Surely Snake should have been on the list of selling points for the Nokia!
My first mobile phone was a Philips Diga, in 1997. The SIM card was the size of a bank card. It was a phone without subscription, calls were £1 per minute.
For me, Argos will forever go hand in hand with Bill Bailey
I can smell the page through the screen
I had the Phillips Savvy. It was my first phone.
My first phone was that Motorola
Loved being able to listen to the radio on it
That Savvy was my first phone! I still remember that joyful little text tone.
I deffo stared at this in 2001….
As a kid did anyone else use to go through the Argos catalogue deciding everything they’d buy if they were a millionaire/money was no issue? I seemingly had no idea of other stores, just this magic catalog where I could fantasise owning EVERYTHING.
I was 10 and had no friends but desperately wanted a mobile phone anyway
That Phillips one was my first phone. Felt like a big boy going to secondary school with my £40 phone.
Ha! I owned the Siemens and upgraded to the Sony! Felt proper flash when I did, that Sony could hold like, 10 text messages! Pretty sure the Siemens didn’t have a phone book either – although that might have been the older model.
£100 for a 3310 is a bargain. Probably have one sitting around with a half charge of battery left.
God, but I loved my Nokia 3310. I’m that sad that I collect them now. I know, *sad*. But! I won’t stop until I get my paws on the mighty and rarely-seen all-orange case. It’s apparently rarer than hen’s teeth but I so bloody well want it, LOL.
Do we all remember the optimistically named “Gifts” section (aka, The Tat Your Maiden Aunt In Chelmsford Would Send You)? The various and often horrific porcelain statues? The cringey dragon-holding-a-crystal? *The waterfall-effect LED clock with a totally realistic fantasy setting moulded in plastic and resin?* My sister always begged our mum for one of those weird make-up pyramids. You know, the ones with the cheapo blusher, lipsticks, eyeliner and a hidden lipstick in the apex of the pyramid? *Always* shiny jet-black plastic too. Thankfully our mother refused to buy her one of those but holy hell they were hideously funny.
We had one of those “chipped” Phillips phones, free calls and text. Snake on the Nokia and the monkey game on that sony were great.
Phillips Savvy was my first phone
god damn I miss going to argos, looking through the catalogue in the shop with each page of goodness laminated. the little pen and paper getting the number down and then they brought out that little blue and yellow machine so I could check if it was in stock before actually writing it down and going over to the glorious wall of goodness feeling like I’m playing the generation game seeing all the items go passed on the conveyor belt and seeing my stuff come over the edge at the top.
That Philips phone was the first mobile I owned. I bought it in 1999, and it was on the BT Cellnet network. I remember the character limit for text messages was very short. It was often the case that I would have to send more than one text to say what I wanted.
Ah… Siemens C35. My first phone.
Ahh, fond memories of working as a service troll at Argos as a teenager around that time. The customers trying to return consoles (not allowed!) who’d put bricks in the box to try and trick us; the days the conveyor belt would break so we’d just fling stuff down it into pillows at the bottom; and having to work the Elizabeth Duke counter cos some bird was ill and not having a single clue about anything in that part of the laminated book of dreams. Good times.
I bought my then girlfriend her first mobile, the Phillips Savvy, for her birthday from that edition!
What a crazy memory unlocked, I remember sitting on the sofa with her and she was looking at the phones in the Argos book.
Nokia 3310 for me is one of those legendary design items. So functional and iconic.
And doing a one inch snake that filled the entire screen so amazing
Our wedding present list (1993) was things cut out of an Argos book. We cut out all the things we would like, stuck one item per page in a cheap notebook, and then passed it round people who asked for it, they then would pick something they wanted to buy for us and rip the page out and hand the notebook back. Now people just go online and order from the couples wedding list.
Prime toilet material
Siemens C35e was my first phone. Trying to be different from everyone else getting the Nokia 3210/3310. I eventually realised the crowd was right and the Nokia were better.
The Nokia had voice activated dialling?! I never knew that.
They truly were great phones. I still kind of miss my 5110. And I definitely miss tapping the power button and being able to select silent, discreet, normal (?), or loud. Wish my iPhone had those options.
I’d have to work a whole week at the time to buy one of them.
Writing a list of stuff I would never get was life.
If you bought one of those phones it’s more than likely still intact and usable today.
The prices are interesting – the Nokia costs more than I would have thought. Considering you can still get a half decent mobile today for £100, the Nokia price is certainly premium!
There are entire sections of those old catalogues that are now entirely encapsulated in a modern smartphone; Personal music players, cameras, camcorders, calculators and so on.
Do JustTalk not exist anymore because the younger generation decided they didn’t want to talk at all JustText
These prices are why the old people complain “but these people have mobile phones” when any economic struggles are mentioned. Adjusted for inflation the Nokia must be around 200 pounds and cost 40p a minute to use at peak hours
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In a million years they’ll dig up them Nokias.
“We don’t know what they are, but they still work, and they’re indestructible.”
I’m not sure what’s more obsolete at this point; the phones, or the Argos catalogue
Motorola V2288 was my first phone, I think. It had changeable silicon covers.
Even older ones at https://issuu.com/retromash
I can smell this picture
Surely Snake should have been on the list of selling points for the Nokia!
My first mobile phone was a Philips Diga, in 1997. The SIM card was the size of a bank card. It was a phone without subscription, calls were £1 per minute.
For me, Argos will forever go hand in hand with Bill Bailey
I can smell the page through the screen
I had the Phillips Savvy. It was my first phone.
My first phone was that Motorola
Loved being able to listen to the radio on it
That Savvy was my first phone! I still remember that joyful little text tone.
I deffo stared at this in 2001….
As a kid did anyone else use to go through the Argos catalogue deciding everything they’d buy if they were a millionaire/money was no issue? I seemingly had no idea of other stores, just this magic catalog where I could fantasise owning EVERYTHING.
There was in fact a lot of eak in their off-peak
[https://retromash.com/argos/](https://retromash.com/argos/)
I was 10 and had no friends but desperately wanted a mobile phone anyway
That Phillips one was my first phone. Felt like a big boy going to secondary school with my £40 phone.
Ha! I owned the Siemens and upgraded to the Sony! Felt proper flash when I did, that Sony could hold like, 10 text messages! Pretty sure the Siemens didn’t have a phone book either – although that might have been the older model.
My wife and I keep our old phones – no idea why .
https://preview.redd.it/bmn4sulw7pye1.jpeg?width=2603&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9763ac64b7673989fee200479427619d80bfc408
Ah, the laminated book of dreams…
I had the Nokia 33 beforehand I was an insufferable bore I actually said ‘I dont feel important enough to have a mobile phone’ i was quite anti them.
I had that Philips savvy. Really wanted the Motorola v2288e next to it but my parents said it was too expensive 🙁
That’s got to be what, about 8 years ago if my maths is right….
https://retromash.com/argos/
£100 for a 3310 is a bargain. Probably have one sitting around with a half charge of battery left.
God, but I loved my Nokia 3310. I’m that sad that I collect them now. I know, *sad*. But! I won’t stop until I get my paws on the mighty and rarely-seen all-orange case. It’s apparently rarer than hen’s teeth but I so bloody well want it, LOL.
Do we all remember the optimistically named “Gifts” section (aka, The Tat Your Maiden Aunt In Chelmsford Would Send You)? The various and often horrific porcelain statues? The cringey dragon-holding-a-crystal? *The waterfall-effect LED clock with a totally realistic fantasy setting moulded in plastic and resin?* My sister always begged our mum for one of those weird make-up pyramids. You know, the ones with the cheapo blusher, lipsticks, eyeliner and a hidden lipstick in the apex of the pyramid? *Always* shiny jet-black plastic too. Thankfully our mother refused to buy her one of those but holy hell they were hideously funny.
We had one of those “chipped” Phillips phones, free calls and text. Snake on the Nokia and the monkey game on that sony were great.
Phillips Savvy was my first phone
god damn I miss going to argos, looking through the catalogue in the shop with each page of goodness laminated. the little pen and paper getting the number down and then they brought out that little blue and yellow machine so I could check if it was in stock before actually writing it down and going over to the glorious wall of goodness feeling like I’m playing the generation game seeing all the items go passed on the conveyor belt and seeing my stuff come over the edge at the top.
That Philips phone was the first mobile I owned. I bought it in 1999, and it was on the BT Cellnet network. I remember the character limit for text messages was very short. It was often the case that I would have to send more than one text to say what I wanted.
Ah… Siemens C35. My first phone.
Ahh, fond memories of working as a service troll at Argos as a teenager around that time. The customers trying to return consoles (not allowed!) who’d put bricks in the box to try and trick us; the days the conveyor belt would break so we’d just fling stuff down it into pillows at the bottom; and having to work the Elizabeth Duke counter cos some bird was ill and not having a single clue about anything in that part of the laminated book of dreams. Good times.
I bought my then girlfriend her first mobile, the Phillips Savvy, for her birthday from that edition!
What a crazy memory unlocked, I remember sitting on the sofa with her and she was looking at the phones in the Argos book.
Nokia 3310 for me is one of those legendary design items. So functional and iconic.
And doing a one inch snake that filled the entire screen so amazing
Our wedding present list (1993) was things cut out of an Argos book. We cut out all the things we would like, stuck one item per page in a cheap notebook, and then passed it round people who asked for it, they then would pick something they wanted to buy for us and rip the page out and hand the notebook back. Now people just go online and order from the couples wedding list.
Prime toilet material
Siemens C35e was my first phone. Trying to be different from everyone else getting the Nokia 3210/3310. I eventually realised the crowd was right and the Nokia were better.
The Nokia had voice activated dialling?! I never knew that.
They truly were great phones. I still kind of miss my 5110. And I definitely miss tapping the power button and being able to select silent, discreet, normal (?), or loud. Wish my iPhone had those options.
I’d have to work a whole week at the time to buy one of them.
Writing a list of stuff I would never get was life.
If you bought one of those phones it’s more than likely still intact and usable today.
The prices are interesting – the Nokia costs more than I would have thought. Considering you can still get a half decent mobile today for £100, the Nokia price is certainly premium!
There are entire sections of those old catalogues that are now entirely encapsulated in a modern smartphone; Personal music players, cameras, camcorders, calculators and so on.
Do JustTalk not exist anymore because the younger generation decided they didn’t want to talk at all JustText
These prices are why the old people complain “but these people have mobile phones” when any economic struggles are mentioned. Adjusted for inflation the Nokia must be around 200 pounds and cost 40p a minute to use at peak hours
My mum’s first mobile was a Philips Savvy.
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