Originally Posted by de525ma:
“My first was a Nokia nk402 (basically an 1800MHz 5110) on Orange JustTalk.
Topped up using a £50 voucher, and got 25p/12.5p calls which wasn't too bad.
The major pain was that it got 10 free texts a day, but that was it. Try an 11th, and you got the cryptic "message not sent this time" error....
About 6 months after this, they removed this and texts cost 5p (with the £50 top up).”
I remember selling those by the box load, probably the best selling single PAYG item on orange in the '90s and early '00s, for the life of me I don't remember the 10 text limit and I was there when they launched (I've even got a "medal" that came with the first batch designed to be used to change the fascia). Memory is not what it used to be it seems

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They weren't cheap either, they were either £229 or £179 at launch (that useless memory again...)