That must have been the compact version. Mine was bigger and a definite "luggable" model. 3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
5 x FL2 4 manual + 1 auto
Now Discovery Sport P250 MHEV SE

Does two tin cans and a length of string count in this thread? 3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
5 x FL2 4 manual + 1 auto
Now Discovery Sport P250 MHEV SE

Without doubt. Don't forget to keep the string tight!  10MY (Sept 09) TD4 HSE Auto in Stornoway Grey (Now Gone)

08 FL2 TD4 SE Manual in Rimini Red (Now Gone)

After buying my second phone, I got to learn how the fledgling mobile phone industry worked and I started buying and selling secondhand mobile phones. It was a real earner! In those days, the contracts and pricing were similar on both networks - Vodafone and Cellnet. £50 connection fee, £25 monthly charge plus calls at 50p per minute with the standard contract length being.......5 years! You could pick up phones that were barred for bad credit or being registered as stolen on one network and legally use them on the other network. Sometimes you could make a couple of hundred quid on the phones but most dealers were happy to break even because the 'real' money came in the form of a dealer connection fee. Sometimes as high as £675. Connect just one of them a day and you really were in the dosh. On my best ever day I connected 4 phones and in my best week 9 phones - that was a lot of dosh for basically no effort back in 1990! Holidays, cars, and a Yuppy lifestyle followed. Many times you would just connect someone up on the rival network because they had 'knocked' their previous one. Loadsa money! You were not allowed to connect directly with a network like you can now so had to go through various network providers. There were also 'special' network numbers issued to phone repair companies that could be programmed into any phone (for test purposes - no swapping of SIM cards in those days) and you could make calls at their expense. Programme one of those numbers into an old phone and they were worth a nice few bob. 'Basher' phones they were known as because you bashed some companies phone bill! You could put the one number on any number of phones. Not that I ever did that you understand. There came a time in the great boom in the late eighties when all these airtime provider companies were being sold off and their value was mostly determined by the number of active subscribers they had. You could always tell when one was being fattened up for sale as they were taking on subscribers with little or no credit checks - even electronic serial numbers (ESN's) of non-existent phones were being allocated phone numbers for connection and commissions were being paid. Of course, any good thing never lasts forever and the market in connection commissions collapsed when regulations changed and consumers were allowed to buy direct from Vodafone and Cellnet. Happy days. Never to be repeated.

I started with the Nokia 101 in 1992, then an Ericcsson 628 before the T39. Life was so simple! Td4 XS manual, Orkney Grey, MY2014

Interesting link here - popular phones in the eighties with today's equivalent price. I had nearly all of them.

https://www.vodafone.com/content/dam/group..._1980s.pdf

This was my first phone when I was at school. Had it on pay as you go with one2one. It made calls and sent texts and had about 4 ringtones all of which sounded like a tune from an Atari video game

Dingy green background with black dotted text. Cutting edge mid 90's.


 LL.B (Hons) - University of Derby
LOT (Lord of Time) - University of Gallifrey

I remember being issued with a Sony Ericsson T68i which was one of the first mobiles with a colour display and saying to everyone - why on earth would anyone need a phone with a colour screen?

I also had a car phone as described by DorsetF above. It was in the days of analogue and somehow my number was hijacked and from 5pm on a Friday until 7am on the Monday the phone was constantly used to call Islamabad et al. The upshot was a £6,000 bill . Thankfully Vodaphone waived all the charges.

Today I am proud to say that I hardly ever use a mobile and get by with PAYG of circa £25/annum. I still can't fathom why folk need this constant reassurance of being in touch with all and sundry. Paranoia methinks

Saturday's in Waitrose is good fun watching all the luvvies with gratis coffee in one hand and phone in other trying to do their shop.

As I am old enough I would report that I never owned a Filofax - Cool dudes of the day used to be seen carrying notebooks the size of family bibles and bulging biceps because of the weight  MY 09 GS manual in Lago Grey, Wood Co arm rest and side bumper strips - now sold.

MY 15 SD4 SE Auto Orkney Grey with colour coded Bumper Door Mouldings

Back in the early 90's my wife had had about 10 years off work having kids etc and went back to work. One day she said "I need to ask you something very personal and promise you won;t tell anyone?". I wondered what was coming, the question "What exactly is a Filofax?" 3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
5 x FL2 4 manual + 1 auto
Now Discovery Sport P250 MHEV SE

tenet wrote:

I also had a car phone as described by DorsetF above. It was in the days of analogue and somehow my number was hijacked and from 5pm on a Friday until 7am on the Monday the phone was constantly used to call Islamabad et al. The upshot was a £6,000 bill . Thankfully Vodaphone waived all the charges.

just picked up a Motorola Startac 130 GSM, and a Motorola 8700 GSM - real old school.

I forgot how long the battery lasts on a Motorola V9 - its easily 1.5 days.