What was your first mobile phone?

[MancFrank]

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Hey all! Just found this site whilst idly killing time. Anyway, to answer the question, NEC 9 A (analogue pre ETACS!) in early 1988 thru work as a youngster - I was 18 - 19 and it really was quite a novelty back then. It was quite hefty but could JUST be squeezed in to a coat pocket... sort of! Would've set me back almost £2,000 had I bought it myself.

[escorteclipse1990]

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My first was a Bosch. Can't remember the model but it was a transparent bright orange one and i'm pretty sure that Orange was the network.

Bosch 509e it was my first pay and go phone and it was on Orange and it was in orange too. It cost me £120 back in 1999. I have six of them in the attic three in orange and three in white.

[Sly]

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My friend had that blue phone. I remember thinking how sleek and modern it was. I had a good chuckle when I saw that picture.

[Moondog]

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my very first mobile was the Vodafone MN1, i had the blue one

[Richard1978]

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Only knew one person who had a pager, a deaf friend, around the time I got my first mobile.

I remember my Dad had one for work for a couple of years before getting a mobile to replace it & his carphone.

One or 2 friends had them at college.

[Trickyvee]

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On my Mum's first phone (a Motorola from Orange) you could only received texts on a "Pay As You Go" package.

I never remember pagers getting that mainstream compaired to America, it must have only been a brief period before mobiles came down in price.

Only knew one person who had a pager, a deaf friend, around the time I got my first mobile.

[Sly]

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Did you know it costs nothing to the network provider to send a text? The radio masts that pings your cellphone to tell where it is sends data, as well as your phone pinging back to the mast. The extra space left over from these pings is 140 characters worth of data.

[Richard1978]

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On my Mum's first phone (a Motorola from Orange) you could only received texts on a "Pay As You Go" package.

I never remember pagers getting that mainstream compaired to America, it must have only been a brief period before mobiles came down in price.

[Trickyvee]

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Mine was a Vodafone MN-1, in 1997. It was red and I loved it! I remember looking through the menu's and wondering what the 'messages' menu was for! Now I send hundreds a week

originally manufacturers dithered as to whether to include text messaging on phones. They thought it was a throwback to pagers and that nobody would use text messages if they could speak instead. Wrong!

[Beach Life]

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A cherry red virgin mobile (think it was made by Alcatel and was well made) and I paid quite a lot of money for it in approx 1998. Sadly it broke so I got a replacement (see pic below). I never saw the film even though I fancied the actor! It was much heavier than my previous one and I was on the look out for the next one! Mainly ones made for Virgin. My favourite Virgin one was by Siemens which was a pebble type phone with a mirror inside, camera video etc. I still have it but now I have HTC Windows phone which is great!

[themilkman]

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Really can't remember now as it was about 1997 ,all I know is that it was with orange and it had an aerial at the top that you pulled out ............not quite the same as my Blackberry I'm using atm.

[thewww]

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I was given one of these for work late 1980's
Panasonic portable analogue mobile phone. The handset detaches from the the main unit. It weighed about 3kg with battery.
No sim cards or pay as you go in them days.

[shilton dipper]

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my first phone was the Maxon MX-3204 / MN-1

[80sChav]

80s Mobile Phones

I can recall these when Joey on Bread had one and one from a scene in Only Fools and horses, but that was about 1992 I think. Regards Joey's Phone, I think sometimes he had a Car Phone or a Cordless one which was similar to a Mobile in those day's, not as I knew the difference until year's later.

I also recall Mr Hargreaves on Grange Hill in Series 15 (1992) trying to install a Mobile Phone in his car, which would be similar to Joey's I think, attached in the middle before Mobles became how they are now.
After this the next "big thing" I knew about Mobiles was when I was young, me any my Mum picking up a Mobile for a friend's daughter who had lost it while working in a Holiday Camp - that'd be about 1993 I think.
What can other members recall about 80s Mobiles or the first time you knew of one (say an advert or it on Tv say)?

[vanhelsing]

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The one I have at the moment's a 2nd hand O2 XDA2 mini pocket pc.

Whose connection died (I couldn't reconnect it) so I had to get a Windows drivenmobile, a second hand Windows mobile 6.1 HTC Blackstone (I still had the SIM and SD cards) and at least headphones,re dead easy to get for it.