My Handset History: 2000-2009

September 23, 2009 Leave a comment

Handset History

So what quantifies me as being mobsessed?

I do not think there is a straight answer to that question, but having over 15 phones in 9 years certainly goes great lengths to contributing towards it. Below you will see a rather lovely visual representation of my mobile handset history. These are the phones that stick out for me one way or another (plus there are some I cannot remember!) however the bigger impact they had on me as a mobile user, the bigger they are represented on the diagram.

As you can see, I was a bit of a Nokia fan boy throughout my teens, however as the early signs of the smartphone emerged, I wanted to be part of it. After playing with the Hero however, I get the impression I may be an Android convert for good!

Feel free to link to your own mobile handset history in the comments below. Do you have any fond memories of any of the following handsets, or even have support for the ones I have slated?

The History of Carl Martin and Mobiles

Posted by Carl

4 Responses to this post

  1. Rob Hawkes said on September 23, 2009

    It’s interesting to see that you pretty much used the same few phones as me up to the 8310. After that I moved onto Sony Ericsson phones and didn’t change brand again until the iPhone lured me in. I have to admit that after seeing the HTC Hero I could be swayed again when I upgrade in January.

  2. J Raydan said on September 24, 2009

    There is no such thing as an iPhone 2G… it goes iPhone, iPhone3G, iPhone 3GS…. so, I am not sure which one you end up hating so much ;-)

    We don’t have HTC Heroes here, but I wouldn’t mind having a spin with it.

  3. Carl said on September 24, 2009

    The intention was to show it was the original iPhone, as I didnt want people to think I had a 3G and hated it as I have had no experience with it.

    The Hero rules big time, think you would like it, maybe even develop for it too!

  4. Andew Grill said on June 21, 2010

    Wow – I must have been a really early starter.

    My mobile journey was (not in exact order – going from memory here)

    1994 – Nokia N1000 (AMPS phone in Australia)
    Motorola Flare (what a dog of a phone)
    Nokia 2110
    Nokia 2110i
    Nokia 6110
    Nokia 6310
    Nokia 8110
    Nokia 7110
    Nokia 8310 (lost on the Bangkok railway shuttle)
    XDA I
    XDA II
    HTC JazJar
    Nokia E61
    Nokia E61i
    Nokia E71
    Nokia N79
    Nokia E72 (I currently have 2 of these)

    Andrew Grill
    @andrewgrill
    http://www.LondonCalling.mobi

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