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kyousif · 08-07-2003, 6:55 PM

Has anyone retired a phone and the later looked back at it and said "what were they thinking for making it or why did I buy it it is ugly as sin"?

Mine was an old Airthouch phone Qualcom 8260 I think (reflecting back) and I put the super extended battery so it was like 4 inches thick and like 3 inches wide.... I would never have bought it today..

KevinJames · 08-07-2003, 7:19 PM

None of the phones were ever ugly to me <u>at the time I bought them</u>. But then at the time they were 'latest technology' and I thought that was pretty great. I have noticed that many people's first cell phone is either the free-bee or the cheapest offered by the carrier. For example, I see a lot of Nokia 5160's out there. They aren't necessarily ugly but they are very common and, in spite of what Nokia intended for the phone, very difficult for first-time users to understand.

Tony E! · 08-07-2003, 8:05 PM

can't remember exactly what model number it was, i think it was a motorola 550(airtouch) the gray one that flip open, i had a slim battery on it, and at the time i just thought it was the coolest phone around, then nokia step in, wow!

danny boi · 08-08-2003, 1:48 AM

Airtouch's biggest mistake in my opinion was the Moto. 3360. I thought it was cool at the time. For being so small, it weighed like two pounds, (JK) and were always getting returned for overheating like a bad radiator. It always said "searching" for service when all the other phones had good signal. I hated that phone.

TProphet · 08-08-2003, 5:41 AM

I think that the Motorola TeleTac (aka the "flipless flip") with an extended-life battery was the ugliest phone ever on the market. It looked like a wedge. The runner-up is the "fat brick," e.g. a Motorola brick phone (the model number escapes me) with the built-in charger. These things were actually as wide as a brick, perhaps even wider. ESN changes were sure easy using mot66.exe though... ah, those were the days. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

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kyousif Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 99 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Just curious Has anyone retired a phone and the later looked back at it and said "what were they thinking for making it or why did I buy it it is ugly as sin"? Mine was an old Airthouch phone Qualcom 8260 I think (reflecting back) and I put the super extended battery so it was like 4 inches thick and like 3 inches wide.... I would never have bought it today..

08-07-2003, 7:19 PM	#2 (permalink)
KevinJames WA's 1st retired mod Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Central Valley NorCA Posts: 2,588 Phone(s): Nokia 6126 Provider(s): the new AT&T Devices: Bluetooth devices--MotoHS820, Garmin Nuvi 660 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Just curious None of the phones were ever ugly to me <u>at the time I bought them</u>. But then at the time they were 'latest technology' and I thought that was pretty great. I have noticed that many people's first cell phone is either the free-bee or the cheapest offered by the carrier. For example, I see a lot of Nokia 5160's out there. They aren't necessarily ugly but they are very common and, in spite of what Nokia intended for the phone, very difficult for first-time users to understand.

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danny boi Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: SoCali Posts: 1,119 Phone(s): BlackBerry Pearl 8120, Moto S9 StereoBT Headset Provider(s): T-Mobile USA Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Just curious Airtouch's biggest mistake in my opinion was the Moto. 3360. I thought it was cool at the time. For being so small, it weighed like two pounds, (JK) and were always getting returned for overheating like a bad radiator. It always said "searching" for service when all the other phones had good signal. I hated that phone. __________________ http://www.sticktogether.com/coverage/

08-08-2003, 5:41 AM	#5 (permalink)
TProphet I am a mobile phone Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Renton, WA Posts: 576 Phone(s): Sanyo 7200, Nokia 6010, Nokia 6015i Provider(s): Sprint, Cingular, Virgin Mobile Canada Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Just curious I think that the Motorola TeleTac (aka the "flipless flip") with an extended-life battery was the ugliest phone ever on the market. It looked like a wedge. The runner-up is the "fat brick," e.g. a Motorola brick phone (the model number escapes me) with the built-in charger. These things were actually as wide as a brick, perhaps even wider. ESN changes were sure easy using mot66.exe though... ah, those were the days. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

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