[DXRulz]

Who here still has or even still uses an old school phone?

I have the following:

Nokia 3310 (Main, O2)
Nokia 8310 (Backup, Vodafone)
Samsung A300 (Orange)
Nokia 5110 (No Sim)
Motorola C450 (T-Mobile)

What ones do you have?

The reason i use an old school is because i have had modern ones and they dont have any useful extra features, the old ones can still talk and text the same as a modern one! I already have a decent MP3 player and digital camera so i do not need a phone with those built in, just more unnecessary features to drain the battery!

[luiskero]

power save is great, lol

plus you can play snake, wooooo

[luiskero]

power save is great, lol

plus you can play snake, wooooo

[GetMeOuttaHere]

I still have and sometimes use my trusty little Samsung A800, 5 years old and still going strong.

[prking]

Was I the only one who thought the thread was going to be about real old school mobiles from the early 1990s, not handsets which are just a few years old?

[linkinpark875]

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Originally Posted by prking

Was I the only one who thought the thread was going to be about real old school mobiles from the early 1990s, not handsets which are just a few years old?

The 3310 is ancient now almost 9 years old but still a classic not many people had mobiles in the 90's.

I remember the step from CIF cameras, VGA, 1 MP, 2 MP right upto the current 8MP plus the old video call mobiles.

The best step up on cameras when released have been the SE K750i and Nokia N95 both legend models. There's alot of old features missing in today's handsets like a light, infrared, changeable covers, ringtone composers on Nokias and some SE's have now ditched the front video call cameras.

[BT@home]

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Originally Posted by DXRulz

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I already have a decent MP3 player and digital camera so i do not need a phone with those built in, just more unnecessary features to drain the battery!

Huh? But neither of those features are a power drain if you don't use them !!!

[blueacid]

I miss my 8210

[Alcdrew]

Got a Ericsson T29, used it just a few weeks ago. Great phone.

[kyussmondo]

Got a Nokia 5110 sitting right here on my desk. Has an old Cellnet SIM card in it which won't work now. LG U8110 with an old 3 SIM card. A Nokia 3210. Nokia 8210. Sony Ericsson K750i. I also had a Sony Ericsson W880i but I sold that one for £20.

Looking at them now, I am so glad phones have improved lol. Although the Nokia 8210 was pretty awesome for its time. It still is a small phone.

I didn't get my first mobile till sixth form college, it wasn't like today where even kids as young as 12 carry around mobiles.

[prking]

Linkinpark, 9 years old is ancient? What about very popular handsets from before then like the Sony Mars Bar phone, the Ericsson flip phones that could be, ahem, "reprogrammed", or the Motorola active flip phones? Going even further back, the famous brick phones.

[Appleseed]

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Originally Posted by blueacid

I miss my 8210

Check out eBay

[Rob_Online]

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Originally Posted by DXRulz

Who here still has or even still uses an old school phone?

I have the following:

Nokia 3310 (Main, O2)
Nokia 8310 (Backup, Vodafone)
Samsung A300 (Orange)
Nokia 5110 (No Sim)
Motorola C450 (T-Mobile)

What ones do you have?

The reason i use an old school is because i have had modern ones and they dont have any useful extra features, the old ones can still talk and text the same as a modern one! I already have a decent MP3 player and digital camera so i do not need a phone with those built in, just more unnecessary features to drain the battery!

The Samsung A300 is a classic, I remember having it on O2 and using WAP, I think it was very cheap or free on the deal which I was on and always used to browse or banter on the chat rooms for ages.
The phone cost a bit at the time but was good!

[Mrs Doodles]

I used to have a Nokia 8310 brilliant phone

But nowadays i get bored with phones and change them every few months tomorrow my new C905 arrives

[Gort]

Got a Nokia 5110 that I was using frequently for nearly a decade till about a month ago, until I decided to get something newer: a Samsung J700. I swapped the sims around, using the new phone's sim in my Nokia and vice versa with the Samsung (the old sim isn't that old, because I had it replaced about two years ago, so my Samsung can take advantage of GPRS, etc). The Nokia is a back-up phone now, and has been used once since swapping sims.

[DXRulz]

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Originally Posted by Mrs Doodles

I used to have a Nokia 8310 brilliant phone

But nowadays i get bored with phones and change them every few months tomorrow my new C905 arrives

I did a little bit of switching over. My 8310 is now my main with the O2 sim, the Vodafone sim which was in that is now in the 5110 as the backup. The 3310 needs attention as it now for some unknown reason does not like powering up with a sim in, take sim out and it powers up just fine? I will look at that soon and it also needs a new casing as well as the back cover catch has broken off of the one attached to it at the moment.

[DXRulz]

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Originally Posted by Rob_Online

The Samsung A300 is a classic, I remember having it on O2 and using WAP, I think it was very cheap or free on the deal which I was on and always used to browse or banter on the chat rooms for ages.
The phone cost a bit at the time but was good!

I used to sit and do that every lunchtime in college when i had mine

[amt27]

i have a T66, supposed to be the lightest and smallest mobile ever, needs a new battery though,

[SuddenImpulse]

I've still got a Motorola Startac around here somewhere. So typical of Motorola to this day, fabulous phone but with absolutely bog-all functionality. You can't even reply to texts, you have to set up a new one