Happy 15Th Birthday To

[Bathsheba]

the Nokia 3310! Loved it :) Not a question, just an invitation to a trip down memory lane :)

Baths
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http://metro.co.uk/2015/09/02/the-nokia-brick-phone-is-15-years-old-and-everyone-still-loves-it-5372084/

[Stephen_G]

I had one of those, back in the day. Happy Birthday 3310!

[ummmm]

I think everyone had one.

[Bathsheba]

I bet I could still find mine in the bottom of a drawer somewhere ;)

[Booldawg]

think it was probably most peoples first mobile phone.

was released at a time when people were getting into owning a mobile phone en masse.

[DTCwordfan]

Do you remember the Motorola Brick then, Baths?

http://www.vanguardprotexglobal.com/images/wordpress/uploads/2011/03/8000grey3.jpg

I remember being in Hong Kong in 1989 on a short term project that eventually took me out there, staying in the Hilton Hotel (before it was knocked down in favour of the Bank of China). It was a Saturday morning and breakfast time, a Chinese young man (about 22-25) pulling out his brick to chatter away into it, not so much for the importance of the communication but to impress the four young ladies on the next table. The only problem that was as he was going 'blah blah blah, wing wong cha' into the phone, it began ringing - and rather loudly so.

Plonker.

[Stephen_G]

there's some fantastic memes on Google for the 3310 - Armed Police using one as a battering ram. A 3310 bulletproof vest!

I had a Motorola V2288 as my first phone

http://media.engadget.com/img/product/13/ajs/motorola-v2288-lnj-800.jpg

[DTCwordfan]

The other time was two years later, in the Grand Hyatt there, the café overlooking the harbour. The ex and I were munching away when this rather attractive girl came in to the restaurant, the entrance elevated above the main floor of the café. She was on the Nokia, blathering away, as she walked in.

Then it became obvious, her date was in the window and he too was on his Nokia - and that they were talking to each other......

Plonkers.

[Bathsheba]

DT.....I remember my yuppie older brother having one of those in the 80s,...and it's also reminded of a visit he made around the same time, and he somehow mislaid his Filofax...he almost went insane.."my whole effing life is in that,...I HAVE to find it!!"

Ah Stephen....yes, Motorola was my very first!

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[-SharonA-]

Hey Baths, how is your back today??

[Bathsheba]

Hey Shaz,....sorry about that on the other thread,..I got the wrong idea...I thought that helen....person was a member from years ago ;)
My back is still agony, but thanks for asking x x

[-SharonA-]

Baths there is no need to apologise! I know folks are still wary of me!! Dunno why.
You need a back rub!!

[Bathsheba]

thanks Sha ;) x x

[joggerjayne]

Why is it still (slightly offensively) called a brick ...

When today's phones are getting bigger, and bigger, and bigger ... ?

Has everyone seen the completely ludicrous iPhone 6 and 6+ ??

[Stephen_G]

"Why is it still (slightly offensively) called a brick ...

When today's phones are getting bigger, and bigger, and bigger ... ?

Has everyone seen the completely ludicrous iPhone 6 and 6+ ??"


I think the new trend is to call some of them Phablets, JJ. Some of the Samsung Galaxy range are monsters too!

[Caran]

That is OH's current phone, bless!!

[Bathsheba]

Really Caran? Cos that makes me feel ok about admitting my OH has a Nokia 100 ;)
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