If it's still under warrently, take it to a NSC like the Carphone Warehouse (even if you didn't get it from there, just take your club nokia card) and they can update the firmware (that should fix the software bugs) and they can fit a new housing, which should fix the slide.

My first phone was a Motorola, the one before the M3788, it looked uglier, but it was exactly the same phone inside. Got it in 1999 free with an MBNA credit card

Personally I like the M3788 styling, but those phones are very large by today's standards, a sort of brick mark 2.

the m3788 is HORRIBLE!!!

So you didn't buy one. Sorted.

nope i had taste

First moby? Nokia 101, an old analogue house-brick, bless.

Same here on contract with a new company called vodafone

i remember i had a Motorola MR201 on Orange for 2 weeks as my first phone, that classes as an house brick!!!

My first phone was a Siemens S6 on vodafone.

was that the thin but big rectangular one?

Mine was a Motorola MR1 on Orange. Cost £149.99.
This phone was so basic you couldn't even send SMS text messages, although you could receive them.
There was no caller ID either, so you had no idea who was calling you.

Standby time was about 8 hours - on a good day.

I recall once used it in London, went home on the train to find that I had left my car headlights on and the car battery was flat. Tried to use the mobile phone - but its battery was flat. First time I had "really" needed it and I had to find a phone box to call the AA.

Connection was £30 and I got 15 minutes of calls a month for my £17.50.
Still have the same number and paying the same line rental, although I get 60 minutes of calls now.


Simon.

LOL!!!!

the MR1?

when was this?

sounds cheap calls

mine was a technophone think it was an early nokia
and was on vodafone

i still have it somewhere :P

sell it as an antique!

Mine was a Motorola Colorado on One2One

dunno what happened to it though

This was about 8 years ago, around 6 - 9 months after Orange launched. I still have the coverage map from the time - it was in the back of the welcome guide. There was no coverage past Salisbury for the South West, nothing in Wales except along the M4 and I think it stopped around Leeds going north. There were large patches of white in the rest of the country. Although compared to one-2-one at the time it was widespread. The store I got it from didn't even sell one-2-one as there was no coverage.

As it was the first network to have "per second billing" the calls went quite a way. The other thing I used to do once BT brought in Caller ID support was to phone home, let it ring two times then hang up. My mother would then 1471, realise it was me and call back. That was the days when it was really cheap to call Orange phones from BT.

I might even still have the phone around here somewhere in its box!

Simon.

lol do you have a pic?

motorola m301 (I think) on the old 121 free evening/weekend tarrif. Shame I cancelled the contract a few years ago 'cos that sim was worth about a grand at one point!

Though I could claim to own a rabbit phone, but I never actaully bought it, it was given to me by my uncle.

Beavis

My first phone was a philips diga, (i got it free from some credit card company) cant remember what happened to it. it was my pride and joy

i remember the diga!

Of what? The phone or the coverage map?

Simon.

the phone mate

thats like the mr201 i have!

My dad had the ORIGINAL brick phone. Yes, that was its name. Search on eBay if you dont believe me .

At the time it cost him about £1500 i think... yes thats right... £1500.

Myself, i had the 5210(i think it was that) Anyway, it was top of the range when i got it. I was the most popular kid in school

oh and not forgetting the 3210 which cost £300.

I still have my first phone which I got in March 2001. It is a Nokia 3310 on Virgin, cost £69.99.