Ten Phones In Ten Years

While thinking about upgrading my cell phone I happened upon the realization that I’ve had many, many phones. I then had to count my phones and think about how each one seemed like a new marvel in technology when I got it, but then seemed old and outdated when I replaced it.


Ericsson SH888
My first cell phone was a hand me down from my dad. We activated it as a prepaid phone with Cellular One in 2000/2001. I was old when I got it and quite frankly sucked.


Nokia 5110
Everyone had this Nokia. It was a solid phone with the easily changeable custom face places. This was my first contracted phone and thus was free (what a concept back in 2001!) A few months after I got it Cellular One was consumed by AT&T Wireless.


Panasonic EB-TX310
To date, I believe this is still the smallest, thinnest phone I have ever owned! It had programmable ring tones, changeable color backlights and a speakerphone! The sad part about this phone is that a month after the year warranty expired it just stopped working. It was completely awesome up to that point.


Nokia 3310
My replacement phone when the Panasonic died. It was cheap and easy. Not a bad phone, much like the 5110 above, but I wanted better…


Nokia 6800
…And better I got! This beauty was pretty awesome with it’s fold out QWERTY keyboard and a little joystick for games and navigation (which I was always scared I was going to break!)


Motorola i860
Having been fed up with AT&T I switched to Nextel (what the hell was I thinking?) This phone had a cool little trigger button that made the phone flip up like a switch blade. It was also my first camera phone. It wasn’t too bad as phones go, but when Nextel was married off to Sprint I jumped ship and left this phone behind.


Samsung SGH-T629
Ahh, sliders. The newest thing to make basic phones cool. I couldn’t afford an iPhone so I got this bad puppy with T-mobile.


BlackBerry 7280
With my need for connectivity and tech increasing, I bought this guy off eBay for something like $25. It was old, used and beat up but I was able to get email and surf the web!


BlackBerry 8700c
About a month after I got the 7280 off eBay I found this handsome devil for $5 more. He was still used but less beat up and had a much better screen.


HTC G1
My prize in the list of phones! The very first Google Android phone. It’s been an awesome phone and I really want to get another Android phone.

So there we have it, ten phones in ten years. Kind of cool how ten years has shaped mobile technology. It makes you wonder what will be available ten years from now...