what was peoples first mobile phone - Page 8

Anonymous · ‎18-07-2012

what was everybodys first mobile phones.

mine was a nokia 5110 on orange in 1999 or as they called it the nokia c402

Anonymous · ‎13-11-2012

I loved the old colour version of the Samsung x460. Lovely lightweight, fits in your pocket, flip front, clear sound & easy to use

MI5 · ‎13-11-2012

@Anonymous wrote:
Toby, really stretching my memory here but if I remember rightly, the 3310 was a dark colour and had no WAP, whereas the 3330 was a light grey and had WAP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_3310

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Toby · ‎13-11-2012

WAP!? Ah yes. I haven't referred to WAP in a long time haha

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perksie · ‎13-11-2012

@Toby wrote:
WAP!? Ah yes. I haven't referred to WAP in a long time haha

Why?

One of the O2 APNs for getting online is still "wap.o2.co.uk"!

Perhaps one day they'll rename it............!

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jonsie · ‎13-11-2012

I would imagine that is way down on their list of priorities, they probably don't realise it still exists:smileyhappy:

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Anonymous · ‎13-11-2012

I got a startac as well back in 1995 I think....if I recall, the sim card (back then a full size credit card shape) kept falling out. I've always loved Motorola's flip-phones. Also back then, it was analogue not digital, and with the right equipment you could "tune in" to peoples phone calls.

Anonymous · ‎14-11-2012

Hi WalesRob,

Your StarTac must have been a digital GSM model as it had a SIM card. I remember those full credit card sized ones well! The analogue TACS (analogue 1G) network ran until around 2000, BT Cellnet switched theirs off on Sunday 1st October 2000. So in 1995 you could indeed listen in to the TACS analogue networks run by Cellnet and Vodafone but you couldn't listen to the then still newish GSM calls. The TACS network used handsets that did not have SIM cards, which is how to pinpoint your StarTac as a 2G GSM handset. In the UK GSM and TACS ran side by side for around seven years, 1993 to 2000. It is shocking to admit now, as an older and wiser person, that listening in to the 1G phone conversations with a scanner was often very amusing