[Closed] What's the best mobile phone you've ever had?

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Pre-smartphone days, I loved my little 6510. It was an 8310 (successor to the 8210 above) for all practical purposes, but with a slightly more subdued colour scheme I believe aimed at the corporate market.

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I never had one, but the 6310i is one of the best phones Nokia ever made. Battery life of about a year and a half, and an outsized antenna array that could get a signal where most others couldn't.

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Nokia 3210, 3310 or 3410.

Nokia 6310 hands down.

10 days battery. It was a badass too - ran it over on my bike twice, dropped it down wooden stairs.

And snakes. Nuff said.

sony ericsson w800
Still got one in the drawer somewhere. Turned it on after it's been off for 3 years and the battery was still on 2 bars!

Nokia 5210. Kept charged with a PAYG SIM on a different network to my main phone. Just in case...

The 6310i is one of the best phones Nokia ever made.

Agree. It was my favorite non-smart phone. Still have it a drawer somewhere, while most others have been sold/traded in.

The SE W810i was also a good little phone. Mine proved to be very robust.

Had a little Panasonic on Cellnet. It was tiny and is still the smallest phone I've ever owned. I sent an SMS saying "Hello" to my friend Jilly (who was also on Cellnet) a few months before the SMS function had been advertised. I think it cost around 50p when I looked at my bill.

I liked the 8210 but although larger in footprint the 6610 just one as it was thinner. Colour screen was pointless though.
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Good point, the 6310i was an amazingly well-built phone. Felt like the pinnacle of build quality/features at the time.

It wasn't clam-shell though 😉

Nokia 5110 for me...

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...with Kick as the ringtone 8)

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Nokia 6822. I was a beast at texting. Plus it was a meaningful performance changing to "text mode".

Either my first, tougher than anything!
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Or this one, foolishly given to Mrs CFH. Miles better than the S4 I replaced it with.

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Razr, original of course.

the 6310i was an amazingly well-built phone

I think a large part of the quality build feel of this phone was due to the lack of changeable fashion covers that were so prevalent at that time.

[i]I never had one, but the 6310i is one of the best phones Nokia ever made. Battery life of about a year and a half, and an outsized antenna array that could get a signal where most others couldn't.[/i]

Yep, got one the first month they came out (justified with my Boss as I'd taken on Europe as well as the UK), I used one (had 4 over time) until 2010 - with a Nokia E71, which I still use.

More love for the Nokia 8210 here too.

But one phone I would love right now is the über-simple [url= http://www.johnsphones.com/store/johns-phone-white/item24 ]John's Phone[/url]

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Agreed about the 6310i. Legendary phone.

Had a Nokia 5210 (builders phone - in fact I had several) for robustness, could be, and were, dropped and bounced without being affected. Initially had the 8210 as well, with a soft case - went in a pocket on the Camelbak.

Nothing since has quite been the same t my mind, some lacklustre Nokia and now a 4S..

In many ways, the little Nokia 8210, it was a nice pocket size, and the case could be replaced cheaply, and custom painted.
For longevity, the SE K750i which I had, then gave to a mate. He was using it up until last weekend, when I gave him my old iPhone 3G, it must have been getting on for eight or nine years old. Crap charging system, though.
More recently, my iPhone 4. Still using it, mainly as an iPod, with a 3 SIM in it for using Shazam, but I just love its solid, chunky feel, there's nothing really flimsy about it, just a nice little black slab of tech.

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Stupid proof! 😀

It wasn't clam-shell though

Only Gibbs can pull off the clam-shell flip and still look cool 😀

Only Gibbs can pull off the clam-shell flip and still look cool

I had that waterproof one! Was good fun putting it in pints and what not. The minutes flew by. I liked my 8310, although the 8210 seemed the biggest change.

There've been differently good phones. I guess the iPhone 3G for really changing things. I had a Nokia N70 before, so was used to 'smart' phones, the iPhone was something else.

meh. my current htc one s. phones didn't become properly useful until they did interweb stuff properly...

I still have a 6310i with four batteries that I used regularly on expeditions and big days out with groups, and still comes out on river paddling days. It has been on the bottom of the river Tay, I dropped it mid call to my boss, I reached dow, picked it up and finished my call and carried on. Brilliant signal finding ability as well.

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I had the this exact model / colour. Great phone:

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+1 for the 5110 (5111 then... I'll get ma coat)

bullet proof & simple. Still got one somewhere plus all of the in-car installation kit. Used to have several pukka nokia hands free kits I'd been given for nowt, I fitted it into my Land Rovers and when I was going anywhere really filthy I'd swap the sim from my "posh" phone into the 5110. Therefore I wasn't too bothered if the phone got dropped into a puddle lost etc.

The other advantage was that the 5110 had an external antenna socket so when fitted it into the cradle you got a hell of a lot better signal when you were in a remote area - pretty sure the box of tricks had a signal amplifier - you could have no signal as a portable yet 3-4 bars when in the cradle. i don't care what the manufacturers say about internal antennas, when you are in remote rural areas there is no substitute for metal in the air on the roof of a vehicle for a better signal.

I WISH that someone produced a ruggedised non-smart phone that still featured an antenna socket.

i had a ericson T28, liked it too

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Motorola 8700

Been known to survive falls from 3 stories.

But having said that, my current Motorola Milestone 2 is annoyingly persistent, surviving many soakings, falling out of my pocket onto tarmac at 30mph, and getting run over.

I think Ive had nearly everyone of the phones so far posted!
Nokia 5110 was my first
Then the T28
a 5210
a 6310
an 8210 at some point
then into the world of "Smartphones" coming to an HTC Legend - solid little chappie.

At their time most were great things to have.
And of course I think my current phone (Nexus 4) is the nuts.

Its amazing where the tech has come to. Anyone remember things like this Handspring (I had one)
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Always liked this one very slim and a metal body. I always got a Nokia upgrade as they were pretty fool proof to use.
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Can I fourth the Sony Ericsson T28. Tough as old boots, small, and when you program the voice dial for the taxi firm as "beam me up Scotty" in conjunction with the flip activated voice dial you could entertain yourself when needing a taxi from the pub!

The Nexus 4 I am using now destroys it in every department other than battery life and size though...

Galaxy Note 2 that got destroyed when I got knocked off my bike by a car.

Gotta say I'm surprised by the number of technological luddites.

Motorola razr in black with the polished keypad.

Lovely slim phone with a great keypad.

Other than that the Sony Ericsson camera phones were good too

I can't believe how many of those I've owned. I guess that's what happens when contracts were only 12 months long.

Anyway, big fan of 8210 but my best ever was Sony Ericsson w810i. Brilliant little phone. Bomb proof, but not washing machine proof sadly as my wife found out after I gave it to her and she left it in her pocket. I 'upgraded' to a W950i which was total garbage and really buggy.

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Galaxy Note 2 that got destroyed when I got knocked off my bike by a car.

Gotta say I'm surprised by the number of technological luddites.

We're talking "non smart" phones Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam

Loved the original startac but never had the slim battery, it was replaced before my upgrade time, but the razr original was just so nice to use, far preferred it to my iphone 5 I'm typing this on.
Had a few nokias before moving to the Sony Ericsson stuff that had a camera, as an attachment that clipped into the bottom of the phone. Witchcraft I tell thee!

Edit Sony Ericsson t68i - can't post a picture

Feeling the love for the Nokia 8s - harking back to the day when businessmen would brag about whose was smallest...

Nokia 6310 hands down.

10 days battery. It was a badass too - ran it over on my bike twice, dropped it down wooden stairs.

And snakes. Nuff said.

Dropped mine down the toilet when pissed. Two days on the radiator with the battery and sim card out and it worked again.

I miss the old nokias.

Nokia 5100.
Bloody tough, waterproofish.
Very, very small screen.

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Still got it somewhere. 🙂

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The scrolly thing on the side really should have caught on, made menu surfing really, really fast.

Mine died when I accidentally gave it a warm wash and short spin :'(

I seem to have had most of those. 6310i indestructible and clearly running on a cold fusion reaction. A 52xx that came with a belt clip. Ah the days of swinging your phone off your hips. We were cool kids. Possibly. And the Silver clamshell Nokia. It was the first voice activated phone I'd ever seen.

I used to shout 'LAGER' at it and it'd call my drinking buddy. I never got bored of that 🙂

Apparently - might be urban myth - those 6210/6310 now trade on eBay for more than they originally sold for. I could go and look, but I want to preserve the mystery 😉

oh oh oh the 5100 With the temperature gauge. And a tiny torch. Ah fellas you've made a happy man very old this evening 🙂

jaaaaaaaaaam - Member
Galaxy Note 2 that got destroyed when I got knocked off my bike by a car.

Gotta say I'm surprised by the number of technological luddites.

Pretty sure that your phone is the only one posted that wouldn't survive a crash, or wouldn't last about a week without charging. As a phone, are you sure your phablet's that great?

Yeah. Give the luddites a bit of respect. Backintheday(tm) it was a blooming technological breakthrough when not only did the CLI come through BUT your phone matched it to an internal directory. It was like elven magic. No really it was. Maybe you had to be there 😉

One of my first phones had the keypad on one side by the speaker and mic on the other. I wish I could remember what it was called. Never seen one before or since.

Funny you mention it, I've just dug my old 6500 out of a drawer to see if it's worth resurrecting as a saddlebag phone:

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Loved this thing. Was never packed full of features, but it worked perfectly. In fact I've never found a phone that's worked properly since. Or doesn't annoy me in some way. I've even hunted around for this one, but it must've been chucked out.

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Favourite phone - I had a couple of Sony Ericsson flip phones; T20e and then it's colour screen replacement with attachment camera that took 640x480 pics.

Worst phone - Motorola Razr. Had one as a work phone. All about the looks, but rubbish to use.

The 6310 is still the phone I compare all others to, it just worked and well. My old man still uses one and has a stockpile of spares and spare batteries so he won't have to figure out how to use a new phone for a few years.

I used to change my phones every few months as I worked in the industry and whilst certain ones were great for various things,such as Sony CMD-MZ5 or Siemens SL45 of music the Samsung A400 and the Benefon Q for size, the Nokia 8*** range and the Sony CMD-Z1 for looks, the 6310 is the king in my mind of all phones up until the current smartphone ranges, now if one of them had the battery of a 6310 or even half as good they would be on to a winner.

6310i definitely the best, by a large margin, but I still have a soft spot for my original Nokia Orange
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Loved the pared-down look of it, and the fact that you could programme your own ringtone melody, in the days before sampled ringtones became [i]de rigeur[/i].

Allowing smartphones, favourite phone of all time though is the iPhone4. No contest. One of my favourite THINGS of all time, never mind phones.

N95 was the first one that made me think that phones could do more than just, well, phone. After trying to browse internet and write emails on little Nokias, the N95 made it easy and had WiFi and GPS too. It was a long way from perfect but better than the first android phones I had later. Symbian was rubbish though.

I had a 3310 for years and years because it was tough, great battery life and you could text with 2 thumbs at a quite frightening speed even accounting for the reduced set of digit buttons for texting

The other great phone is the one I'm typing on right now; a nexus 4. I really can't see what extra a galaxy 5 or similar would buy me really

Nokia N95 was the best phone I've had..
Loved my Razr tho..
But the N95 for the music, camera etc etc..

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Great phone with an amazing camera - really miss it even after several newer smart phones

Sony c905 btw

well about 1995/96 I had my first mob phone, before any of my mates or family

had an Motorolla Mr20
with a spare massive battery

I loved my Ericsson SH 888 because it had a built in modem and infra red connection port. That meant I could get onto the tinterweb with it through my Psion series 5.

I could send faxes, write "word" documents, surf porn. I couldn't email anyone though because nobody had email addresses then.

All that in 1998, it was a sort of DIY smart phone with the Psion.

Loved my 8310, had a jack daniels cover on it, ahhh 6th form days.

Always wanted a 6310, but because I wasn't in sales or middle management I couldnt afford one.

I had a siemens C35(?) for a while, text the same girl so much the numbers wore off the buttons, didn't get anywhere though.

All in all though apart from the battery life my Galaxy S3 is the best I've had so far, even if it does looks pathetic and effeminate.

I had the SH888 too, had no idea it had a modem. Feel like I've missed out!

Siemens M65 was my first camera phone & was pretty bombproof as well. Lost it under a lawn sprinkler for a couple of hours one night.

Suppose it needs at least one mention. But erm the moto g. every other phone I've had has just been a frustrating wait until cheapness caught up with technology for me.

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This was my first mobile - the Nokia 2110 - still have it in a drawer somewhere.

The best pre-smartphone mobile I had was a Nokia 6210 which was the predecessor of the 6310 and did not have Bluetooth.

When I changed jobs and was given an Ericsson I was really miffed as the Nokia was just so easy to use.

First ever phone was a Motorola MR10
What a technological marvel. On my 15min orange talk plan, and nobody i knew had a mobile at the time. I was like royalty!

N95 was the first one that made me think that phones could do more than just, well, phone. After trying to browse internet and write emails on little Nokias, the N95 made it easy and had WiFi and GPS too. It was a long way from perfect but better than the first android phones I had later. Symbian was rubbish though.

Teetosugars - Member
Nokia N95 was the best phone I've had..
Loved my Razr tho..
But the N95 for the music, camera etc etc..

It wasn't clam-shell though

Nokia massively blew it with Clam Shells - they missed the flippy phone boat by a year and went from being the best selling phones in the world to not even being the best selling phones in Finland as a result.

I really liked my old n73 - reasonably smart but still candy-bar sized. But really my old ip4 is the best phone i've had simply because its stayed operational for twice as long as any other phone I've owned and, unlike all the other phones I've owned previously, it hasn't filled up with dust, which all the nokias I've had, even the supposedly rugged nokias like the 5210, were terrible for.

The old Razr was good - properly strong and hardwearing as well as pretty but massively let down by have the enter and cancel buttons back to front. So nice as an ornament now that I don't actually use it for anything.

Ahead of its time for me - decent screen and internet capable before many thought it affordable:

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Sony Ericsson k800i surely wins this

such an amazing camera and decent music player too!

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Jedimaster has it although mine was ?750i

Sony Ericsson C902. I still have it and use it in the shop.

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Worst phone was the one I replaced it with - my first smartphone. A Nokia N97 Mini. It wasn't very smart 🙁

My first phone was a Ericsson PF768 which was the daddy of the T28 that arrived 2 years later in 98 , I then went to a p800 touchscreen in 2002 which was an amazing PDA style phone and a smartphone granddaddy
Went through all the early Sony Ericsson phones as they tended to have the best cameras and also flashes before most others until the iphone came along and I am still a convert now
The PF768 was a brilliant little phone though -so tiny compared to most bricks people had back in the mid to late nineties, texting was a pain though as it was a single line screen

The first of the breed - a total game changer. Changed how my tiny world worked.

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Great phone with an amazing camera - really miss it even after several newer smart phones

Sony c905 btw

loved the camera on mine so good.

I'm shocked at just how many of these phones I've had, but had forgotten about !

Daffy,

...In terms of a phone, [b]smart-features irrelevant.[/b]

Another vote for the 6310i here. Battery lasts for over a week (never bothered taking a charger away on any trip lasting up to a week) and in extreme circumstances you can use it to fend off attackers.

Have three in a drawer at home. Got to the point hwre I had to take them apart every three or four months to clean the screen of the dust so I could read it - think the rubber keypads were perishing or something. Sitll got at least one 8210i in a drawer as well

Nokia 6300

Still got one in the cupboard for emergencies.

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followed by the 6310i, 7110, i used to love the old ericcson phones too