Boy, does this throw up memories. I remember buying my first mobile phone, I think it was in 1990-1991.
At the time, the Motorola 'brick' was the only thing going, and you could see people deliberately make calls in Central London to impress others.
I didn't see the point of carrying a brick in a city where there were at the time relatively many working phone booths, but the P3 sold me to portable telephone :-). The NEC P3 was nicer, had a better sound quality and later it emerged it was rather easy to 'upgrade' with a diagnostics chip.
But the real kicker was it's size - I didn't really want to wander around showing off, and that was almost unavoidable with the Motorola because you needed a rucksack to carry it..
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My first phone was the NEC P3
Boy, does this throw up memories. I remember buying my first mobile phone, I think it was in 1990-1991.
At the time, the Motorola 'brick' was the only thing going, and you could see people deliberately make calls in Central London to impress others.
I didn't see the point of carrying a brick in a city where there were at the time relatively many working phone booths, but the P3 sold me to portable telephone :-). The NEC P3 was nicer, had a better sound quality and later it emerged it was rather easy to 'upgrade' with a diagnostics chip.
But the real kicker was it's size - I didn't really want to wander around showing off, and that was almost unavoidable with the Motorola because you needed a rucksack to carry it..