5 I remember liking dot matrix screen and browsing bit rushed WAP sites on it. Also being annoyed about having to activate the phone before I could use it.
9, later 12 (didn’t get to keep 9)
Not my first phone but moved back to it after my first smartphone because it was so solid. The only negatives about it were the proprietary connector (normal at the time) and sms not having a rolling delete.
I used it for 9 years. When I finally changed it, everyone was already using smartphones for a while. I could navigate the menu and text entirely by touch, which was practical during classes :)
Why would you not include the most epic of Nokia phones, the 3310?
Nah, you’re forgetting it’s predecessor 3210. This thing was rock solid. Battery lasted for ages. And snake… snake… snaaaaake! Only lacked a vibrate function…
And 50% of the ppl in my town had one.
I was looking for it as well!
Author started in 90s and missed entire generation of 80s suitcase phonesThis.
Where’s the bag phone?? The carphone???
Imagine having to buy a whole ass car just to make a phone call.
Was Gunna say, these pics are not old enough to give a correct answer for me.
Sometimes my dad would bring that last one home from his job if he was going on a business trip. I remember on one or two occasions he also came home with a Lincoln Town Car that I think was a company vehicle mostly driven by the company president and it had a car phone in it.
Those were tougher than Nokia’s.
9.
But I had a sliding faceplate on it so I could be cool like neo.
Also it had Snake.
You could also type in ringtones.
How’s this not on the list!
Never in my house, but I had an elderly lady neighbor in elementary that I would play board games with my siblings that had one. I remember having to use it one afternoon and her teaching me. I don’t remember the lesson exactly, but it definitely didn’t last long.
I briefly owned no3 as a replacement device, but started with no10 (or equivalent thereof)
The one with a damn cord, you ageist bastard :P
Also wheres Nokia 3310
For a long time I thought that a rotary phone was one of those old wall mounted phones with the horn that you had to crank to make a call because all of those “things people born after 19XX don’t recognize” lists had rotary phones on them. I was born after 19XX and basically everyone I knew had one of these so it couldn’t be a rotary phone.
Hah! Those horn phones were rare in antique stores when I was a child. :)
I remember my parents telling me we didn’t own the phone (pictured) in their bedroom. Turns out it was rented from AT&T. Young me was shocked at the notion. “But it’s in our house!”
At some point we upgraded to a push button version, of our own. Don’t think AT&T wanted the old one back. Got one out of the trash, sitting here now, wife wants me to toss it. “No! That and mom’s cursive typewriter stay!”
punch people with it. satisfying ding
I remember number 1 from when I played GTA Vice City.
I remember 4 from GTA San Andreas .
Only ever saw them in movies originally. But I also grew up in Buttfuck, Egypt so that didn’t help.
People joke, but Buttfuck, Egypt is a thriving metropolis of over 4 million now.
Number 9, or something similar. It was a Bosch without keylock, so it called random people when it was in by school backpack (too big for pocket) as it had soft silicone buttons sticking out. You know, when calling was super expensive. My parents weren’t happy. Soon after I got a Nokia 3210 which had keylock and fitted in my pocket. And had snake.
