The other morning I was riding the bus to work when it occurred to me that this is my TENTH year as a cell phone user! My, does time ever fly! I was thinking back on all of the different phones I’ve attached to my hip over those years – the good and the bad – when I thought that it would be neat to review each one of them in a post: My experiences with each, the nitty-gritty, the emotional attachment (le sigh!), etc. So switch your cell onto silent, and read on… 
Removable faceplate?! Oh my!
Specs:
2G Network, GSM 900, Announced 1998 (mine acquired 2001)
132 x 47.5 x 31mm, 143 cubic cm, 170 grams (approx weight of a can of tuna)
Monochrome graphics, 5 text lines (Dynamic font sizes, Softkey, Welcome message)
Downloadable Monophonic ringtones, 6 ringtone levels, 10 volume levels
Memory: Phonebook: Sim only; Call records:8 dialed, 5 received, 5 missed
Battery: Ultra Slim Battery: 600 mAh, Li-Polymer, 127 g; 40-180h standby, 2-3h20m talk OR Slim Battery: 900 mAh, Li-Ion, 143 g, 60-270h standby, 3-5h talk
Features: SMS messaging, 3 games (Memory, Snake, Logic), Removable faceplates, Alarm, comes in 28 languages
Awe, my first phone. It was an upgraded Christmas gift when I turned sixteen. I initially received a VCR to accompany the 13-inch television I got for my birthday a few weeks before. This phone revolutionized the market for personal mobile devices, and finally made it accessible to a wider range of customers than ever before. We all remember the parodies in sitcoms with the enormous grey cellular phones, heavy and about the size of the original Nintendo Gameboy. Finally there was a compact and portable option for those who wanted to look stylish, important, and tech-savvy. This was a fantastic first phone for me. It’s no-frills, self-explanatory (though I still can’t figure out for the life of me how the logic game works…irony), and customizable. I had two favourite faceplates which I alternated between – a white one with frogs and a shimmering colour-shifting gold-to-fuschia (which reminded me of a sunset). I later was stuck with this phone when my Vbox died. My parents had one until the analog network was phased out and they were forced to upgrade. Just saying. Though the battery life was incredibly exaggerated. Nokia claimed that you could potentially survive eleven days without recharging, whereas overall experience would suggest maybe eleven hours. I’d wager that the charge memory on the battery dropped by about 80% within the first year. My parents’ phone was always charged into the cigarette lighter in the car.
Tune in tomorrow for part two, Motorola v101
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