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15 iconic mobile phones we've loved and lost | Stuff
Here's our guide to a bunch of iconic mobile phones we loved but went the way of the dodo. Rest in mobile heaven.
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I had the Nokia 3310 and it was my 2nd mobile phone. I was in high school!
Then the Samsung 300 when I was at the university, my first color screen phone that could take pictures! I remember sharing pictures taken with that phone with my then crush now husband! Then I bought the Nokia N95 in NY when it was not yet available in Europe. I later sold it to a work colleague as I had bought myself a second hand blackberry 9000 because it was easier to reply to emails. It was an amazing phone. However, with the advent of smartphones, blackberry went out of business.
I had my father bought a blackberry smartphone but it wasn’t as powerful as an iPhone. Currently, in my family we all have iPhones. The first one to buy an iPhone was my mom.
I would never switch an iPhone for anything else. I tried android phones before getting an iPhone, but I don’t recall which one I had bought. I have been using iPhones for over a decade now and I am so used to them that even if there are excellent android alternatives, I wouldn’t consider one just because I’d have to relearn to use it and my computer is also an Apple, so…
My second cell phone was also the Nokia 3310, which I loved. I really hated giving it up for my first iPhone. I’m still using iPhones, despite their less than stellar cameras, because after all these years, they are second nature to me. But that Nokia 3310 was so tiny - about 1/3 the size of my current iPhone - and so cute! The removable faceplate meant that I had a range of covers in different colors, including a tigerskin print. Try THAT with a smartphone!
Still got lots of phones from the past. That was when I knew how to use the bloody things and didn't need reading glasses!! I don't really have the patience for them nowadays. I hardly ever take mine out the house and mostly use it for WhatsApp and to take pictures with. Whereas the missus is never without hers.
Still got lots of phones from the past. That was when I knew how to use the bloody things and didn't need reading glasses!! I don't really have the patience for them nowadays. I hardly ever take mine out the house and mostly use it for WhatsApp and to take pictures with. Whereas the missus is never without hers.
My husband lives with the phone glued to his hands. He takes it to bed to get asleep (apparently, Argentinian politics talk shows have a soothing effect on him - weird, I know), in the bathroom to play music while he showers. He never leaves it around the house, not even to charge.
I, on another account, consider my smartphone a work tool, but I'd gladly leave it at home if I can. I just need some me time, and the constant notifications are a nuisance. Even if I mute them, just the fact that I have the phone with me prompts me to look at it. There are studies showing we have the impulse to check our phones every 9/11 minutes. Way too much!
Add to that safety concerns, and my phone stays home! (It bugs me when you go to a restaurant and you need a phone to read the menu... when I tell them I don't have one, they look at my like I am from Mars).
The number of drivers I see here using them is incredible. If you get stuck behind someone when the traffic lights turn green you can be sure the driver in front is messing with their phone. Even lorry drivers can be seen driving along with their phone in one hand.
(It bugs me when you go to a restaurant and you need a phone to read the menu... when I tell them I don't have one, they look at my like I am from Mars).
I hate that too! I want to see the whole page at once, not little bits of it that my brain has to piece together.
serafina , we share your husband’s use of podcasts as effective fall-asleep tools. But be sure he knows that the phone must be a minimum of 2/3 meter away from his head, because of the radio waves. (I asked a neurologist what distance was safe, and he happened to have been one of the people who had worked on the studies. He was very definite about that.)
I see it hardly doable. Even I am not 2-3 meters from my mobile phone during the day.
No! 2/3 meter (two-thirds of a meter), not 2-3 meters. When I use earbuds and listen to podcasts at night, I do a rough approximation by placing the phone as far away on the nightstand as my hand can reach.
I had the Nokia 3210 and Sony WS810 or something like that, before I moved to iPhones
No! 2/3 meter (two-thirds of a meter), not 2-3 meters. When I use earbuds and listen to podcasts at night, I do a rough approximation by placing the phone as far away on the nightstand as my hand can reach.
I see now! Makes more sense. 2-3 meters is basically in another room, unless you live in Texas. In which case, you could leave it on the nightstand and still keep it 2 or 3 meters away from where you sleep
I had a Nokia 9000 Communicator which was massive, a Nokia N95 8GB which was excellent and several other Nokias.
My very first was a Panasonic which I got in 1989 and it felt like carrying a small briefcase around with me. I eventually got a car kit fitted and the handset was positioned just left of the steering wheel, but you could reassemble everything when you left the car.
I was well chuffed with it.
In 1995, I believe, we had a “car phone” that weighed about 6 kilos. By 1998, my husband had a cellular phone that was more mobile, as it weighed perhaps 2 kilos. I remember taking turns carrying it when we were at a Cajun music festival while he was on call. Sounds awful, but it was a step towards freedom, since before that little monster, he’d have to find a phone booth and call in whenever his pager nudged him.
In 1995, I believe, we had a “car phone” that weighed about 6 kilos. By 1998, my husband had a cellular phone that was more mobile, as it weighed perhaps 2 kilos. I remember taking turns carrying it when we were at a Cajun music festival while he was on call. Sounds awful, but it was a step towards freedom, since before that little monster, he’d have to find a phone booth and call in whenever his pager nudged him.
I bought this brick because I'd just started a new business from my flat and my landline had been disconnected, I couldn't pay the rent and was taking orders in the phone booth across the street.
One of my first major orders came through on this Panasonic.
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