iPhones aren't that overpriced afterall...

[johnny333]

Zone phones. Or cell phones.
Only when you in the call zones then got signal.
Must use together with pagers. Save the hassle of looking for public phones.

Back then I didn't even own a pager. Unlike today where a handphone is a necessity. Especially if you have a credit cared i.e. for verification purposes.

 

[halsey02]

In those days people were using pagers.

The chant those days...when near to a public phone those days was, "si mi lan car PAGER"!! I saw one back then exiting City Hall MRT Station going Raffles City...on his belt, he has three PAGERS!!:p

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Back then I didn't even own a pager. Unlike today where a handphone is a necessity. Especially if you have a credit cared i.e. for verification purposes.

Yes now even kids can seem to function without a mobile phone....
The other day my friend's office day off because computer server down....
I wondered how people go about working and functioning in the days before the computer and mobile phone

 

[Narong Wongwan]

The chant those days...when near to a public phone those days was, "si mi lan car PAGER"!! I saw one back then exiting City Hall MRT Station going Raffles City...on his belt, he has three PAGERS!!:p

Kopitiam public phone numbers will be dribbled on the wall.
Before alphanumeric pagers people would key in codes.

 

[Devil Within]

That's evolution and technology and economies of scale. Cable internet was expensive when it first came out. Same for CD writers.

Innovation thrives on competitions. Without competitions, cheaper and better solutions are limited. Just look at our transport service sector. You've got economic of scales, and better technology in vehicles and such, but price is getting more and more expensive to travel. On the contrary with air travel, even with rising oil prices and airport taxes, there are airlines offering cheaper prices to chose from.

 

[yellowarse]

That Motorola Startac piece was the in-thing, my 2nd (after handme down Eriksson popular then). And recall some used to wear on their belt.

My 2nd phone was an Ericsson, in 1998:

I stuck with Ericsson through the late '90s and the early noughties even though everyone else got hooked on Nokia.

 

[jw5]

My first cellphone – 1995

My 2nd phone was an Ericsson, in 1998:

I stuck with Ericsson through the late '90s and the early noughties even though everyone else got hooked on Nokia.

Camping here for the 3rd phone.

 

[Cestbon]

My first cellphone – 1995

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Ya la.
No people use brief case anymore. Only stupid will buy brief case in 1995. Unless he want to use very far away from network coverage.

 

[looneytan]

My first handphone

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Yes now even kids can seem to function without a mobile phone....
The other day my friend's office day off because computer server down....
I wondered how people go about working and functioning in the days before the computer and mobile phone

computers are quite old already been in existence for a long time and i mean the PC personal computer.

Just that the internet wasn;t that wide spread in the 90s.

 

[yellowarse]

Camping here for the 3rd phone.

Ha ha ... shall oblige one last time.

My 3rd cellphone – Ericsson T28, 2000. Probably the best Ericsson phone ever made.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Ha ha ... shall oblige one last time.

My 3rd cellphone – Ericsson T28, 2000. Probably the best Ericsson phone ever made.

Looks pretty sleek even today but it was nokia that removed the antenna sticking out. Before nokia phones most phones had those ugly antennas but when nokia became very popular all their models didn't have the antenna and that caught on and now phones don't have that anymore. Do jap phones have antenna?

 

[yellowarse]

Looks pretty sleek even today but it was nokia that removed the antenna sticking out. Before nokia phones most phones had those ugly antennas but when nokia became very popular all their models didn't have the antenna and that caught on and now phones don't have that anymore. Do jap phones have antenna?

Yes, the early Jap phones circa 2000 (Toshiba, Kyocera, Sharp, Panasonic) all had external antennae, which went away when the Japs went crazy on flip cell phones.

One reason why I preferred Ericsson to the Nokia in the early days was its superior reception and transmission. The early Nokia phones with internal antennae had crackly sound reception, especially in 'blind spot' areas.

 

[johnny333]

Yes now even kids can seem to function without a mobile phone....
The other day my friend's office day off because computer server down....
I wondered how people go about working and functioning in the days before the computer and mobile phone

Handphones provide convenience but also bring problems.
I'm going to migrate to a cheaper pre-paid plan. I can top up when I need to. The trouble is that I probably won't be able to take my tel number with me:(

Probably have to get a 2nd handphone with a new number & do a slowly transition to the new number. It's a big headache

 

[yinyang]

My 1st PDA phone by Motorola, 10 years back. Very hardy, dropped no rasa. Also can doodle with stylus then, sms same



Then this wannabe (semi) smart model, just before smartphone era.