** The 'official' retro phones thread **

[Deleted member 77746]

Unboxing video!

Too late, it's in my new glass cabinet.... the start of the collection been looking for cheap stands on fleebay.

 

[Master Skooter]

My first phone:

It hand a flip paint on the front cover

This poster is a time scale showing every handset released by Nokia....ahhhh brings back memories!

 

[spudbynight]

I remember this chap. I wanted it an had to get my Maxon instead as it was cheaper.

 

[nichorob]

Nokia 1610 on the one2one network was my first.

 

[manveruppd]

I keep meaning to find a charger for the 8110i sat in my drawer.

Matrix y0.

Excellent, the banana phone! That was my dad's first phone, I inherited it after he upgraded and used it until 1999 when I got what *I think* was a 3110 (looked like a 3310 but with an antenna). I got a 3310 2 years after that, and stayed with it till 2004 when I jumped on the Windows Mobile bandwagon.

 

[Tute]

This is where I started back when I was 14:

 

[TheVoice]

Potentially a stupid question, but would these rather old handsets still work? That is, are the networks and SIM cards still compatible, or have things moved on? Obviously any really old analogue handsets won't work, but would digital ones? I don't mean 3310s, obviously they'd be fine, I mean the really early handsets.

 

[HypnoToad]

Potentially a stupid question, but would these rather old handsets still work? That is, are the networks and SIM cards still compatible, or have things moved on? Obviously any really old analogue handsets won't work, but would digital ones? I don't mean 3310s, obviously they'd be fine, I mean the really early handsets.

i dont see why not, as long as it does the needed bands then it should work

 

[mattyprice4004]

I've still got my first mobile somewhere, it was from orange, can't remember what it was now but it has a pull up arieal and took 4 AA batteries or a rechargable battery pack. Classic.

It would probably be a Motorola, my Mum had the same one when I was a nipper, and then it became my first phone.

 

[spudbynight]

i dont see why not, as long as it does the needed bands then it should work

They will as long as they are GSM. Some older handsets are going to be pre GSM

 

[rG-tom]

my first ever phone was the Coca Cola Edition sony ericsson A1018, went round the canteen at school collecting ring pulls for it:

 

[spudbynight]

That was just Ericsson back in the day

 

[Myshra]

Potentially a stupid question, but would these rather old handsets still work? That is, are the networks and SIM cards still compatible, or have things moved on? Obviously any really old analogue handsets won't work, but would digital ones? I don't mean 3310s, obviously they'd be fine, I mean the really early handsets.

There are 3210's still registered on the Orange network i know that much (operators can tell by IMEIs) and some C12s but in general the problem now is more that you'd need an older SIM that holds less texts (more and the early phone OS's couldn't probably cope) and was of the plain 2G only SIM variety as modern SIMs are designed with 3G software hooks in them which upset the older phones somewhat. In general though, all digital phones will work - as long as their electronics have held up to it. IMHO if you want to go through the wayback machine i'd grab a Nokia - their 2G handsets were timeless and over-engineered masterpieces.

 

[spaceman]

Nokia 1610 on the one2one network was my first.

same

 

[Deleted member 77746]

@rG-tom I had that phone! awesome.

 

[agw_01]

I keep meaning to find a charger for the 8110i sat in my drawer.

Matrix y0.

ha, my Dad used one to have one of those. I thought it was so cool.

My first mobile was one of those small Philips handsets, they usually sported BTCellnet branding.

It was ****!

 

[Deleted member 77746]

@ all who posts in this thread. If you have any working old school phones you want rid of I would really appreciate it if I could have them or even paid for cash. I am trying to get a cabinet sorted for old phone (Just brings back memories) sad I know! ...

Willing to pay for delivery if you have any email me in trust. Cheers.

 

[Myshra]

My first mobile was one of those small Philips handsets, they usually sported BTCellnet branding.

It was ****!

The philips C12 was awesome, don't be rude 2 lines of texter fury. Especially with the "modded" versions where if you rebooted them all your credit came back. Ahhhhh BT Cellnet - your "security" back in the day was a marvel - who would have thought storing PAYG credit amounts on the client side was such a bad idea.

 

[Bri]

my first phone was an old motorla that used large sim cards iirc,
this was it, back when you had to by airtime and credit, and way before texting came about.

That was my 1st too! 1997 I think

Replaced it with one of these;

Panasonic EB-G350

Then a Nokia 5110 with a silver cover just like this;

Next a Sony J5 which was (in my mind...) the coolest thing ever!

Then back to Nokia's with a 3410, had a brief horrible affair with Motorola getting a T720i, which had a camera you had to plug onto the bottom of it as shown here ;

.....followed by a V600;

Both of these were utterly awful so I went back to Nokia with a 6230 which was a great little phone

 

[Confused]

My best "old-skool" phone would have to be the Nokia 6100:

It was small, thin, light, and "just worked"

If it had Bluetooth, I'd probably still have it kicking around somewhere.

It had a 4k colour screen - yes, that's right, 4096 colours!