how obsolete is this phone?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

[littlewolf]

1. have no idea .. when I saw the headline

I had a mental picture of the old wooden ones
that hung on the wall with the hand crank ....

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. that would be awesome retro

[HopeHoops]

2. Not very.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

12. 2-3 years, I think.

[HopeHoops]

14. I still have one of the original "Star Trek Communicator" Motorola flip cell phones.

Now THAT'S obsolete! Even if the battery still worked, I'm pretty sure there are exactly zero networks it could connect to today. The first cell phone I remember seeing had a standard phone handset connected to a case the size of a car battery, and THAT was considered high tech at the time! I'm not interested in any of the iPhone type things. I've got computers. I need (and have) a flip phone for durability and conservation of pocket space and I use it to place and receive calls. That works.

[hobbit709]

3. does it work? If so it ain't obsolete.

My plain old Tracfone dumbphone does what I want-i.e. makes calls receives calls and costs me about $7/mo.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

11. yes, it works wonderfully.

[Xyzse]

4. That is close to 3 years old already right?

The Sony Playstation type phone, that I could not find any where.
Well, maybe 2 years old. Did it ever come to the US?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. yes, it is in the US and yes I think it is 2-3 yrs old. thanks.

[Xyzse]

15. I have two smart phones

One is an unopened unlocked Nokia Lumia 800

The current one I am using is the HTC MyTouch4G.

[hedgehog]

5. here's my phone:

It even has a dial tone!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

10. cool -- my old phone:

[Baitball Blogger]

16. That looks like a birth control container.

[TuxedoKat]

18. I had a phone

very similar to that, it was my favorite. My husband is pushing me to get an Iphone now because of the various functions he says would be useful for me.

[Yavin4]

6. I use crows to make my calls

Yes, I am reading Game of Thrones.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. Blackbird singing in the dead of night,

take these broken wings and learn to fly

[OriginalGeek]

9. You have THREE unread messages

[petronius]

17. You damn kid, getoff my lawn with your techno wizzgibbit

Back in my day, cell phones only had cameras, GPS, music players and microSD slots - and we liked it that way! grumblegrumble...