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  • Offline Sara

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Longing for the old days?
on: March 20, 2006, 23:48:19 PM
Do you ever find you look at your old gadgets with a yearning to use them?

I have a really sexy Samsung A800 phone, and a Sony Clié SJ22 PDA just sat in my drawer doing nothing - both are beautiful pieces of engineering, however my current phone and my next upgrade do everything these two ever did, and better.



Despite having the constant want of new gadgets and knowing that my upgrade it going to be proper fun to play with (planning to get the T-Mobile MDA Compact II), I still look at my old bits and pieces with an intense want to use them (the A800 is locked to Orange and the Cliés battery is shot to death), even though I know theyd hack me off within hours if I could. Sigh.
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Reply #1 on: March 20, 2006, 23:53:03 PM
Tbh, when I think phone, this allways comes to mind.



Nokia 3310.  Pretty much bomb proof also.

Ive still got my first phone a siemens C45 in a draw.  Just has a cracked LCD screen.  That was from when I was glad i still had it when my T610 had to go in for warranty covered repair.
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Reply #2 on: March 20, 2006, 23:56:31 PM
Its pretty cool how they got Michaelangelo to do the screen for the Nokia.

Is that the Sistene model?

/gets hat.
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Reply #3 on: March 20, 2006, 23:56:32 PM
I loved my Nokia 7110 :)

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Reply #4 on: March 20, 2006, 23:57:35 PM
I loved my Sony J5


The first phone to support audio ringtones! :wub: [wheres the wub smilie  :shock:]
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Reply #5 on: March 20, 2006, 23:59:22 PM
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I loved my Nokia 7110 :)



Ah... matrix style :)

My dad used to have one.

I personally get urges to play my binatone (pong) machine, and my frogger thingy console (think it was called a maxivision?). Oh and urges to build computers from spare old gear, and urges to use my older mobile phones purely to see if they saved any numbers or texts :D I think one of my old ones has quite a few NSFPTS (not safe for parents to see) texts. :D lol
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Reply #6 on: March 21, 2006, 00:01:32 AM
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Ah... matrix style :)


Youll want one of these then. :)

http://www.mobile-review.com/review/samsung-matrix-en.shtml
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Reply #7 on: March 21, 2006, 00:01:48 AM
I have a k700i somewhere in my room, not needed now i got a k750i

k700i is still better than the majority of the phones on the market

i also have an old md walkman, only a couple of years old but since i got an mp3 it just isnt needed, one of the nice bits of tech i have come across

got all sorts of consoles at home that i love but it is just awkward to play them, finding and connecting them for a quick play is a nightmare
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Reply #8 on: March 21, 2006, 00:05:43 AM
I forgot to mention my A800 has the best Dr Who ringtone I have every known on it, plus some other brilliant-sounding ones, with no way to transfer them to any other phone, or even listen to them. Sigh!
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Reply #9 on: March 21, 2006, 00:10:20 AM
OK, time to get geeky. The Nokia 7110 was released after The Matrix because everyone wanted a cool phone that sprung open when you pressed the button (including me - still have it too). The actual phones in The Matrix were modified Nokia 8110s, which originally had a manual slide. They added the "ching" opening for the film.

Im pretty sure the 7110 was that pealescent metallic green as a nod to the filters used throughout the film.

Naughtily hotlinked image:


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Reply #10 on: March 21, 2006, 00:12:40 AM
Sara, your "Old" Clie is rather newer than my "new" Palm IIIxe!

only difference, the IIIxe uses AAA batteries, no in built Li-Ion 3year time limit.
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Reply #11 on: March 21, 2006, 00:42:58 AM
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I loved my Sony J5


The first phone to support audio ringtones! :wub: [wheres the wub smilie  :shock:]


Banging phone, that was my first one.  My new T-Mobile MDA Compact II arrives tomorrow, so my phone history will look like:



 8)
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Reply #12 on: March 21, 2006, 02:05:14 AM
My phone history is as follows.




1. Motorola C520
2. Sony Ericsson T20e
3. Nokia 5510
4. Nokia 8310
5. Sony Ericsson T610
6. Sony Ericsson K700i
7. Sony Ericsson W550i

Even went to the length of making sure I got the right colour in the pics :) those are my exact phones including colouring :D lol.
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Reply #13 on: March 21, 2006, 02:31:34 AM
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Tbh, when I think phone, this allways comes to mind.



Nokia 3310.  Pretty much bomb proof also.


Im using one ATM, got a pair of new batteries for a £1 each at Tescos.

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Sara, your "Old" Clie is rather newer than my "new" Palm IIIxe!

only difference, the IIIxe uses AAA batteries, no in built Li-Ion 3year time limit.

I have both a IIIe and a Clie, the latter has a *much* higher resolution screen, often this causes problems with programs. You should also be able to use rechargeable AAA batteries in any III.
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Reply #14 on: March 21, 2006, 03:18:48 AM


This superb phone did me proud for more than 5 years before it got dropped one too many times and started switching off mid conversation.
Nokia 6210 (Mine was the Orange 6210e) :roll:  8)
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