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You can guess how popular Nokia was here... Being native here after all. Ericsson lost market share pretty early, and Motorola was never popular.
 
Did anyone else have the TI-89 graphing calculator with Tetris and Drug Wars on it? That got me through MANY calculus classes!
Had one, and still do, but never played on it. It was even a joke in our high school that IB students (well, in practise just those taking higher level mathematics) all had TI.

Or... Wait. Was it 89 or 85... šŸ¤” Can't remember.
 
Few years back they released an updated version of it worked on modern networks.
I really wanted to get the Nokia 8810 as a weekend phone a few years back. They updated it, but it didn’t have the full keyboard, just had the standard phone buttons and rudimentary emails. Would have been nice for weekend screen detoxes and getting away from work.
 
Did anyone else have the TI-89 graphing calculator with Tetris and Drug Wars on it? That got me through MANY calculus classes!
Fancy! To this day, I still don't know how to use my graphing calculator 🤣
I know that is English, but I have no idea what that is supposed to mean. šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø
We played with snakes 🤭
You can guess how popular Nokia was here... Being native here after all. Ericsson lost market share pretty early, and Motorola was never popular.
I never had an Ericsson, had a Motorola but it just made me miss my Nokia
 
Oh you had a Nokia! šŸ˜ And the famous model which gave material to me many memes about it's durability.

I must have broken a dozen Nokias. :rolleyes:

My first cell phone was from work in ā€˜98. I think it was a Nextel made by Motorola. Our company used them with an internal walkie talkie network but they could also make phone calls. Employees could make personal calls anytime for $1 / minute incoming or outgoing which would come out of your paycheck.

My wife, (gf at the time) was very impressed that I had a job that would supply me with a phone. Sometimes she would call me with a timer set for 55 seconds so we could say everything quick and hang up before I got charged another $.

:LOL:
 
I have had several Motorola cell phones, Backberries, now iPhones, never had a Nokia. My first Motorola was actually a car phone (permanently mounted in the car) back in ā€˜93.
A company I worked for had a car mounted phone (it was a truck) in 1984, and it costed a fortune to use. Only for emergency calls was the instructions.
 
Had one, and still do, but never played on it. It was even a joke in our high school that IB students (well, in practise just those taking higher level mathematics) all had TI.

Or... Wait. Was it 89 or 85... šŸ¤” Can't remember.
In college (engineering) HP was the go-to for calculators. (Rock on RPN!). I had (have) a top of the line (for then) HP28s! We called them ā€œProfessor HPā€
 
I've never seen a car phone irl 😮
I've seen 2, I think. My uncle used to be a taxi driver in the 80's. And then my 2 of my class mates (sisters) got a car phone to use like a normal landline, when the moved to town to have shorter way to school (2km instead of 50km...). That was around the time when mobile phones were breaking through, 96-97, several of my class mates had one, but far from everyone.
 
In college (engineering) HP was the go-to for calculators. (Rock on RPN!). I had (have) a top of the line (for then) HP28s! We called them ā€œProfessor HPā€
I had a nice HP too, bought by my dad. He just didn't know we could use graphic calculators in the IB system (they were not allowed in the final exams in the national system).
 
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