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Ha ha ha... my phone is *ANCIENT*!
Kodaz
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So I'm sitting at the computer when my phone goes beep beep beep. Orange has sent a message saying my phone has picked up T-Mobile's service signal for the first time and I can use their network. No big deal, I knew that they were merging them.
What's interesting is my phone doesn't show the network as "T-Mobile", it shows it as...
One-2-One (click for pic)
I'm thinking... yeah, I remember them. Guessed (correctly) that they must have been the ones that got taken over and renamed by T-Mobile and that my phone had the old name because it was bought before the takeover.
But the thing is, I checked it out and apparently they renamed the network in 2002, i.e. nine years ago. My phone is still living in 2002.... well, actually, it's probably living in mid-2001 when I bought it.
Damn, I knew that thing was ancient, but still. Seems a bit weird, the phone equivalent of a haunted old radio that still picks up shows from the 1930s. You feel that you could call up someone from 2001 and warn them about 9/11 or something. :eek:
What's interesting is my phone doesn't show the network as "T-Mobile", it shows it as...
One-2-One (click for pic)
I'm thinking... yeah, I remember them. Guessed (correctly) that they must have been the ones that got taken over and renamed by T-Mobile and that my phone had the old name because it was bought before the takeover.
But the thing is, I checked it out and apparently they renamed the network in 2002, i.e. nine years ago. My phone is still living in 2002.... well, actually, it's probably living in mid-2001 when I bought it.
Damn, I knew that thing was ancient, but still. Seems a bit weird, the phone equivalent of a haunted old radio that still picks up shows from the 1930s. You feel that you could call up someone from 2001 and warn them about 9/11 or something. :eek:
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Yep, the sim is the same age as the phone. Both are museum pieces now, but still in use.
BTW, was reading this thread and surprised to see more than one other person is still using a 3310.
Wrong, the carrier names are stored in a file and part of the phones firmware.
both old phones and new!
So it will be 15 this year.
Still works perfectly and does all it ever did. Mine says One2One too.
I was on the Bronze tariff until I decided to go on PAYG.
List of country and network codes here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Network_Code
Is the OP as old as the phone?
Thats one old phone you got there.
Well, if I was the same age as the phone, I'd be coming up for my 10th birthday... so it's only really old by phone standards.
Compared to people who replace their phone every year or two? Yep, undeniably- that's why I posted originally (even though I don't have a problem with it myself, else I'd have replaced it!)
But compared to one of the respondents above who said that they were still using a 15 year old Ericsson as their everyday phone, it's really not so interesting!
Although I have had 3 other phones between then and my current one, I use this ancient one as a spare for 2 reasons. Firstly, I think it's a brilliant design and was unbelievably small in 2000 (still is!) and secondly its Lithium-Polymer battery (?the first consumer use of such a battery). It still retains most of its charge for about 9 months. When fully charged it will last more than 2 days on standby. Gets fully discharged and recharged at least once a year. Also have a higher capacity NiMH battery for it (3 days standby) but it goes flat within 6 weeks, as tends to be he case with most of the batteries for the other old phones.