Re: My first mobile phone (1992)
I was a little bit late to the party as regards mobiles, mainly due to the cost of running them, so my first mobile (which is sitting beside me now) arrived in about 2001, cost me £180, and is a Nokia 3330 (image of it attached) - basically the classic 3310, but with added 'WAP' text based internet capability. I'm still using the SIM card which came in it in a more modern 'dumb' Nokia phone.
I was still using the 3330 until several years ago when its most recent battery gave out. Batteries for them are still widely advertised but the new ones are all, without exception, Li-ion batteries with the same form factor - this phone pre-dates the common usage of Li-Ion batteries in phones and it can not charge them: Only the original Nicad or NiMH version will do, and they appear to be unobtainium. I have even considered squeezing three 1.2V NiMHs of whatever form factor will fit into the battery compartment, but no suitable cells appear to exist.
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