My old Phones

[Nasher]

Have been clearing out a cupboard today and found all my old mobiles.
Thought you'd like to see the differance in size etc.

First one has a SIM card in it dated 1985

Yes the larger ones weigh a lot.
The heaviest and earliest one weighs 329grams.
The lightest, but not the latest, is 83grams.
How did I ever carry some of them around in my suit jacket pocket

I also have a full 'fitted' hands free kit for most of them.

The ones in the centre of the first image are my current phones for home and work, and yes I know my old Motorola is several years old, but its interesting to see how they've got bigger again.

Nasher.

[codprawn]

That's scary I still have a Nokia 1611 sitting on my desk!!!

one thing I have noticed is that every new phone I have seems to be slower than the one i had before........

The best phone I have ever had was the nokia nk702 - aka the 6110 - it was brilliant - I had the Axel F ringtone - long before crazy frog. the phone was almost indestructable - dropped it from 12' onto concrete and not a mark!!!

[Nasher]

I think Mrs Nasher had a 6110, but she gave all her old phones to charity a while back, wouldn't let her give mine away, the early ones might be worth something one day.

Nasher.

[Bigmuz7]

Yeah I've got a drawer ful,l I dont know what to do with aswell, you couldnt keep the early ones tho, as you had to trade them in .. you know the handbag ones with a handset attached on a cradle ?.. Matter of fact I still use my original 0860, or now 07860 number from 1990 to this day

[Andy Moore]

Some of those might be collectible. You should look on eBay and see what they are going for.

I sold a StarTac for £40.00 recently.

[TonyC]

I have my old Motorola mr30 sitting in my desk drawer here too

[Andy JC]

Interesting site: Oldmobil

I don't think that would be the date maked on your old SIM card Nasher, as far as I remember I don't think SIM cards came about until the early 90's

[Nasher]

Originally Posted by Andy JC

I don't think that would be the date maked on your old SIM card Nasher, as far as I remember I don't think SIM cards came about until the early 90's

Andy

I thought that, and I'm sure the phone itself is from @1991.
However on the back of the card it has dates for the retailer to circle.
85.86.87.88.89 and mine has 89 circled.

It is of course a full credit card size SIM card not the smaller one you get now. I'll try to get an image of it later.

Nasher

[Bigmuz7]

Originally Posted by Andy JC

Interesting site: Oldmobil

Argh ! Nice find Andy I was Googling for my old Philips handbag job from 1990 this morning but couldn't find a site for old phones Looking back on it .. there were some real horrors we had to cope with in those days hehe

[LURCHER]

I have this one somewhere ,we ran it over with a landrover and it still worked !