My First Mobile Phone
I was browsing my Linkedin account from iPhone and was happy to see friends who have changed their profile pictures, got promotions, or developed new links with people. I kept thinking that how much technology has changed the way we live now. These smartphones has brought the whole world only a touch apart. I touch my mobile screen and could see photoes of my friends in New York and New Jersey enjoying snow outside their windows.
Then I started going back in time and remembered my very first Nokia phone. I remember that it was silver in colour and was great to check time, send a message and make call to family and friends. I could type a long message within a minute. My fingers used to tick tick automatically on the buttons. It was a complete joy to send a message to a friend and receive a reply within a minute. It has no camera to take pictures, no apps, no sharing facility. But having said that the joy of having my first Nokia mobile phone was far more than current iPhone 5.
How was your experience with your first mobile phone?
gola
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Lol, i thought you were asking which phone to get for your fist phone ;-) i thought you might be behind the times :)
Mine phone was a similar nokia 3210 maybe, will have to do some research and check it out.
I enjoyed playing snake on there ...
newuseragain
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Mine was a plasticy Ericsson from Orange which I got on a trip to UK and it refused to work while back in Australia but I carried it on me for months until I was able to get another one. It had 5 different ringtones to choose from and took only 8 hours to fully charge.
riman
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First own mobile would have been an NEC P3 'brick' type 'phone. Had a flip out antenna, and awful battery life. I worked for Telstra way back when, and I can remember lugging around a portable (not mobile) phone - basically a large case with a lead acid battery in it & phone handset/cradle... showing my age now.... ;-)
ninhursag
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Hahaha. I remembered the weird ring tones I had for my mobile set. And then I had different ring tones for different people, that was such an exciting thing to know from the ring tone that who is calling?
gola
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Don't worry we will not judge your age based on the mobile set :)
gola
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I was listening to an interview with Thomas Dolby the other day - very clever guy.... apparently he helped to design a software based synthesizer way back when that was able to be used on mobiles to enable less boring ring tones. He reckoned that he was at Nokia when they developed their famous ringtone - they worked out that if they used a more recent tune they would have to pay royalties, which is why they used the classical excerpt.
ninhursag
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I have found my old one ..
nokia 3210
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_3210
i think i only had to charge it once a week, unlike with my phone where i am charging to once a day.
newuseragain
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I remember getting excited about downloading a polyphonic ringtone that was a song in melody form :) think i got it free when buying a fanta drink !
newuseragain
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I remember getting excited when I found out my Nokia could register a sound and associate that with a number - so it would listen to you saying 'home' and you could associate it with your home phone number. So it didn't do word recognition as such (you could make any noise, and associate that with a number) but the thing was it worked! I could just say "home" and it would start dialling. Now, my smart 'phone is too darn clever and if you say "call home" it will do something like "which home" so I have to say the full name that my home details are recorded under.... then it asks me which number (normal, fax, etc). finally, it then prompts me if I want to use the phone or skype.... And that's only if it recognises what I'm saying. Too hard.
ninhursag
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