Your first cellphone...
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Mine as well. I remember playing snake on that thing.
irvinehomeowner
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I don't remember exactly but I think my first one was a really small Uniden phone. At the time it was one of the smaller phones out there... saw it in a newspaper ad and called the 800 number... I think this was before they had stores set up (my service was through LA Cellular).
irvinehomeowner
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Actually... I think when I got my first phone... it was before texting... like Mesozoic Era.
sgip
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I had two of the biggest and most powerful cell phones of the day. One was made by Mitsubishi, it was about the size of a Twilight novel, corded, and had a 2 watt power level. Cell phone strength at that time (mid 80's) were measured in wattage. The only pictures I can find are for the Mitsubishi Romer, but the version I had was with a larger battery.
The second phone was made by Sony, also a 2 watt phone, but it was about same the size of a Motorola Brick phone. It snapped into your car and could be "hands free" as you drove, or you could detach it and carry this 3lb lead weight along to important business meetings. The phone was also corded, but considered mobile. The battery on this thing was red hot all the time.
Anyone a former L.A. Cellular customer? They've got stories to tell.
I keep hoping these devices gave me some sort of mutant superpowers given the amount of radiation they put out. People make me mad, but I don't turn green and SMASH things.
The second phone was made by Sony, also a 2 watt phone, but it was about same the size of a Motorola Brick phone. It snapped into your car and could be "hands free" as you drove, or you could detach it and carry this 3lb lead weight along to important business meetings. The phone was also corded, but considered mobile. The battery on this thing was red hot all the time.
Anyone a former L.A. Cellular customer? They've got stories to tell.
I keep hoping these devices gave me some sort of mutant superpowers given the amount of radiation they put out. People make me mad, but I don't turn green and SMASH things.
irvinehomeowner
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I had both.
I would give people my pager number and then call them on my cell when they paged me. So I always kept my cell off and only used it for outgoing calls.
I would give people my pager number and then call them on my cell when they paged me. So I always kept my cell off and only used it for outgoing calls.
Irvinecommuter
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ps9 said:So which was your first?...Here's mine.. the Nokia 5190...
Interesting article...http://www.cnbc.com/id/100613035
Mine as well. I remember playing snake on that thing.
homer_simpson
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First cell phone was a Nokia...
Had a pager first though!... Did anyone use the pager code?
43770-31131240173!!
Had a pager first though!... Did anyone use the pager code?
43770-31131240173!!
iacrenter
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Wow I guess all of us had Nokias at one time. I got mine from the old VoiceStream Wireless, now TMobile. I was very impressed since they were early adopters of PCS--offered paging service option at voicemail prompt. My young friends laughed at me when they saw my faceplate:
Woodgrain ahead of its time.
Woodgrain ahead of its time.