My age is now 39 years and will complete 40 years this year.
In my entire life I have used only 14 mobiles.
Yesterday I got my new mobile Intex Cloud Tread and then decided to update this further.
I felt I should update this in a blog post and so this post.
First I saw a mobile being used in 1997 (age 20) in Cinema theater at Hyderabad.
I saw Hutch (Orange) billboards in Mumbai in 2000 year.
But I came to have a mobile in 2002 when talk time was too expensive (like 20 rupees per minute).
Large scale mobile use was seen only when I reached Chennai in 2002. Like I saw mobile ads in billboards. And the ever pervading influence became evident.
Now is the age of touch screen and smartphones.
I must say I never have used Pager and never seen large scale pager use in my life. But pager is technology where a person would be paged and he would call back perhaps using a landline that was before advent of mobiles.
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Mobile No. 1
First mobile used was Nokia 3310. This the iconic mobile which they are planning to reintroduce.
I have used this from January 2002 till March 2002.
This was given by my father and I remember in one talk I consumed all the talktime and I have never recharged it. That was in 2002.
Then again used the same phone from June 2004 till April 2005.
When I came to Bengaluru in 2004 I took a GSM number (which I am still using today) and I inserted that SIM into this phone.
Current Status:
This phone was handed back to my father (April 2005) and it probably ended up as scrap and not in my possession anymore
Money Spent on the phone for Acquisition : NIL ( As was provided by my father)
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Mobile 2
Second Mobile I used was Nokia 2280.
This I used from January 2004 till June 2004.
This was a Reliance CDMA phone which my father gave to me. The phone came with the connection.
Current Status:
This phone was handed back to my father (June 2004) who gave it to my sister and water got inside it and it probably ended up as scrap and not in my possession anymore.
Money Spent on the phone for Acquisition : NIL ( As was provided by my father)
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Mobile 3
Third mobile I have used was Sony Ericsson T230.
This mobile I ordered through Sify Shopping from Chennai.
I sent Cheque and they sent the phone.
Phone was very cute one. But no FM radio or Camera.
I used it from April 2005 till May 2007.
Current Status:
This phone was handed to my father (May 2007) and it probably ended up as scrap and not in my possession anymore.
Money Spent on the phone for Acquisition : Rs 6000 approximately.
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Mobile 4
Fourth mobile was LG RD 6230
This phone also came along with Reliance CDMA connection.
I came to know that GSM Sim can be put in any phone. But CDMA phones were different and could only be activated or deactivated by the mobile company.
This phone had a camera and I clicked many pictures with it.
I handed it back to my father when he needed it back.
I was using it parallely with my GSM phone from August 2006 till January 2007
Current Status:
This phone was handed to my father (January 2007) and he used it for time but ultimately it probably ended up as scrap and not in my possession anymore.
Money Spent on the phone for Acquisition : NIL ( As was provided by my father). But for Activation I had to Pay money at Reliance World.
I will continue in another post.
In my entire life I have used only 14 mobiles.
Yesterday I got my new mobile Intex Cloud Tread and then decided to update this further.
I felt I should update this in a blog post and so this post.
First I saw a mobile being used in 1997 (age 20) in Cinema theater at Hyderabad.
I saw Hutch (Orange) billboards in Mumbai in 2000 year.
But I came to have a mobile in 2002 when talk time was too expensive (like 20 rupees per minute).
Large scale mobile use was seen only when I reached Chennai in 2002. Like I saw mobile ads in billboards. And the ever pervading influence became evident.
Now is the age of touch screen and smartphones.
I must say I never have used Pager and never seen large scale pager use in my life. But pager is technology where a person would be paged and he would call back perhaps using a landline that was before advent of mobiles.
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Mobile No. 1
First mobile used was Nokia 3310. This the iconic mobile which they are planning to reintroduce.
This was given by my father and I remember in one talk I consumed all the talktime and I have never recharged it. That was in 2002.
Then again used the same phone from June 2004 till April 2005.
When I came to Bengaluru in 2004 I took a GSM number (which I am still using today) and I inserted that SIM into this phone.
Current Status:
This phone was handed back to my father (April 2005) and it probably ended up as scrap and not in my possession anymore
Money Spent on the phone for Acquisition : NIL ( As was provided by my father)
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Mobile 2
Second Mobile I used was Nokia 2280.
This I used from January 2004 till June 2004.
This was a Reliance CDMA phone which my father gave to me. The phone came with the connection.
Current Status:
This phone was handed back to my father (June 2004) who gave it to my sister and water got inside it and it probably ended up as scrap and not in my possession anymore.
Money Spent on the phone for Acquisition : NIL ( As was provided by my father)
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Mobile 3
Third mobile I have used was Sony Ericsson T230.
I sent Cheque and they sent the phone.
Phone was very cute one. But no FM radio or Camera.
I used it from April 2005 till May 2007.
Current Status:
This phone was handed to my father (May 2007) and it probably ended up as scrap and not in my possession anymore.
Money Spent on the phone for Acquisition : Rs 6000 approximately.
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Mobile 4
Fourth mobile was LG RD 6230
I came to know that GSM Sim can be put in any phone. But CDMA phones were different and could only be activated or deactivated by the mobile company.
This phone had a camera and I clicked many pictures with it.
I handed it back to my father when he needed it back.
I was using it parallely with my GSM phone from August 2006 till January 2007
Current Status:
This phone was handed to my father (January 2007) and he used it for time but ultimately it probably ended up as scrap and not in my possession anymore.
Money Spent on the phone for Acquisition : NIL ( As was provided by my father). But for Activation I had to Pay money at Reliance World.
I will continue in another post.
