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What was your first ever mobile cell phone ?

Oxonian
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Mine was a Nokia, mid or late 1990s, about the size of a box containing a tube of toothpaste, and came in a leather pouch with a belt clip thereon :- 

 

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It was on BT Cellnet in the days when you could ring Customer Services - in Bradford maybe ? - and any problems would be solved in the blink of an eyelid.   

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I posted this last night but it got rejected as spam ! 

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Numerous posts on the very same subject already.

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I had a BT cellnet didn't even no how to send a text message!! 

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I remember sending my first text message @Pipstop78 ; but my first "mobile" 'phone came with a huge aerial and also had a small bag to carry it in as it was massive.

If I recall correctly, that was before BT Cellnet came into being. It was on Mercury One to One, the only other UK network at the time being Vodaphone.    

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I’m sure mines was a Motorola d160 PAYG with Orange in 1998

 

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