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Ewan — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 06:52:42 -0000

A brilliant, brilliant phone!

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Gab — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 06:15:29 -0000

The Z5 made me come to visit this page. A remarkable piece of user experience way before anything else made by Apple and others.

The Sony Z5 does not even have a presence in Wikipedia, which I found quite revolting.

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Ewan — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:56:54 -0000

Agreed!

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Adooooo — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:50:54 -0000

Sony CMD Z5 was far away best phone made at this time.

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The Lead Zeppelin — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:22:44 -0000

I came in here looking up the Z5 CMD, had many years ago..I still remember its buttons touch,the dial, the fishing game!! and box..I think it had a stand with charger too? I'm not sure..but if I find one on ebay I would love to grab it just for how lovely this phone is..it still looks cool and slim for me to carry,I shouldn't have let it go..

My other fav. is a Nokia 8850,..its looks is timelessly elegant..feels like a cigar pack or a fancy lighter..got a refurbished one from ebay last year,never used it..it also collects dust as I don't want to go into the hassle of sync and setup contacts..
u think I should hang on to my N95 for future nostalgic reasons? or these newer models don't have character like the timeless ones..

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leekernan — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:39:16 -0000

I've still got my T610. Love the form factor on it, and it still works beautifully. I use it as my back-up phone (last time I had to use it was 3 months ago when my N95 packed up for a week, never did work out why, but just started working again!)

However, my best loved phone was my W950i. It had a mad keyboard, with a very obtuse OS and annoying touchscreen, but it did everything I wanted it to with aplomb, and no-one else had one. Dearly loved and still missed ;o).

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waadefrensch — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:27:40 -0000

of course: 6310i
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Patryk — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:29:33 -0000

My best phone ever? The Nokia 6310. I also have a spare 6310i with a dead vibration motor and the original Nokia car kit. The Sony Ericsson K750i comes pretty close, third place belongs to my current phone - Samsung i780, Windows Mobile equipped, but it's pretty great, though the out of the box experience was below average ;)

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rpcutts — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:58:13 -0000

I had a Sony CMD J70 and loved it. Defiantly my best ever phone.
Let a mate borrow it one night and he got mugged. Gutted.

Replaced with a Siemens SL55 which comes a close second. I liked it a lot.

Never liked any of my phones since then. Mostly Samsungs... never again.

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Kirsty — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:17:05 -0000

I've just stumbled across this article as I was having a nostalgic look back over all my old phones - the Sony Z5 was my absolute favourite too! There's no point looking at all the gadgets and gizmos, there's really nothing to compare. It's all about the feel of the phone, I've never owned one before or since that was so right - and the jog wheel perfected it :-)
Off back to real life now - mobile pc that is fantastic and runs my life, but needs rebooting oh so often to keep it working. Bring back the good old simple days!

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mick — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:54:20 -0000

Ericsson SH888i

Indestructable, lasted all day, you could twirl it around by it's aerial, loud as hell. And the pulsing green LED was beautiful. http://telefon.gsm.pl/porow...

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Ian — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:06:17 -0000

Has to be the Ericsson T68i which had a colour screen, great battery, bluetooth. Have to say that the Motorola F3 was a close second as a phone it was like a Kalashnikov but all it did was voice and text.

But what handset was the biggest disappointment?

For me it was the Razr which was like a Philippine Ladyboy from a distance it looked excellent but once you had a close look it was totally useless.

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adalrymple — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:57:56 -0000

Loved my K800 - my first phone that took useable pictures, prior to which I had a T600 which I liked. To confess prior to that, I mainly had Motoralas before then and hated every single one of them. Of course now I really like my BB 8900 to a near indecent amount.... (note I do have a vested interest but it remains true!)

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James Pearce — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:54:08 -0000

Nokia 6820 hit the spot circa 2004: candy bar size, blazing S40, decent XHTML browser, great little email client, a week of battery - and a foldout QWERTY keyboard.

The hardware genius of this device was that there was barely any form-factor sacrifice for the gull-wing - unlike its prototype (the 6810) and its clumsy S60 descendants (E70 et al).

Also... back in the day I loved my (classic) Nokia 3110. It was marketed on the basis of providing only one-button for menu navigation. Not strictly true (as you can see at http://www.gsmarena.com/nok... but this was Nokia exhibiting an Apple-like zen... in 1997.

Fond memories, eh?

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gedcarroll — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:15:02 -0000

For me it was the Ericsson T-39 handset. Great battery life, compact size. Bluetooth, voice recognition

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sevendotzero — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:31:58 -0000

I have fond memories of my Nokia Orange which was ground breaking in 1994. Launching with this handset quickly established Orange as a serious player in UK mobile comms.

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fonearena — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:05:45 -0000

Nokia 6630 .

I seriously loved this phone for the large screen , nice keypad and battery life. Camera was not the best but decent. I purchased this phone for around $250 and sold it for around $150 even after 1 year of rough usage.

The form factor of the phone was a bit funny but Personallly I loved it

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jimwild — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:57:16 -0000

Seconded, I still keep one for my travels. At least a weeks worth of battery if you are conservative.

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JebBrilliant — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:57:14 -0000

6310i is probably my all time favorite.
6190 changed the mobile world, that's when it went mainstream in the US.

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jimwild — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:55:45 -0000

This is a very dangerous subject to get me onto. Many hours have been spent in our office reminiscing on handsets of old.

My favourite old handset has to be the Nokia 7650 followed closely by the Nokia 7110.

One was the first ever to have an integrated camera, the other the first wap browser.

There have been many other good handsets though and I keep meaning to do a list/blog post of them all.

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Ewan — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:48:07 -0000

Always loved the N90. Such a revolution.

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tim — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:03:36 -0000

N90 - Great speaker, camera, build quality, keyboard, features. Loved it.

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raoul — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:54:48 -0000

by far: Ericsson t39m.
It was the last real rough'n tough ericsson.
Small, reliable and very powerful.

It was one of the first devices having Bluetooth - it also featured GPRS and HSCSD making it the first phone on which I've read mails - and as coolest feature it had a titan steel body that was hard enough you could open a beer bottle with it.

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Tadej Gregorcic — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:21:03 -0000

Definitely Nokia 8210.

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MarkW — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:59:05 -0000

I remember the video well! Watched it a couple of times on Really Mobile. Was (and still am) very impressed.