A bit of nostalgia.. phones you're still fond of from years gone by?

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Considering they've now got a social discussion area on the forum figured I might try and start a thread

What old phones do you still have a soft spot for even if you wouldn't be seen dead carrying them down the street anymore?

Sharp GX 25 is still a favourite of mine from late 2004 back when Vodafone still carried Sharp as a manufacturer. There was also a red limited addition Ferarri version. Really sturdy and reliable phone but you had to live with just 3MB internal memory at the time - almost unheard of now. There were lots of shoddy flip phones on the market back then where the connectors weren't secure and the screen would often die a death and lose contact with the battery and keypad - this one never failed

Next up the Sony Ericsson W900i walkman phone. I remember having the white version of this towards the end of 2005, mainly because of the huge amount of internal memory it carried at the time - just short of 500MB with a card slot taking it up to 4GB. Certainly the top Ericsson walkman phone at one point and a bit different with the 'swivel' flip screen. Had Mobile TV as a subscription on my contract with this one (around the time of the big 3G push) although looking back it never really did take off.

Any other mobile memories out there?

[RetiredTom]

Yep, AnnS and JohnA have got it!

To be specific, that's the MCA-20. Yes John, it was VGA quality as standard, and could store a whopping 14 shots at that quality, or over 200 at QQVGA quality which was even worse.

I seem to remember it cost at least £100 when I bought mine.

I absolutely loved the T68i, although I do remember I had more than one of them during my contract tenure due to issues.

[thesoupdragon]

Motorola V525

This was my first contract phone.

At the time I was in America a lot, so Quad band was a must! This was one of the few phones that had that feature.

The Camera although small by today's standards had 4X zoom.

With the stubby aerial you could get a signal anywhere.

SMS was great on this phone as it would predict words and insert them for you, I really liked that feature.

I kept and used this phone for three years! It served me well... :smileyhappy:

[RougePenguin]

While moving house i found these from my days of working in Voda, think it dates me a little.

There were others, the worst memory was programming Analogue phones for a Christmas release of the first ever 'Pay as you Talk'. Ericsson Hotlines i believe

Yes, im old. Good times though, new phones were released every 6 months and were something to look forward too, unlike now where they come out every second wednesday.

I wonder if the old phones are worth anything....

[RobinM]

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LOL! That looks like you could 'jump start' your car with it!

[sativa1874]

Npkia 8210 loved that phone

[Pryda]

It's the old Nokia 3210 for me. Snake was amazing. Simpler times!

[Dr_Darwin]

My first brick...

Alcatel One Touch Easy

[agorman]

Siemans SL10 - First slider phone - it was sleek and sofisticated

[cash_13]

Memory's memory's.......Motorola 4800X was my first company phone when I was working for Wang and was on call out...

I was called 3 nights in a row about 3am and my wife picked it up and lobbed it out the window which would'nt have been so bad but we lived in a maisonette 4 floors high........I had some explaining to do when I took it back....I told them I was just checking the doors to the MK111 escort van and had left it buy the drivers door when a bin lorry drove over it....well I never got my pay rise haha!!!!

My PH388 was a brilliant phone and my company Unidata brought 50 for the management and as I was the warehouse manager I was the daddy....lol we all used to swagger around like we owned the place... 😉

Phones I had>>>>  T10-T16-T28-T68i ( Colour screen wow Nokia 7110 ( fell out my pocket on my motorcycle and was crushed ) Sharp GX25 ( again out my pocket at about 100mph ) did not get it back...P800 brilliant phone with my first traffic warning sytem...paid £500 cash and then my son had it a year later and he was running on ice and slipped over and pop went the screen..

Then Nokia's ever since 6600 6680 N95 ( N96 last seen being used to set of bombs no doubt ) HTC HD2 ( sent it back ) Samsung S

This has been a speach by the Ive waisted to much money party :smileyvery-happy:

[ianst28]

my sony ericsson t68 was my favorite it unfortunately died in an answering the phone whilst still asleep with a large glass of water on the bedside table incident

another one i loved and still do love was my blackberry pearl
ohhhhhhh and my nexus one i know its recent but my daughter has it now she asked me to do something on it the other day and by the time i had finished i was trying to persuade her to let me flash a different rom