Your old cellphone??

Wouter1 · Post by **Wouter1** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 1:11 pm

We give them to the kids. They love playing with the real stuff!

Annie_in_exile · Post by **Annie_in_exile** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 2:37 pm

valkske wrote:my first was a phillips, he broke down because you couldn't put him in your pocket and he fell a lot of times in my truck

...and maybe just once under your truck?

Finn · Post by **Finn** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 2:58 pm

Wouter1 wrote:We give them to the kids. They love playing with the real stuff!

How old, ie. young, kids?

Ganymede · Post by **Ganymede** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 3:09 pm

Annie_in_exile wrote:
valkske wrote:my first was a phillips, he broke down because you couldn't put him in your pocket and he fell a lot of times in my truck
...and maybe just once under your truck?

That would be just once, not "a lot of times"...

Helge · Post by **Helge** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 3:37 pm

I get every two years a new cellphone, when I renew the contract.

Then the old phone goes to EBAY, to make some money

Johnyboy · Post by **Johnyboy** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 3:46 pm

My first GSM was the Philips Fizz
I got it from my employer. (1996)
At the time new attractive models came available I smashed the Fizz
on the kitchen floor. Now it was broken. And it was replaced.

I got me a new one (1999)
The good old Nokia 6150.

This model had the well know problem with the display.
I got me a new conductive rubber, mounted it in the phone and the model is nowadays still working. It is my wife's handy.
I have now the Nokia 6310.

Fundamental · Post by **Fundamental** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 4:59 pm

Finn wrote:
Fundamental, here's one of yours, Nokia 880, looks very similar to 2110.

Yeah that's it. It is just like 2110 but it has something different on the keys or something. Now I just remember that I also have 5110 (green) in my closed. I used it as second phone when I was on internet (gprs) with my Ericsson T200.. I still have it just in case

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 5:44 pm

Wouter1 wrote:We give them to the kids. They love playing with the real stuff!

Or you can let your dog play with them. A dog used a mobile phone to call the emergency number 112 and complain that he was left alone. The dog yelled for 56 seconds, and the person who took the call first thought that there was a person in serious trouble. Later he called the number back, and the dogsitter answered (she had just entered the dog's home). Everything was fine, except that the dog didn't like being alone. (And in another piece of news it was later told that the following week the dog had destroyed the whole phone.)

Only in Finnish, sorry. http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/tuoreet/ ... 8651545331

aplfi · Post by **aplfi** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 6:53 pm

First one:

Second one:

This became old today:

centurian · Post by **centurian** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 7:24 pm

I sold the first two I had, and third was stolen and the fourth I'll prolly keep until UMTS becomes cheap enuff to afford.

4 cellphones in 10 years isn't that many really, I know some people that seem to have a new one every time I see them!

Bugs · Post by **Bugs** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 7:49 pm

Finn wrote:
Bugs wrote:My new one (Siemens S55) was relatively cheap because I continued to stay with my cellphone provider. I only had to pay € 89 for it.
And you pay rest of the price hidden in your monthly fee. Here in the place of free choice we pay more for phones and less fixed fees

But this would be matter of separate thread I think.

That choice was given to me too.
Now I pay € 22.50 with 150 minutes included monthly. Have to stay with my provider for two years. I know I pay more as enough for the phone eventually. That is fine by me. If I took a SIM card only it would have been € 11.50 as far as I can remember. I know there is no such thing as a free lunch.

Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 5:28 pm

My phones:
Nokia 6130 (City version of 6110): Dissolved into little pieces. Now lives in a minigrip bag ;)
Nokia 7110: The keyboard cover got annoying and I threw it away. Now it doesn't have a microphone anymore. But there's always the HF.
Ericsson A2628s: This one was damn cheap (495mk = ~83€). In about one year it started to be in little parts around the world. When I was in Spain, it didn't let me read an SMS I had gotten from a person who was my girlfriend back then. I let the phone meet my fist and then threw it (the phone) to the thrash can. Then I called to my friend in Finland from my other friend's phone (used my own sim card) and when I came back to Finland I had a phone waiting for me.
Nokia 5510: This one just found the end of its lifespan. The speaker doesn't function too well anymore (can't speak in a tram because of noise..) and so on. I will get a new one in April. Also the qwerty keyboard is partially not functioning.

ellinoora · Post by **ellinoora** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 2:35 pm

My old phones end up usually to my dad, but my current phone is owned by the company i work for so i guess this one will be returned back if i'll get a new one.

chrisu · Post by **chrisu** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 3:00 pm

My phones:

1. Nokia 3110 (This was my mothers, but I used it too)
2. Nokia 3210 (My first own phone, the battery was so crap that I bought a new)
3. Nokia 3330 (Same battery-problem with this one too, so I sold it after a year)

Now I have a Siemens A50 and I haven't regret the change.

Wouter1 · Post by **Wouter1** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 3:15 pm

Finn wrote:
Wouter1 wrote:We give them to the kids. They love playing with the real stuff!
How old, ie. young, kids?

daughter 7 years old, son 5 years old