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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HML" data-source="post: 7085140" data-attributes="member: 136955">Oldest GSM Phone.<img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/shocked.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":shocked:" title="Shocked    :shocked:" data-shortname=":shocked:" /> Oldest GSM Phone<img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/shocked.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":shocked:" title="Shocked    :shocked:" data-shortname=":shocked:" /> <img src="http://i42.tinypic.com/6i6wzo.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/yes.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":yes:" title="Yes    :yes:" data-shortname=":yes:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/yes.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":yes:" title="Yes    :yes:" data-shortname=":yes:" />After yesterday’s news that 2 billion people now use GSM mobile  phones, it seems timely to look back at the history of GSM and see what  the first generation looked like.  Back in 1991, the Motorola 1000 ‘Autotelefon’ was the digital phone  of choice.  Called a ‘transportable’, because, well, you couldn’t get away with  calling it ‘mobile’, the Motorola 1000 is bigger than most of today’s  base stations!  More surprising, and a real testament to the success of the original  GSM specification, the Motorola 1000 will still work, unchanged, on  today’s vastly-different GSM networks. For those nostalgia nuts out there, check out <a href="http://www.retrobrick.com/" target="_blank">RetroBrick’s</a>  complete range of ageing retro mobile bricks. We’ve come a long way in  15 years!<img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/yes.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":yes:" title="Yes    :yes:" data-shortname=":yes:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/yes.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":yes:" title="Yes    :yes:" data-shortname=":yes:" /></blockquote>

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