I got my first cell phone in 1998 – over 10 years ago and I’ve been connected ever since. In this post I am going to outline the phones I’ve owned over the last decade and try to give a bit of a technology overview for each.
1. Nokia 2160
This was my first cell phone. It was a gift for graduating high school. I got it towards the end of 1998.
Provider: Cantel/AT&T
Network: AMPS, TDMA 800 MHz
Battery: 600 mAh Nickel Metal Hydride
2G Talk time: 1.5 hours
2G Standby: 40 hours
Screen resolution: 2 lines LCD
This was an early PCS phone (many people still had standard analog phones at the time) and could do advanced things such as SMS text messaging. The phone however was very basic, had monophonic ring tones and no games to speak of… and I loved it!
