This (5100) remains my favorite mobile phone of all time. It had a flashlight feature which, at the time, turned out to be such a big hit in KTVs along Havelock Road. A throwback to a time "when life was slow and oh, so mellow", "when you were a tender and callow fellow", "when life was so tender that no one wept except the willow", "that dreams were kept beside your pillow".
Oh, for the simple days when all you needed was voicecalls + sms to be content. Try to remember.
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Wow, 玻璃之城/City of Glass.
I remember watching this as an archi college student. A slow and very sweet melodrama with a nice music soundtrack. And if I rem correctly, a beautiful house with a beautiful view, an architectural practice, and a story of two college students trying to put together the threads of their parents' pasts, and college and love lives...
Very nice.
:)
(Btw, do we remember what we were doing on 12am 1st July 1997?)
I do indeed. But not politically correct to recount in public here.
Btw .. the timing of the Nokia 5100 and the song/movie is quite far apart. Movie in 1998, 5100 circa 2003.
The 2 appear together here because the 5100 reminds me of the many times I have viewed this clip in "Havelock Road", together with a few regular visitors to this blog.
Heh, I have a feeling my activities (on campus) in the wee hours of 1st July 1997 may not be any more staid than yours...
:)
Just read the Nokia article you shared above. Very good read, thanks.
I remember my first hp was a old Motorola monster (passed from me dad), the ETAC or MicroTAC that looks like a tank when you clip on the hump-shaped extended battery. So heavy and embarrassing, I left it at home most times. Quickly went for the StarTAC when that came out.
I think my favourite HPs of all time in terms of design are:
the banana phone, Nokia 8110 (the matrix phone, very satisfying sliding click);
and the tiny Motorola V3688 (I stuck with this model the longest, but it was quite fragile, had to change 3 or 4 times, just for the fantastic gem-like design and tiny form-factor; and it fitted snugly into a little pocket of my carpenter pants then -- heh! another sartorial fashion disaster!).
Thanks for the walk down memory lane...
The Sonim XP3 toughphone was the one I really wanted, but it was not available in Spore. I corresponded with the company for ages to confirm Chinese SMS capability but got nowhere so did not buy the phone in the end.
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