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Here's a little blast from the past. This is the Motorola 8200 that launched ten years ago to the day (actually, we don't know about that "to the day" bit, but it sounds more impressive if we say that). It had the undoubted distinction of being the first GSM mobile handset ever to feature vibrating ring tones (insert your own fruity comment here). Give it 20 years and people will start showing up on Antiques Roadshow with 8200s in their original box. If you want a phone that has no support for WAP or JAVA, no polyphonic ringtones, no colour screen, no camera, no infrared or Bluetooth, and a talk time of just 60 minutes, this is the handset for you. Apparently, they come up every now and then on eBay.
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Posted: 2004-11-10 18:11:59
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I have a 7500! The earlier version of the 8200.
It is huge.
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Posted: 2004-11-10 18:14:12
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Like my dislike of Ericsson before T68 I also hated Motorola before Startac and this is one example of a pretty ugly beast
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Posted: 2004-11-10 18:15:28
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@Masseur
I totally agree. They called the phone "Microtac". What is so micro about it?
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Posted: 2004-11-10 18:21:08
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I suppose it was micro compared to what came before it
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Posted: 2004-11-10 18:22:16
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True. Anything was micro compared to a briefcase!
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Posted: 2004-11-10 18:25:20
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....Even my old Motorola D170 ?
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Posted: 2004-11-10 18:26:48
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@masseur i am very very very disappointed... ;-)
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Posted: 2004-11-10 18:38:01
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I was waiting for Boba's reply!
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Posted: 2004-11-10 18:48:09
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I just can imagine the pic of it, one of my former bosses used a big suitcase fome when he was for a longer time in the states, think it could be that one he usually told me about.
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Posted: 2004-11-10 19:20:46
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