Inspired by a CB convo

This was actually my second phone, but I can't remember the model number of my first. Either way, this was circa 1998:

I introduce to you.....THE QUALCOMM QCP-2700! It was pretty sweet because it had a toggle wheel on the side for toggling through the menu (first of it's kind). And I still swear it got the best signal of any phone I have ever owned.

7/20/2011 7:08:43 PM

samsung n200

7/20/2011 7:11:12 PM

OMG, I remember that phone from when I worked at Sprint! It was the upgraded version of that piece of shit Samsung where the flip broke 98% of the time

FYI, my phone was was single mode, so it only worked on the Sprint Network. They later came out with this "slim" version that had the ability to roam......BADASS!:



[Edited on July 20, 2011 at 7:15 PM. Reason : a]

7/20/2011 7:13:51 PM

i think i might've actually had the piece of shit one that did break all the time

but i can't find an image

7/20/2011 7:15:11 PM

7/20/2011 7:15:29 PM

^^ I was looking for it too. I thought it was the Samsung 2400, but I can't find a picture of it. I remember we would have customers who would get like 6 of those before we would finally swap them to the N200

7/20/2011 7:16:51 PM

^^ haha that was mine too! Then I upgraded to a razor, however they spelled it, and thought I was kewl.

[Edited on July 20, 2011 at 7:17 PM. Reason : ^]

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7/20/2011 7:18:04 PM

Ernie knows.

WUTCHOOKNOBOUTSNAKESON?!

7/20/2011 7:18:15 PM

got it for christmas...

7/20/2011 7:18:34 PM

[Edited on July 20, 2011 at 7:19 PM. Reason : i had ernie's and green jay's first phones as well]

7/20/2011 7:18:50 PM

i700plus by Nextel, when it wasn't apart of Sprint

I still have the same number...circa 1999.

7/20/2011 7:18:58 PM

Yeah, I played a fuckton of snake with that phone taking dumps in the Tucker bathroom freshman year

7/20/2011 7:18:59 PM

aww yea the nokia 5165:


i was so jealous of my friends that had phones that could vibrate

i had to watch for it to light up when i was in a movie

7/20/2011 7:19:07 PM

I carried this thing for a good four years until freshman or sophmore year of college where I finally retired it. The thing was indestructible. I could throw it off the roof of the fraternity house and it would never break.

7/20/2011 7:19:35 PM

^ agreed, those phones were beast

I think just about everyone over the age of 28 had that Nokia at some point in their lives.

AND OH SNAP! DB19 BROKE OUT THE STARTAC!

[Edited on July 20, 2011 at 7:21 PM. Reason : a]

7/20/2011 7:20:42 PM

YES I DID

I had that one, then upgraded to the cool one that could go from analog to cellular depending on where I was. It had a green screen tho that had more room for text n shit

fuck I still have it in a box somewheres

[Edited on July 20, 2011 at 7:24 PM. Reason : e]

7/20/2011 7:24:15 PM

^^I was always jealous of the nokia phones because all I ever wanted was to play snake.

7/20/2011 7:25:52 PM

I think I actually had to memorize phone numbers still

7/20/2011 7:29:03 PM

That's it, I am calling Sprint and asking them if I can downgrade to the 2700

no need for the $10 extra a month for unlimited data

7/20/2011 7:30:38 PM

^^ 90% of the phone numbers i have memorized now i had memorized before i had a cell phone

7/20/2011 7:30:47 PM

Shit, I don't even know my girlfriend's phone number, and we have been together almost 4 years

I don't know my best friend's phone number, and he has had the same number for over a decade

[Edited on July 20, 2011 at 7:35 PM. Reason : a]

7/20/2011 7:34:13 PM

Motorola bag phone, similar to this. I think I had 20 minutes per month or something like that, haha. I don't recall the exact #, but it was only for use in a pinch or emergency.

I then got another Motorola phone similar to this:

7/20/2011 7:44:56 PM

Quote :

"^^I was always jealous of the nokia phones because all I ever wanted was to play snake."

90% of my time on my nokia was spent playing Snake - filling the screen with my entire body, pressing RIGHT DOWN or LEFT UP as quickly as possible to keep my body tight.

It was a hell of a lot more entertaining than Angry Birds.

7/20/2011 7:46:30 PM

The first phone that I had use of wasn't so much mine as it was my car's. Never left the glovebox except in case of emergency or to tell the parents where I was, as we had a plan with something like 30 minutes per month, total. LOL. This was in late '96. Don't remember the model of the phone, but it was a big old motorola, identical or nearly so to the one on the left here:


First one that was actually *mine* and that I used for more than emergencies was a Samsung SCH-3500 (the predecessor to the N200 that LunaK posted). Got it in March 2000. Curiously the hinge didn't break on mine--the reception just got worse and worse until I got fed up. Had it for 2 or 3 years though.


[Edited on July 20, 2011 at 8:06 PM. Reason : d]

7/20/2011 8:05:03 PM

^ YES, IT WAS THE 3500

That motherfucker was a piece of shit. I worked customer service at the Sprint Store on Glenwood for 2 years, and I would deal with like 30 of those a day.

7/20/2011 8:09:59 PM

Quote :

"90% of my time on my nokia was spent playing Snake - filling the screen with my entire body, pressing RIGHT DOWN or LEFT UP as quickly as possible to keep my body tight. It was a hell of a lot more entertaining than Angry Birds."

Yesssssssssssssssssss, loved this game!

7/20/2011 8:10:18 PM

[Edited on July 20, 2011 at 8:10 PM. Reason : that I can remember at any rate]

7/20/2011 8:10:21 PM

Nextel i90c

Early 2000s...maybe 02 or 03. I was with nextel up until late 2009. My dad is one of maybe 5 people I know who still use direct connect/nextel.

[Edited on July 20, 2011 at 8:27 PM. Reason : ]

7/20/2011 8:26:24 PM

Got it from dad when I turned 16 and started driving in 98. Folks wanted to make sure I would be okay driving around and stuff. Definitely came in handy when the transmission died on me a year later.

[Edited on July 20, 2011 at 8:34 PM. Reason : I'm old]

7/20/2011 8:33:23 PM

got it when i turned 16 and got my license. parents wanted me to have one since i was out late for work.

[Edited on July 20, 2011 at 8:36 PM. Reason : adsf]

7/20/2011 8:35:15 PM

you still have that one don't you Neuse?

7/20/2011 8:35:54 PM

naw man i got dat 190% droidX

7/20/2011 8:37:05 PM

I used to carry the house cordless phone as far into the backyard as I could and use the paging function to talk to my friend sitting by the receiver near the kitchen. To me, this was basically using a cell phone for the very first time.

I was 8, and it counts.

7/20/2011 8:38:17 PM

my droidX has been pissing me off .. the 3G goes out randomly w/o notice (unless im looking at it) and will not come back unless i reboot

wish they would mail me an early upgrade offer like last year when the Bionic comes out

7/20/2011 8:39:34 PM

mine will lose data every now and then, but i put it in airplane mode and then back to normal and it comes back

7/20/2011 8:40:37 PM

7/20/2011 8:43:16 PM

^ Siemens.....semens

7/20/2011 8:54:51 PM

yeah that used to work for me, (airplane on/off) and for a while even switching wifi on and off would bring it back

now only a reboot works

7/20/2011 8:56:53 PM

I haven't been able to receive texts on my Samsung Epic for the past 2 days.

I hate my smartphone as much as I love it.....it is a true love/hate relationship.

7/20/2011 8:58:26 PM

7/20/2011 8:59:20 PM

i, too, had a startac as my first phone

followed by a v60

7/20/2011 8:59:51 PM

Duke an I have pretty much the same phone history but my first digital phone was a motorolla walkabout
Loved that phone

7/20/2011 9:03:09 PM

7/20/2011 9:05:31 PM

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Damn this thing sucked. I still am not great with numbers but with this you had no choice.

7/20/2011 9:39:23 PM

I had this bolted into my truck in High School for my construction job on weekends and during the summer. Kind of unnecessary.

7/20/2011 10:00:27 PM

set em up

7/20/2011 10:01:57 PM