40Th Anniversary Of The Mobile Phone

[tiggerblue10]

Just seen this on the news.

Do you remember your first mobile phone? What was it and when did you get it? If you've ever owned one that is.

[sunny-dave]

About 1991 - analogue phone the size of a brick - provided by my employer so that they could call me ... if I dared to make a call to anyone except them there was a serious inquest over the monthly bill.

[Stephen_G]

I had the Motorola V2288 phone...

http://image.ffmobile.com/product/photo/41/77/10038055.d0e22a231d28e1a3a181f67746c7281f.jpg

I loved it because it had an FM radio built-in, so I could listen to the footy commentary on a saturday afternoon. Can't remember if I bought it from QVC or somewhere on the high street, but would have been late 90's.

I then had the Nokia 3310, Nokia 8310, Sony Ericsson W810i and the Nokia N8 (My current phone).

[chrissa1]

I had a brick when we started our own business, as there was only the two of us. When I used to pick my then, 7 year old up from school, I would pray nobody would ring me. I would have died of embarrasment.

I can't remember its name.

[tiggerblue10]

This was my first mobile in 1993/4.

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?um=1&hl=en&;biw=1294&bih=688&tbm=isch&tbnid=fV7ddAvE3QF37M:&imgrefurl=http://community.phones4u.co.uk/a-moment-in-tech-jan-1996/&docid=PmwTcpHQrhwT0M&imgurl=http://community.phones4u.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Panasonic-G350.jpg&w=500&h=300&ei=kqNcUZatKMfY0QXK_4DoDg&;zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=682&;vpy=139&dur=1644&hovh=174&hovw=290&tx=209&ty=113&page=1&;tbnh=147&tbnw=248&start=0&ndsp=28&ved=1t:429,r:4,s:0,i:91

This was my next mobile. these were all the rage in 1997/8.

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?hl=en&biw=1294&bih=688&tbm=isch&tbnid=oXxoQ6T-IsROBM:&imgrefurl=http://www.retrofones.com/motorola-m301-mercury-one2one-not-for-sale-prod-178.html&docid=AwHmwD93yhARpM&imgurl=http://www.retrofones.com/images/SV208023.JPG&w=600&h=450&ei=fqJcUY-wL-7s0gWz7YCIAw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=207&vpy=132&dur=1692&hovh=194&;hovw=259&tx=110&ty=106&;page=1&tbnh=153&tbnw=214&start=0&;ndsp=31&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0,i:82

[Zacs-Master]

The prototype handheld phone used by Dr. Cooper weighed 1.1 kg and measured 22.86 cm long, 12.7 cm deep and 4.44 cm wide.. The prototype offered a talk time of just 30 minutes and took 10 hours to re-charge.

[sunny-dave]

I had one of these as my first 'personal' phone in about 1994

http://www.ericsson.poral.net/ericsson_eh237/ericsson_eh237_01.jpg

[humbersloop]

I had one of those dave

[tiggerblue10]

Hmmmm.....why can I never put a google image on a post without all the surrounding crap?!

[vodkancoke]

This was my first mobile

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.retrobrick.com/nokia81103.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.retrobrick.com/81102.html&;h=287&w=259&sz=26&tbnid=JFlcY4Vb-GYEBM:&;tbnh=90&tbnw=81&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dnokia%2Bbanana%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=nokia+banana&usg=__jXQ157HRmQx5BxvIL1QdqRrj5qA=&;docid=ToDHJVXLGIbF6M&hl=en&;sa=X&ei=XqVcUfzyMKnB0gXu9oDwAg&sqi=2&;ved=0CDUQ9QEwAQ&dur=0

[Stephen_G]

Click on the pic you want, tiggs, and it should alter the page to say "View original image." If you do that and then the right-clicky bit, that should help.

[Stephen_G]

I wanted that one because of it's use in The Matrix, vodka. Such a cool phone.

[tiggerblue10]

Just tried Stephen but it still comes up with the pic in the middle and the website in the background. I don't know where I'm going wrong.

[netibiza]

My first one was an Ericsson (before they went Sony) .

[Eve]

1998/9 I think, a bit chunky Nokia - I remember me and friends having pagers to track each other down before that!