What was that phone? • Non-Gaming • Mobile Phones • Eurogamer.net

MrWorf 13 Nov 2014 22:22:03 64,187 posts
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Any body remember a tiny monochrome flip phone from the 90's/00's? I think it was by motorola or ericsson. It's not the T28 or StarTac. It had a tiny battery, like the size of a domino.

Cheers.

edit: ignore me, it probably was the T28, but it looked smaller. :/ My memory is probably distorted.

Edited by Razz at 22:28:14 13-11-2014

Fake_Blood 13 Nov 2014 22:26:27 11,093 posts
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T10 maybe, had a yellow one myself.

iancognito 13 Nov 2014 22:27:55 2,476 posts
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Ericsson 768? Or was it more flip than that?

MrWorf 13 Nov 2014 22:29:23 64,187 posts
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Nah those phones are too bulky. it looked really flimsy, but kind of futuristic for the time. It was really thin and small, it was probably the T28, or a variant of it

Edited by Razz at 22:31:39 13-11-2014

iancognito 13 Nov 2014 22:37:10 2,476 posts
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That style of phone is called a clamshell if you want to google it. Motorola made one called the Pebl and the Razr which were similar.

CosmicFuzz 13 Nov 2014 22:37:37 32,632 posts
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The RAZR one from Motorola?

elstoof 13 Nov 2014 22:38:57 28,125 posts
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A colleague of mine gives himself much amusement by seeing how much of his nonsense Vodafone will put up with, he's on some Mickey mouse sim only contract but complains his way to free upgrades. He's made a real art out of it.

Anyway, his last play was for a new Nokia handset, but he had to trade his previous freebie in. He didn't want to do that so gave them an old T28 he found in a drawer, unscrewed the antennae to make it look more "modern" and handed it over to the courier with a straight face.

I think he even kept the battery.

Edited by elstoof at 22:42:46 13-11-2014

Immaterial 13 Nov 2014 22:40:18 2,626 posts
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Was it Enemy Mine?

MrWorf 13 Nov 2014 22:42:25 64,187 posts
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iancognito wrote:
That style of phone is called a clamshell if you want to google it. Motorola made one called the Pebl and the Razr which were similar.

Nope, those phones are way too new, it had a monochrome screen, no camera and a stubby aerial.

BigOrkWaaagh 13 Nov 2014 22:43:00 10,554 posts
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Motorola V50? I had one, it was ace.

MrWorf 13 Nov 2014 22:43:40 64,187 posts
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Oh nad Clamshell and flip is interchangable

MrWorf 13 Nov 2014 22:45:09 64,187 posts
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BigOrkWaaagh wrote:
Motorola V50? I had one, it was ace.

I had one for a while too!

Neat little phone that was, but alas that was it, it had a flatter design.

elstoof 13 Nov 2014 22:46:34 28,125 posts
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I lie, it was a Motorola m301

MrWorf 13 Nov 2014 22:48:16 64,187 posts
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Hehe, that was my first phone. I got it on a 12 month contract