Mike was wondering what the average age of other peoples mobile phones as been. And from memory I will try to put the mobile phones I’ve owned into chronological order..
The first phone I ever sort of owned was my Mum’s old Sagem. It was the most basic mobile phone you’ve ever seen. It was technically my Mum’s but I took it out with me whenever I went out so my parents could contact me.. It looked something like that picture but I can’t remember the exact model number. Eventually the screen became detached from the electronics inside and it couldn’t be used for anything unless I held it together, haha. RIP that one.. Took it apart to see what was inside when I got the next one..
I managed to acquire a Motorola v100 from a friend for a very good price. This was such an awesome mobile phone and is probably the reason why I still SMS more than make calls. If you made a call on the mini-laptop looking v100 you had to use the hands free kit but it’s Qwerty keyboard made it perfect for sending texts. I remember it had a really fun break-out game on it too.
We’re into 6th form territory now, I had my own income from my part time job. So I got my first contract mobile, a Nokia 3510i which I paid for myself. I got 100 txts and 100 minutes for £30/month, a true rip off in today’s terms but back then not a bad deal. I had this phone for ages, when the contract ran out I went Pay As You Go for a while as well, so far this is probably the phone which has lasted longest. As Nokia phones go, it was top of the range when I bought it, look at that colour screen and imagine the polyphonic ringtones! I had Toploader - Dancing in the Moonlight for a while.. Haha. It had GPRS as well, I used to make wallpapers for it on my PC and upload them to my website and download them to the phone - no Bluetooth you see and I wasn’t going to pay £2.50/week for those horrible wallpaper services on the premium text numbers. My brand loyalty for Nokia began here…!
When I started University, I started a new contract, got a good deal from the Intarwebz, a deal which even today no one can beat. Good ol’ Vodafone and the Nokia 6680! Another fantastic long living handset from Nokia. It still works perfectly today, just a few bumps and scratches. As for the reduced sized MMC card reader it has, I put a 1GB card in there so I never had to delete any photos from it. It came with a hands free kit as well, so I had a fair few mp3s on there too. The only real problem was, the Symbian 2nd Edition wasn’t built at the time to handle so much data so it did get quite slow.
November last year saw my upgrade to the Nokia N95 8GB. By far the best phone in the world 
And long may it live! So, that is five phones… four if you don’t count the first one cos it wasn’t “mine”. All have lived (and died in some cases) in the last, six years or so I’d say. And that is the history of my mobile phone ownership.
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