Vintage Cell Phones

[lnx64]

Originally Posted by Dude111

I would rather have a cell phone o nan analogue network as analog sounds better.. I dont care if someone is listening,THEY ARE ANYWAY!!!!!!!!

I would love having a 1980s cell phone.... Just a nice basic phone that works and sounds excellent!

https://streamable.com/4lthz

[SpaceAge]

My iPhone 6s is now considered “vintage” because it has a headphone jack.

On the topic of vintage cell phones, anyone have a car phone that is still operational? My family has a 1999 Mercedes E320 with a car phone but I’m pretty sure it’s analog unfortunately. It would be nice if it could at least call 911 in a pinch.

[lnx64]

Originally Posted by SpaceAge

My iPhone 6s is now considered “vintage” because it has a headphone jack.

On the topic of vintage cell phones, anyone have a car phone that is still operational? My family has a 1999 Mercedes E320 with a car phone but I’m pretty sure it’s analog unfortunately. It would be nice if it could at least call 911 in a pinch.

My fathers 95 Continental had one, but the phone itself was long gone. The module however was still in the trunk itself (with also the FM radio module too).

[lnx64]

Mint works as I suspected.

Only weird SIM card mis-communication between the phone and the SIM card is the Voicemail icon. That shouldn't be there. The SIM card has settings on it for 5G wireless, and as I suspected, the Nokia is reading that as "Hey I got voicemail!" but the phone DOES still put the text "New Voicemail" on the screen if I got voicemail. So it's not like it's leaving me curious. Everything else works, call and text.

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by lnx64

Mint works as I suspected.

Only weird SIM card mis-communication between the phone and the SIM card is the Voicemail icon. That shouldn't be there. The SIM card has settings on it for 5G wireless, and as I suspected, the Nokia is reading that as "Hey I got voicemail!" but the phone DOES still put the text "New Voicemail" on the screen if I got voicemail. So it's not like it's leaving me curious. Everything else works, call and text.

so that is what that is. Every smartphone I've had so far has constantly had that stupid voicemail notification constantly active even when I had just checked my voicemail and had 0 messages in it.... It's kind of annoying that new phones suffer from this too... sounds like some bad engineering practice is being employed around SIM cards.
My problem is they don't always send me a text when I get a voicemail so sometimes I don't know I have one for a week or 3...

[lnx64]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

so that is what that is. Every smartphone I've had so far has constantly had that stupid voicemail notification constantly active even when I had just checked my voicemail and had 0 messages in it.... It's kind of annoying that new phones suffer from this too... sounds like some bad engineering practice is being employed around SIM cards.
My problem is they don't always send me a text when I get a voicemail so sometimes I don't know I have one for a week or 3...

Yea, that icon being stick is a SIM card issue. Phones usually store that indicator in the SIM memory (smart phones might be different though, but that's how GSM phones used to do it). This SIM card in my smart phone shows no voicemail, in the Nokia it shows voicemail. The way I can tell here is simple, when I turn on the Nokia, that icon lights up BEFORE I even have service, that means the SIM card is saying it, but I think it might be because this is a 5G capable SIM card. Those have extra strings in them that might be confusing the Nokia. I had a feeling I might run into it, but I wasn't sure what it would do. Apparently it's a false voicemail icon. Luckily when I get a voicemail, the Nokia still puts on the screen "New Voicemail" so it's not like I won't know if I got anything or not.

Now my smart phone on the other hand, that thing constantly would fail to tell me if I had voicemail or not. Visual voicemail never worked either, it was so broken.

[Telecolor 3007]

I got some voicemail message. Let's see how I will acces it.
Nice "Nokia"... red "body"

[lnx64]

Yea it's a very beautiful Nokia. Not the original face plate though, the original was black. Then when in high school I had my alt lifestyle phase and had a neon green faceplate on it (I say phase despite still kind of being into that stuff) and now it has a candy apple red with metallic bits like car paint. I love it.

I walked around the mall today and a cell phone repair shop had some vintage phones there, and mine was on display as "vintage". lol So I pulled mine out to show still working, they got a kick out of it and weren't even aware they could still get service for the time being (maybe a year or 2 left, no idea).

[lnx64]

Voicemail icon fixed itself on the Nokia with Mint. Maybe it was a fluke.

[Telecolor 3007]

"Nokia" 5110 was one of the 1st phones to have chaning covers.

[Telecolor 3007]

Oh, A.M.P.S. had also problems with cloning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanc...e_Phone_System

[lnx64]

This is now my spam blocker: https://streamable.com/lsr3h

Surprisingly.............it's kind of actually worked.

[Telecolor 3007]

A very nice one indeed!

[lnx64]

I guess the SIT tones actually work for spammers. I wasn't certain it would, but after I recorded that, the calls have stopped. At least for today, and I was getting like 6 calls prior.

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by lnx64

I guess the SIT tones actually work for spammers. I wasn't certain it would, but after I recorded that, the calls have stopped. At least for today, and I was getting like 6 calls prior.

So you made that your voicemail message to throw them off their game?