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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

So fifty years of mobile phones,what was your first phone

Can you go without now

We both had Motorola flip

I can go without mine

Lisa can’t she’s constantly on hers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nokia 3210

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

NEC in the car

Box under seat

Ariel in roof

2000 punts

Directory enquiries had your mobile number which started with 088 ....back in 1991

How old am I ffs

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By *arry and AnnCouple
over a year ago

Louth

"Nokia 3210 "

Absolute champion of a phone

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

I have a policy of never carrying a mobile phone, principally because I think that the majority of conversations (from what I hear whilst on buses) are usually inconsequential.

The 'urgent' communication is rarely important; and important communications are very rarely urgent!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"NEC in the car

Box under seat

Ariel in roof

2000 punts

Directory enquiries had your mobile number which started with 088 ....back in 1991

How old am I ffs "

Your as young as you feel Jesus that was big money

But I suppose you’d pay that now for one of the new iPhone or Samsung

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

"NEC in the car

Box under seat

Ariel in roof

2000 punts

Directory enquiries had your mobile number which started with 088 ....back in 1991

How old am I ffs

Your as young as you feel Jesus that was big money

But I suppose you’d pay that now for one of the new iPhone or Samsung "

900 euro now for a mini computer

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Nokia 3210

Absolute champion of a phone "

They were bulletproof

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By *ajRallying555Man
over a year ago

Galway .Limerick

Siemens of course

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Siemens of course"

Ha of course

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Nokia 3210

Absolute champion of a phone "

Yea always remember playing snake on it those were the days

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By *hatCoupleNextDoorCouple
over a year ago

nearby

It was a panasonic, got it after my junior cert iirc..

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By *exesrangerMan
over a year ago

Jameson main bar

Yeah I think mine was a Nokia also. Great phone for its day

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By *ornywife20Couple
over a year ago

North Cork

Philips Digi . I had to take the battery out of the phone and charge the battery in a special cradle . Sp I didn't have the use of the phone when I was charging it . Mad stuff altogether lol

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Has anyone still got one of the old ones

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Philips Digi . I had to take the battery out of the phone and charge the battery in a special cradle . Sp I didn't have the use of the phone when I was charging it . Mad stuff altogether lol "

Ah Jesus I got my mum one of those,memories flooding back look up Peter Kay on the phone to his Mam or it could have been his gran hilarious same thing happened to me so funny

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By *eanbelfastMan
over a year ago

Belfast

Nokia 5130

Nokia 3310

Nokia 6310

Nokia 8210

And a couple of Sony Ericsson’s before moving to Apple. I still have most of them

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By *ancy38Woman
over a year ago

galway

Chipped phone. All you had to do was turn it off and it gave you 99pond worth credit again..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My first mobile was a trumip think that what it was called .. when it rang all different colours would light up .. I thought I was cool .. bless me lol

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By *oxyvixen99Woman
over a year ago

Newtownabbey

Nokia something or other, it was indestructible

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By *iscuits8Man
over a year ago

Meath / Dublin / Birmingham

A brick-like Ericsson, followed by a small, flip phone Ericsson, on to Nokias with a 5110, 3210, 3330. Then the Sharp GX10i - the camera flip phone everyone had.

I remember the 3330 with WAP internet access - the funny/dirty pixel images. And looking up the dirty erotica stories, spent so much credit in my early teens on all that stuff

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"A brick-like Ericsson, followed by a small, flip phone Ericsson, on to Nokias with a 5110, 3210, 3330. Then the Sharp GX10i - the camera flip phone everyone had.

I remember the 3330 with WAP internet access - the funny/dirty pixel images. And looking up the dirty erotica stories, spent so much credit in my early teens on all that stuff

They were the days probably that got us too were we are now

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By *j47Man
over a year ago

limerick

NEC brick on 088 eircell

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By *antra MassageMan
over a year ago

South Side.

An alcatel, with an aerial. No screen, just take or receive calls.

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By *cottybear74Man
over a year ago

kilkenny

"NEC in the car

Box under seat

Ariel in roof

2000 punts

Directory enquiries had your mobile number which started with 088 ....back in 1991

How old am I ffs "

Had the Motorola brick lol could put 4 AA batteries in it if it ran outta charge also 088

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By *humper22Woman
over a year ago

waterford

Mine was a Motorola flip phone and you had to pull the ariel up.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jesus I have no idea what my first phone was, I barely remember the last one before my current. I know I only got one after my son was born so the childminder could contact me in an emergency. I made it through the first 30 years without one, pretty sure I could adapt back. Life was simpler then

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By *ealitybitesMan
over a year ago

Belfast

First was a Nokia 3310 supplied by work in 1992 or 93.

Managed to survive for years before that working in sales and having to stop at phoneboxes to contact customers or ring orders back in to the warehouse.

Had a pager from about 1986.

Didn't have a non work phone until the end of 2013.

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By *ealitybitesMan
over a year ago

Belfast

"First was a Nokia 3310 supplied by work in 1992 or 93.

Managed to survive for years before that working in sales and having to stop at phoneboxes to contact customers or ring orders back in to the warehouse.

Had a pager from about 1986.

Didn't have a non work phone until the end of 2013. "

Can't even get that right. It obviously wasn't a 3310 back then but the year is correct

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By *efender90Man
over a year ago

sligo

Siemens s8 … I’ve kept all my phones since ..

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By *ildarekinkstersCouple
over a year ago

kinkytown

A Motorola where you had to pull the Ariel out to make a call. Was great as it was one of the first you could text people with.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

First was an Ericsson with swappable facias the a Nokia hand me down from me da

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By *oghunter33Woman
over a year ago

on the hill NordWest of

First mass produced mobile wasn't until the early 90ies, so to the consumer it's only 30 years (makes me feel bit less old

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I remember endless landlines phone calls with my bestie when I was in my teens, mobility range max 1m.

Anyhow my first a Nokia. And yes I could live without my Samsung.

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

So in the old days as a teenager

No you hang up

You hang up first

Now

Bye

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By *ewadventures2017Couple
over a year ago

some where near

Think it was a nec

Like a brick lol long rubber Ariel on the end

Worked for a truck company at the time fixing lorries

Them were good days lol

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By *ealitybitesMan
over a year ago

Belfast

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By *ealitybitesMan
over a year ago

Belfast

Started working when I was 19.

If my boss needed me outside working hours he had to call to the house because we didn't even have a landline until I was 20.

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

A Siemens brick that couldn't be charged until it was fully discharged first, and there was no such thing as a spare battery. It was a nightmare when you look back at it but it was a game changer all the same as you didn't have to leave a site looking for a payphone to order materials etc.

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By * la carteCouple
over a year ago

Dublin

An Ericsson phone, there was a cover which could be changed for different colours. Still got the same number I got with that phone!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

3310. still have it. still 1 bar battery

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By *rish_GuyMan
over a year ago

Foxford

Didn't think it's that long ago. I was thinking more along the lines of about 30 year's ago.

Mine was a Motorola (something), it was on a credit plan. That's 23 if not 24 year's ago now. Remember the number still alright. About a year or 2 later won a bill phone on the essat (diditphone) network. It was a little Siemens. It was about half the size of the Motorola

Still have that number today. Gone through a fair few phone's sence then alright.

The Nokia 3210 were some phone in they're day alright.

Mobiles are (cource) & a vertue for some people, as they can't live with them, can't live without them now.

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By *ookingfun82Man
over a year ago

Enniskillen

This is actually making me feel young, most people talking about 80's and 90's.

My first a second hand Philips Savvy on 2001 or 02 from parents, then onto Nokia's. Between getting phones and having a work ppgine must have been 2012 before I actually bought a phone.

When it was calls and texts just used work phone until apps came in and bettee having a separate personal phone.

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By *ildGroverMan
over a year ago

rathfarnham

My first phone was around 94/95

First of my friends so had no one to call and was frankly embarrassed to ahem whip it out

It was a big block of a yoke. GSM?

Calls were so expensive I don’t know if I made any for a few months!

Last time I was a technology leader among my peers I’d say

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