Vintage mobile phone store
Retrobrick sells "vintage" mobile phones and accessories -- I love the cognitive dissonance I get by typing the words "vintage" and "mobile phone" together, but given that these things have been around for decades, it's perfectly reasonable. My friend Jim Griffin likes to say "anything invented before you were 18 has been there forever, anything that turns up before you're 30 is new and exciting, and anything after that is a threat to the world and must be destroyed."
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We pride ourselves on having the widest stocks of the most collectable and vintage phones. But, in the unlikely event that we don't have what you want in stock, we will do our best to source it for you.Mobile phone collecting is still in its infancy around the world. These very recent antiques are becoming more and more popular and prices are set to rise dramatically. We predict a very large price increase, so any purchase made now could be a very wise investment
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This is interesting because this was a huge fad in the small city where I used to live in China (JiuJiang). In fact it was quite a status symbol there to have a huge brick cell phone. I would've thought it was really hip except for the fact that you only ever saw smarmy party officials, drunk from their lunchtime bender talking on them.
I have not seen this fad elsewhere in China so it might have just been a JiuJiang thing.
Actually, on second look, the smarmy guys in JiuJiang (see post #1) were actually quite a bit cooler because they'd had the phones hacked to have modern features and full color screens and what have you. I thought that's what these phones would be.
It looks like retrobrick also sells a brick phone with modern innards:
http://www.retrobrick.com/microt.html
But-but-but-but-but... I never heard of Cory Doctorow until after I was thirty!
There's no link.
Not only is there no link, part of the post text is missing too. There should be an image but it breaks the rest of the page code. I've sent Cory a mail to nag about it.
I had a Micro TAC and was dreadfully jealous of my business partner that had a Star TAC. Those were the days, when pulling out a huge 12-ounce brick was considered "pimp."
"My friend Jim Griffin likes to say"
I believe douglas adams liked to say that as well.
I always wanted the "banana phone" from the first Matrix movie, better known as the Nokia 8110 and the Nokia 7110, but they only worked in the UK. I don't know why, but I always liked the spring action keypad cover, and the fact that they were larger than most phones which would better fit my big hands and giant Irish head. Of course, I'm never in my right mind going to actually get one, but its nice to know that I still could.
O-M-G, you had to say banana phone. I can't get it out of my head. I am now here to share the hate to the uninitiated.
a contrived effort where the comedy value will only last until you realise you dont have a camera to use for the entirity of the gig or snap a pic of someone or something that will make you the next big thing on the internet.
I want casemodded modern phones built into into artificial decorative vegetables, pastries, turkey heads, trophy fish, ice cream bars, sandwich rolls, sardine cans, shoes, cheese, boxes of Godiva chocolates, shoes, vibrators, Beanie Babies, popsicles, chalkboard erasers, plastic dinosaurs, Tonka trucks ...
Teresa, right on. I would LOVE to pull a rutabaga out of my purse and answer it.
Out of your purse?
I want a rubber hand phone
And they should make a special, flared casemod for that guy, Antinous.
Perhaps a modern cell phone built into a flaming phone book brought to you by a waiter...
This is soon going to spill over into the field of Teledildonics isn't it?
"going to?" I'm sure it's on the shelf(somewhere).