter

    I had a Technophone as my first company phone around 1991/2.
    It was about 8” or 9” long if I recall, something like this:
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    Before that I had occasional use of a brick of a battery with a handset attached from BT in the late ‘80’s.

    My first personal phone was I think a Dancall on Orange in 1994.

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    Gingerbus, Jan 6, 2020
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  10. the2ems

    the2ems

    No. 6 is probably the closest. It was a Phillips, on the Vodafone network. I still have the same number.
     
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  11. bernjb56

    bernjb56 Supporter

    No 9 I think. Was with Virgin - I’ve hung onto my original number all this time because it ends -2345
    so I can remember it easily.
     
    bernjb56, Jan 6, 2020
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  12. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    My first handset was a BT jobby as I said before. I used it mainly to order materials when I was on site. The signal was absolutely pants and I would often lose it halfway through an important call, after a few attempts to redial I would sometimes throw the ruddy useless expensive piece of crud across the field and swear to myself that's where it would stay. Then my dog lady who always came to site with me and slept on the passenger seat of the van while I worked would spring into life and fetch the blooming thing back, if i took no notice of her she would take it back to the van and dump it in the drivers footwell for me and go back to sleep. The times I forgot I'd thrown it and eventually found it in the the usual place were countless.
     
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  13. Dubs

    Dubs Sponsor supporter extraordinaire

    Number 4 for me. Still got it somewhere, along with the monster heavy duty battery that nearly doubled its size! :lol:
     
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  14. CollyP

    CollyP Moderator

    Hutchinson telecom, approx ‘92. looked like no3
     
    CollyP, Jan 6, 2020
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  15. cunny44

    cunny44

    What do you mean remember - I'm still using it!!
     
    cunny44, Jan 6, 2020
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  16. snotty

    snotty

    An Orbitel 903 - a rare beast.
     
    snotty, Jan 6, 2020
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  17. snotty

    snotty

    Do you say "Ahoy!" when you answer the phone?
     
    snotty, Jan 6, 2020
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  18. rustbucket

    rustbucket

    Definitely no4 on orange.
    For some reason although I genuinely struggle to remember my current number although I’ve had it years now , I remember my first number was 0973282643
     
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  19. mikedjames

    mikedjames Supporter

    Philips C12 pre-pay on O2 in the mid 90s. The one where if you yanked the battery quickly after making a call, the debit to the credit stored on the SIM didnt happen. Beloved of people phoning families in India for that very reason. Had to buy it because of the withdrawal of Marine Coast Radio stations for making ship- to- shore phone calls on VHF for use on the boat.

    Made a call on a GSM prototype 19" rack placed in the passenger seat space of a Jag .. I think around 1988 outside the IEE at Savoy Place to another rig on the South Bank of the Thames. I was part of a team building a hardware mobile radio channel simulator for GSM phones. Five 20MHz DSPs in a huge IBM PC chassis. My phone has probably 1000 times more compute power today.
     
    mikedjames, Jan 6, 2020
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  20. Geordie

    Geordie

    Mine was a big massive red thing you throw coin's to! called a telephone box:cool:
     
    Geordie, Jan 6, 2020
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