Nokia 5110
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- set0
- set0
- orrinward20
- oh shit forgot about that, had that one too.set
- I still have one of those. Its my kids' toy box. They use it to play grown-ups, making calls and stuff.Horp
- I used to stare at that sunset wallpaper for hours, dreaming that I was on holiday somewhere.Fax_Benson
- lol faxset
- I had this toomonospaced
- Horp0
- matrix phone !
Never owned that beaut.set - I had three. One got nicked, one broke and ten got replaced. Last one just faded away with the changing fashions.Horp
- Three. One broke, TEN got replaced, and one faded away with the fashions.Horp
- TEN of the` fuckers got replaced though. Ten.Horp
- Bless you Nokia.Horp
- HEHset
- matrix phone !
- Horp0
HELLO
YES. THIS IS HORP.
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- set0
I had one of these 6210i's which at the time was a sheer thing of beauty to me. I took it to a shop in west croydon called jazz called and had the plastic casing replaced with wood.
Waited in sheer anticipation for 5 days while they fitted it. When I went to pick it up it turned out it was the first one they'd ever fitted and although it now looked great, it didn't receive any signal whatsoever. Haha, they broke my beautiful phone. They ended up giving me some other shitty nokia and a free case.
- My classmate had this and was proud because it was more of a 'business phone'... He is now a stock market trader...orrinward2
- and I a layabout halfwit 'designer'set
- i still have my 6210i, use it in emergencies. amazing battery life and it's still working fine...sine
- it's even been through a whole washing machine cycle, and i can't remember how many times i've dropped it.sine
- they don't make em' like they used toset
- i had the 6210i. had it for about a year until an office mate knocked it off my desk and replaced it with the 6310dijitaq
- I had one of these back when I worked in an agency, schlepping schit for Orange.
Halcyon days.detritus - Christ, I could've ended up being a fundamentally different, more successful human being.detritus
- Horp0
Jazz called, they want to apologise for fucking up your phone.
Only you couldn't hear them, because they'd fucked up your phone.
- set0
hahaha... good old croydon...
- orrinward20
- This is clearly an action shot. Ninja's use them instead of shuriken these days.orrinward2
- they were waterproof as well, weren't they?sine
- Yup. Though after a while of throwing them at walls and stuff the top and bottom sections could be pulled apart fairly easily...orrinward2
- easily. Probably not waterproof after that.orrinward2
- Stodgy wee buttons though.detritus
- teh0
- craigatkinson0
this was my first phone, fucking beast.
Motorola International 8200
The 8200 was produced in 1994 and had the distinction of being the first GSM mobile handset ever to feature vibrating ring tones. Talk time of 60 minutes.
http://pics.livejournal.com/vint…- maps never broke on this, no factory resetting from code etc. Acecraigatkinson
- Horp0
When I was at college, Mercury Communications were muscling in on BT's deregulated business. They had created a national network of bizarrely designed payphone kiosks, and then they introduced Mercury Communications 121 mobile phone. It was a giant blue plastic flip phone. It cost the earth but they had a special offer... anyone buying one within the first few months (I forget the actual time period) would have free calls for life as long as they stuck to a set of rules concerning use of the phone.
Kids in my year at college were spunking their entire year's grant to buy these phones, even though they had nobody to talk to on them, and they had to do various things like make a certain amount of inner London based called and a certain amount of national calls to keep the contract going. If they didn't stick absolutely to the letter of the rules the contract was terminated. One bloke in my year, Dom Leung if anyone knows him (he's a film editor) kept his big blue Mercury phone going for ages... way past the point after which mobile phones had properly arrived and Mercury Communications had ceased to exist.
I sometime wonder if anyone managed to keep one of those going even now, and some company somewhere has inherited the contract and has to keep giving them free calls.
The whole thingw as a scam though. It was really clear even back then that things were going to change and there was no way you'd get free calls for life.
- sine0
is that a nokia 5110 in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?