Do you remember your first mobile phones and PDAs? I wasn’t exactly making a lot of money, but somehow I managed to buy them.
My first was a Philips Aeon. 1999. Beeline, DAMPS. This little brick was eating up twenty-five cents per minute of talk. I was spending around 600 rubles a month, earning 1200 at the time. It had a green glowing screen. For lacking a mobile communication license, I ended up in a cell with prostitutes one night, arrested by the cops. This happened on my way to the store for some food from the office where I was overnighting, as it was farther to go home. I wasn’t released until I paid 100 rubles.
After that came the Motorola CD930. Heavy and indestructible.
Next was the metallic Benefon Q. Stylish, beautiful, golden. It even had a browser 🙂 WAP.
Then there was the LG 600 flip phone. With two screens, one on the lid and another inside. It had a great Korean joke — 70 characters in the address book for a number, and 10, I think, for a name.
Then came the chic Siemens S65. This one had a color screen.
After that was the wonderful Sony Ericsson K790i. It was the most comfortable phone as a phone. If only the buttons weren’t so close together.
Then came the era of touchscreens. I got a Glofiish X500+ (E-Ten). This was already a PDA with a stylus and GPS on Windows CE. And it had GPS!
Among PDAs, I had two Toshibas – e310 and e740. The latter could connect to the Internet via WiFi.
And before all that was a Casio Cassiopeia A-20. It was a precursor to laptops. It had Excel installed.
Among Android devices, I had the Samsung Galaxy Note II. There was also a Samsung Note 4.. With a fingerprint scanner, and the resolution back then was impressive. In 2015
Among tablets, there was the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, then iPads.
Then began the era of iPhones. I missed the first iPhone, the second – 3GS I drowned in tea. Then I bought an iPhone4.
Well, then came more iPhones. It’s boring to list them all. Probably updated every generation, now iPhone 15 Pro Max.
And before mobile communications, I spent a couple of years with a Midland Alan 42 radio station. It could be used as a phone. You had to call a special lady on 27MHz who would “connect” you to a telephone subscriber. I mean, she dialed the number and held the radio station to the phone. And vice versa. If they called her, she would shout to reach me. I paid monthly for this service.
And around that time, I also had a Motorola pager.
Cameras… Among digital ones there was a Canon PowerShot Pro 70, Sony Cyber-shot DSC F505, for a compact camera Canon PowerShot SD630, then Canon 40d, and I’m still using a Canon 6d
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 