Old Mobiles — the Bad and the Ugly

CrazyPhrog writes "File under nostalgia? This round up of mobile hardware from days of yore includes the Dynatac ("the world's first proper mobile phone"), which looks like something likely clamped to Joan Collins' cheek in an episode of Dynasty; the frankly violent-on-the-eye jade T10, courtesy of a pre-Sony Ericsson; and the unwonderful Siemens Xelibri which looks as if it was designed to give simultaneous ear, eye and finger ache. Thankfully they really don't make 'em like they used to."

Comments

Dynatac... Joan Collins?? WTF?

[BadAnalogyGuy]

You obviously mean the Zack Morris Phone.

Post v2:

I long for those days of simplicity! Today's phones with automatic cell handover and features (!) like mail and SMS and ringtones are useless! Give me a 12 pound block of plastic that makes calls intermittently. I'm not giving up my current phone until they can come up with something worthy enough to replace it.

Re:Dynatac... Joan Collins?? WTF?

[Anonymous Coward]

I, for one, welcome our Zack Morris ASCII overlords.
$:)[]

Re:Dynatac... Joan Collins?? WTF?

[Professor_UNIX]

For ages, I've been using the Nokia 3589i.

Jesus Christ, they have phones with color displays now? I really need to get with the times.

Talktime?

[welshwaterloo]

"...first came onto the market in 1984 costing nearly $4,000 and promising around a half an hour of talk time."

Wow.. over 20 years later & we've nearly doubled the amount of talk time...!
Yay, progress!

Re:Talktime?

[Mr2cents]

At least the battery doesn't have its own suitcase anymore..

Re:Talktime?

[welshwaterloo]

At least the battery doesn't have its own suitcase anymore..

Nope - just a teeny bluetooth fire extinguisher.. :)

If you can't club a seal to death with it

[tttonyyy]

...I'm not interested.

Nothing wrong with lugging a big lead-acid about with you wherever you go. Right? Hello? Anyone there?

Re:Link is Slashdotted

[Kenshin]

You're asking the wrong crowd for a mirror. One's personal appearance isn't considered with this group.

New Motorola

[Anonymous Coward]

My new Motorola FCKZOR has everything I need:

1) Camera
2) MP3 player
3) Browser
4) Games
5) GPS navigation system
6) Radar
7) Television
8) Microwave oven
9) CD/DVD player

Unfortunately, since it is so fashionably thin, there was no space to fit a microphone and I am unable to make calls.

I know! I know!

[hummassa]

Interestingly, my old Archos GMini died without much dropping at all (in a strange coincidence, it died right after I bought my iPod...). Depends really.It died of sadness...