10 Years of Mobile Phones

Today mobile phone is not only a tool to make phone calls, text but has already diversified into many other functions like camera, MP3 player, organiser etc.. and to some people it's something to show off their status.

Can you imagine how it has developed from 10 years ago? It has been more than 10 years for myself as a mobile phone user.

My first mobile phone was an ancient Motorola 8200, it was when my sister switched to the once popular Startac and gave it to me as a gift, when I was still a student in uni.

Don't play play, it was considered one of the most slim phone during that time but it was really a basic phone, text messaging wasn't even common back then.

Students are often spending without thinking much as they don't realise how hard it is to earn money. Soon I changed to an used Nokia 6110, lighter, younger, although it has a big thick antenna which nobody will wants it today. It was a very user friendly phone that made me think I won't go back to Motorola again.

However, the once beloved 6110 broke down not long after, forcing me to buy my first new phone Nokia 3210, bought it in Singapore, finally no more antenna, it's solid and heavy and is an extremely useful weapon if you get into fights.

[edited 20/4/07] how could I left out the Nokia 6510?? The once perfect phone which followed me for almost 3 years until it was really really really outdated, when everybody starts using phones with colour screens and polyphonic ringtone... Quite an embarrassment when exchanging numbers with chicks.. Esther had laughed on it for a long time.. and Steph text me after a few dates asking me to send it to museum..

After being a Nokia user for many years and many months of survey, I finally decided to switch camp and bought my first colour screen phone, Panasonic VS6, not a popular model but I really like it. It still has the best 16 millions display in the market, very good quality and the interface is as easy as Nokia. That was when I start playing with picture MMS to flirt with Steph.

It's very different for the mobile phone market in UK where you get a new phone with a mobile contract. I got my first phone in London, a Sony Ericsson W810i, the best that I ever had, love the music quality and everything with it! Guess I will keep it for a very long time.

I got the Motorola RAZR V3i for the 1,000 minutes off peak contract and it is basically free if I don't use beyond the limit. It's a very nice slim flip phone but I still don't like Motorola, struggling with the user interface even after months using it. Sold it on Ebay last week for GBP65, before it becomes a piece of junk. Back with my VS6 which I feel more handy with.

I certainly won't get a Blackberry like most other working class do in UK, checking emails everywhere. It's a tool which is designed to save your time but ends up locks up your freedom.

So what will the mobile phone industry becoming like, for the next 10 years?