Show Us Your First Cell Phone

Maybe Wyze desires you :old_man::old_woman: old folks :old_person: most. Who knows? :man_shrugging: :grin:

Second person? You’re not including yourself this time?

:wink:

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I’m not the only one holding on to ‘old technology’ and wondering why… [/quote]

I’ve got some stuff I just refuse to part with on principle. Some old Cisco networking stuff I used, that quite honestly I’ve forgotten more about that then I knew to start! I don’t do that stuff any more.

EDACS radios for a protocol that has been EOL’d for a good decade… and these are even older than that!

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My “Museum” Tub produced a few other artifacts that I might start another thread with. [/quote]

Tub… Tub.. Rookie! Try tubS.

Yeah.. I’ve tried that before… and I lost that battle, and war. The Treasure has won…The only way this is winnable is for me to get a new shed/workshop/lab. Which I’ve considered, its a space issue for one thing…some other issues too.

E-Ghad! Now I have to question your sanity.

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I moved about 5 years ago, and finally, reluctantly, sort of… but not really, parted with many items that I needed to divorce myself from :slight_smile:
It used to be Many Tubs.

One interesting set of items that survived that purge:



When phones had character… :slight_smile:

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Some of those are pretty innovative and cool.

Now you can’t even really tell the difference between any 2 phones on the outside. they basically all look like clones of each other. The only real differences are the inside hardware that nobody sees and proprietary software. Especially when a smart phone is in a case now, I have no idea if someone has a $50 phone or a $1300 S25 Ultra or Pixel 9 Pro, or a $3K Huawei Mate XT phone. From the outside they basically all look the same now, but some of those phones had some genius innovation and character!

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I used to have a pair of these when I was young. Range was limited but they were powerless.


Although my model had a longer string on the bottom of the can. Must have had a version 2.

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What does the loop do?

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I think that might be for conference calling. :slight_smile:

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:laughing:

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Man you guys all started high tech. This was my first communication device:

:mouth:
:baby:

Seriously though, the last few posts had me busting up laughing

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Waits to get connected to customer support :laughing:

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Because they’re…stringing you along?!

“BA-DUM-TSS!” —Kevin Malone’s drum sting

Before my car mounted cellular phone I had the older VHF/UHF Mobile phone…

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