This was the first cell phone I used. What did your first one

[SeattleGirl]

look like?





:rofl:

[billyoc]

1. Oooh, svelte! I got stuck with the "prick 77"

[SeattleGirl]

2. LOL!

:spray:

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. Very much like this:

Mine was a Nokia, though.

[SeattleGirl]

5. I remember those phones.

But good grief, I didn't realize they came with a super-sized accessory pack! :)

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. What accessories?

That was just what you needed to hook the sumbitch up. :crazy:



If memory serves, non-roaming calls were .30 or .35 per minute. With the roaming charge, it went up to .80. And you could go across the street and be "roaming." :eyes:

[SeattleGirl]

10. Oh, yeah.

Guess I tried to block it out of my mind. :)

And the roaming charges were freakin' killers, weren't they?

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. It all was

The fees were ridiculous. The coverage areas were measured in acres. If you were on a call that lasted more than two minutes and it didn't drop, you were like, "Wow!"

But, it was a new technology then. We didn't know better. We were just glad to have it, because maybe one in 1,000 people did.

And that was only 13, 14 years ago. :crazy:

We financed the building of the telcom empire is what.

[SeattleGirl]

17. It still amazes me, how far technology has come in such

a relatively short period of time.

Hells, I was thinking the other day about how I learned to read with the Dick and Jane readers. The first computer I ever worked on was the size of a 12' x 12' room, and used punch cards.

And now.....

Ho-leeeee shiite!.

[LeftyMom]

13. I finally got all of those out of my Dad's garage and to recycling a few months ago.

He won't let me get rid of the Beta deck though, he thinks he might need it someday.

[SeattleGirl]

14. ......

:spray:

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. Hey, Beta's comin' back!

It'll be on the same bus with Elvis and Heebus.



I took mine for electronic recycling a year or so ago. It actually made me a little sad.

[SeattleGirl]

18. I never did have a Beta, but I remember when the war was

going on. Prolly a good thing I didn't have the money at the time buy anything!

[KitchenWitch]

32. Hey, I have some Beta tapes I could donate to his cause!

:D

[pinniped]

20. Wow, looks like a full 3-watts of power.

.

[hobbit709]

24. Had two of those

One for me and one for my wife. The good thing about them at the time is that they had enough power to work in fringe areas.

[GOPisEvil]

30. Yep - that was my first.

Basically a glorified car phone.

[LeftyMom]

4. I *loved* this phone.

Ten years old. Had internet access and actually fit in my pocket.

Those things made me a crapton of money, since I worked for an electronics store at the time. We couldn't keep them in stock.

[SeattleGirl]

6. "This image link contains an illegal code."

Got another pic you can post?

[LeftyMom]

7. fixed it.

[SeattleGirl]

8. Wow. That's pretty damned modern compared to my first one.

It weighed a ton. Thank goodness for technology that enables smaller phones!

[LeftyMom]

11. My first job was at an electronics store.

That phone was great, because everybody else had those Nokia candybar phones and it looked different (and had more bells and whistles.) I'd be talking on it between classes at school and people'd come up asking me where I could get one. I had to start carrying business cards with me everywhere.

[SeattleGirl]

12. Cool!

Nothing like making some bucks while you're in school!

[pinniped]

19. People still sell new 'bricks' on FleaBay. I had a Diamondtel (Mitsubishi) Mesa 90x (c. 1989 ).

It was a cool looking device, about half the width of a handheld scanner.

It cost $800.00 and got stolen.

They would also rob you on the bill!

- .90¢ a minute peak
- .45¢ a minute off-peak

[SeattleGirl]

21. $800?????

Holy crap!

And yes, they were "great" at robbing people with the bill.

[pinniped]

22. I got a little carried away. I could've picked up a nice watch instead.

.

[Forkboy]

23. I still don't have one, nor do I want one.

The last thing I want to do is make it easier for people to reach me. I don't even want to answer my home phone. :P

[SeattleGirl]

29. Pssss, Forkboy......

:you can turn the cell phone off: :yoiks:

[Forkboy]

33. I know...so what's the point of getting one?

It would just be off all the time. :D

[kedrys]

25. Motorola Startac

I had it for years and years and it never dropped a call. I replaced it because the antenna started to fink out on me during calls. I replaced it with a RAZR - you should have seen the faces of the salespeople at the cell phone store when I walked in with the ST and asked to be shown their top-of-the-line phones. All of a sudden, I had the undivided attention of 5 salespeople. :rofl:

I kept the Startac for sentimental value, even though it's deactivated. It's right over there on the desk.

[Frank Cannon]

26. The Startac was mine as well

That was one kickass phone. That thing went through hell, including being frozen in a block of ice in the office parking lot, and it always had great audio and never failed.

[SacredCow]

27. More props for the Startac...

That was one seriously reliable and bullet-proof phone.

[lazyriver]

28. That was mine too...it was a company phone and it kicked ass. It

might still be the best phone I've ever used.

[Crabby Appleton]

36. I worked at Motorola in the late '80s-early '90s in the

Communications & Electronics Division-Engineering, the MicroTACs and StarTACs were made with the highest quality (and most expensive) mil-spec components available, they were very well made devices.

[KitchenWitch]

31. Here is my first cell phone

I think it weighed like a pound with the battery.

[Rabrrrrrr]

34. This

Later on I got a miniature model:

[deucemagnet]

35. A Nokia analog model like the one below.

It became obsolete when the networks started going digital.

[tigereye]

37. it was about half that size