I actually threw my one of those out the other day as the battery was so far gone it wasn't worth hanging on to even as a spare.

I'm currently using a Samsung J700 which must be 3-4 years old now, and was a cheapy back then.
I say using, what I mean is carrying in case the car breaks down, or something urgent happens with my parents.
It gets used for an alarm clock more than a phone.

Which reminds me, I got a text from O2 saying if I top up this week I'll get an extra fiver of credit.

I may take them up on that and put a tenner on it, that will last me a couple of years...

I was looking at someone's white iPhone 4S the other day and it was like a bigger, keypad-less NEC N343i from 7 years ago, I thought Apple were design geniuses?

Sagem had some very attractively desiqned phone but the software was poor, I had 3 Sagems, the best was the myX6-2, the worst was the my721x which had a beautiful brushed steel design but a completely unresponsive keyboard.

If you don't use the features, it's a waste. But with my phone I do use the phone, texts, mp3 player, surf the net, use the Satnav etc. it means I dont need a seperate laptop (though I have one for home), Satnav, mp3 player, camera, video camera, etc. add the cost of all that up and it starts to make a bit more sense.

Looks a lot like my Samsung E1170, which I use as a back up phone. To be honest if my smartphone packed in tomorrow I could easily start using it as my main handset. It's all well and good to have a camera, constant internet access and thousands of apps but I could live without it if I needed to.


I agree. I would probably still have my first mobile tucked away somewhere, the Philips Savvy, had the dog not chewed it up. It would be interesting to have a bash on one now.

I just have a bog standard cheap no-name touch screen phone bought a few years ago. I can ring and text people, so what more do you really need?

I bought this phone last Wedenseday as I had broke my other Samsung phone, beyond repair, what a phone, the reception is absolutely fantastic,you would think you are standing beside the person you are talking to. Plus I kept the battery from the old samsung phone so it should last forever. It is a sturdy wee phone and my husband got one as well. I just text and ring,this constantly being on the phone for this and that is a bore:sleep: I actually can afford an IPhone or any other new gadget but I do not need them, so it would be bought just to impress people and that is really sad, but some of the phones have a good resolution and such like, I am not ashamed of my phone at all, in fact I like to be different from the crowd. My friend from college has the new IPhone and trying to have a conversation with him is a struggle, he is in love with his phone It is there throughout the class and break, I call him Robocop now as the phone has become part of him. I am not knocking anyone who has to get the latest model, I have never felt the need and consider myself lucky that way.

I would love to know how you put whatever name you want on your links, like bad boy how do you do that?

Highlight the writing, then click the little button above the posting box - looks like a little world with a paper-clip underneath it. A box will pop up and you just put your desired url in.

Alternatively type [url="your-url-here.com"]your words here[/*url] without the *

cheers goonst

Here you go.

Even includes a screenshot showing how.

My phone's really uncool. I don't have one outside of a landline.

Something to be said for having an older model phone. My current Blackberry has pretty much packed up and I haven't even had it a year yet. My favourite phone was my Sony Ericsson S500i. If it hadn't have broken I would've kept it forever.

I'm so jealous of your phones!

I've got a rubbish Samsung pay as you go job, which I don't use. I've got a decent work mobile with unlimited minutes and they don't seem to pull you up for personal use.

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I have a really retro phone: the iPhone 4


It's sooooooo 2010!

I remember being with a friend of a friend as he got a Savvy from a One-2-One shop on Whitechapel Road near the tube station, the shop is long gone but I loved how they had a raised wooden floor with glass inserts and phone handsets below.

I had a Phillips Diga on Cellnet http://www.cntr.salford.ac.uk/comms/...CD308_Diga.JPG

I still have my analogue Nokia 101 http://www.retrobrick.com/101.jpg and about six years ago I was walking around the Museum of London - there was my handset. That starts to make you feel old when you see a phone you once loved and cherished in a museum! I always liked the ringtone on that handset so I sampled it (before they turned off the analogue network) and it's my ringtone on my current handset. (I also still have my BT pager but they've turned off their network).

please ignore my last post thankyou

Bought my Nokia in 2005....works perfectly, so can`t see the point of buying another.

Have to admit quite fancy a new Android one though.

doggy mishaps

got it.

I still have my N95, love it. Cracking camera.

how can you keep up anyway with the rate that new upgrades are coming at you, but I must admit when I was a teenager I had to have the latest thing IPhone 5

its not free its subsidised by the network

you could could a sim only contract and save the cost of your "free" phone

Why don't you just get one of these?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BRAND-NEW-...#ht_5271wt_905

I'm often lured into the trap of old mobiles phones,

when I was about 12/13 I lusted after the Nokia N93 , :P Even though it's arguably one the ugliest phones of all time, to me, at the time with my mum's old PAYG Nokia 6100 , It was the holy grail of portable communication,

anyway, I recently bought an old one on eBay to see what it was like and with the intention of using it from time to time today, but it didn't really work out :L -

let's just say - don't meet your heroes :L