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Tuesday Feb 05, 2008

Mobile history

A recent thread in the Volunteering and Activism forum on our discussion boards about recycling old mobile phones for charity reminded me of how many I’ve owned since my first Motorola model in the year 2000. It’s actually a scary number and unfortunately due to loss, theft and breakage I haven’t been able to recycle every mobile I’ve had over eight years.

All this has got me thinking. If you’re a serial mobile owner like me, you’re bound to feel a sense of nostalgia when you think back to your old phones and what you were doing with your life when you owned them. This is 21^st Century nostalgia for sure. A mobile phone history of just eight years already spans enormous technological changes, but each phone has a human story too. My first phone was a birthday present from my parents and I remember being embarrassed because it was already an outdated Motorola brick compared to my college friend’s new Vodafone models. My third phone was a Nokia 3210 brought as a Christmas present from my first serious boyfriend. I remember him telling me that phones weren’t going to get much better than that model!

Mobile phone history is already something that’s been picked up on in the Net & Tech forum on TheSite.org and it’s really interesting to see which brands and models have fared better than others. I bet you can see a few of your own in there.

Posted by Helen ( 1:48 PM ) Link to this post  |  Comments[0]