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By *ogistical Nightmares OP   Couple
over a year ago

Manchester Area

Just going through some paperwork and came across a quote for mobile phones from March 1990

Motorola 8500X £345.00 with a car kit £560.00

These prices were based on a 3 year contract and billing of calls per minute.

Bear in mind all you could do with thesephones was make and receive calls, no text, internet, cameras and they weighed a bloody ton and had batteries with a few hours usuage.

Those were the days lol

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

Did mobile phones look like house bricks then,I cant remember.??

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By *ogistical Nightmares OP   Couple
over a year ago

Manchester Area


"Did mobile phones look like house bricks then,I cant remember.??"

Yes and weighed as much, one model was affectionately known as "The Brick"

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

My first phone was a Motorola Colorado. No games, no camera, no internet. over a decade later and I have an iPhone.

Technology. Wow.

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By *ichaelangelaCouple
over a year ago

notts

first one i had was more the size of a breeze block than a brick

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

I remember a car phone that had a battery the size of a briefcase

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By *oodmessMan
over a year ago

yumsville

motorola timeport was my first, cracking phone, and I took it around the world - just to lose it in a manchunian taxi.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

I paid £450 for a Sony Betamax in 1984, it still works

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

My first one was for the life of me can't remember but it was like a house brick with an Ariel,I'm surprised I didn't need a license.

A bargain at the time in woolworths on one to one.

Soon got rid of it for a Nokia 3310

Only calls and texts on that.

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

Technology and prices change 32 in tv 10 yrs ago £1200 now under £200

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs


"first one i had was more the size of a breeze block than a brick"

Haha, yes, we had a brick, and the carphone had a 'portable' breezeblock in the boot!!

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs


"My first one was for the life of me can't remember but it was like a house brick with an Ariel,I'm surprised I didn't need a license.

"

Yes, you'd get done for an offensive weapon nowadays....

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

The big difference is the flat screen, and improving battery technology. between them they have hit the gadget market hugely.

Need now to have a revolution in the storage media which has progressed but not at the breakthrough rate of the other two.

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

32gb on a micro sd card is a pretty big breakthrough to me.

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

It was weird phones got smaller and smaller and now are getting bigger and bigger again.

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


"32gb on a micro sd card is a pretty big breakthrough to me. "

64Gb is possible, but it's only a development of what was there before. I suspect that within 5 years multiple terabyte storage using a fraction of the power will open prospects we can't even imagine at the moment.

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


"first one i had was more the size of a breeze block than a brick"

the first one any of our family had, was my uncle and cousin, when they were doing mobile discos, and they looked ex army ones lol.

the battery was carried like a briefcase, with the phone on top.

horrendous things lol

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By *ogistical Nightmares OP   Couple
over a year ago

Manchester Area

Don't quote me, but I think calls were in the region of 25p per minute, charged by the minute. So if you did 2 mins 5 secs it was 75p

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

I bought a new car in 94 and got a free motorola phone. Had a small green lcd screen and a plastic aerial you had to pop up to make or receive calls. No choice of operator and the calls were exorbitant. I remmber getting bills of £100s a month.

Things do change for the better.

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By *ogistical Nightmares OP   Couple
over a year ago

Manchester Area

I remember having to fill forms in for customers to be credit checked which was faxed over. Then the phone was sent out, took anything up to a week to get connected

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

With vinyl and cassettes back in fashion and phones getting bigger again you should all see what you can get for your old bricks.

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

Phones have gone from "bricks" to tiny things you can hide in your hand and now are getting bigger again....my neices is twice the size it used to be ??

Are the "bricks" comming back i wonder ???

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

I remember reading about how things tend to go in a circle.

In the 70's if you needed to use the phone, you'd go outside. Now if you make a call, most people go outside, too

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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago

(She/ her) in Sensualityland

I was one of the first to own a Motorola as we lived in a very rural area and I often travelled alone in the car with very young children. It weighed a ton, took up the space of an entire handbag and the battery cell alone was bigger than today's smart phones.

People used to think you were a snob owning one in those days

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

I used to work in computers in the late 1980's. We once had to take a window and a wall out in an office to get a CD drive unit in. The thing was moved in on a fork lift. It wasn't far off the size of a small car.

The CD itself was a gold plated disc the size of a 12" LP

It must have cost thousands. Now a CD drive typically costs £50 and will fit in your pocket

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


"Just going through some paperwork and came across a quote for mobile phones from March 1990

Motorola 8500X £345.00 with a car kit £560.00

These prices were based on a 3 year contract and billing of calls per minute.

Bear in mind all you could do with thesephones was make and receive calls, no text, internet, cameras and they weighed a bloody ton and had batteries with a few hours usuage.

Those were the days lol"

Agree totally. Some things are cheaper than they have ever been. TV's are another example.

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


"Just going through some paperwork and came across a quote for mobile phones from March 1990

Motorola 8500X £345.00 with a car kit £560.00

These prices were based on a 3 year contract and billing of calls per minute.

Bear in mind all you could do with thesephones was make and receive calls, no text, internet, cameras and they weighed a bloody ton and had batteries with a few hours usuage.

Those were the days lol"

Technology has advanced dramatically. I read an interesting statement, some time back. It was comparing the computing power used on the lunar landing module, back in 1969, and that of an iPhone. The conclusion was, you can't begin to compare. If someone had seen an iPhone in 1969, they'd have thought it was from another planet. Technologically light years apart.

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


"32gb on a micro sd card is a pretty big breakthrough to me.

64Gb is possible, but it's only a development of what was there before. I suspect that within 5 years multiple terabyte storage using a fraction of the power will open prospects we can't even imagine at the moment."

I think they'll be pushing cloud more for that kind of storage.

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