Who can be quick to forget the legendary Nokia 3310?
If you were born before the inception of the gsm era in Nigeria, then you would be familiar with this phone.
Below are some of the popular and first brand of phones to be introduced into Nigeria.

1. Nokia 3310

Announced on 1 September 2000,and released in the fourth quarter of the year, the Nokia 3310 was a die hard phone because of its ruggedness,durability and aggressiveness. It was one of the most popular phone back in the days and it proved that having a good signal reception had nothing to do with antenna.


2. Nokia 1200

Launched 2007, this model of Nokia brought colour to the game of mobile phone and it was a huge success.

3. Motorola T10

4. BlackBerry 7210

Launched in 2003, it was ones of the major phones that cemented blackberry's place in the Nigerian market.

source: https://zeespan..com/2019/08/who-can-be-quick-to-forget-legendary_19.html?m=1

If i see the Nokia 1200 today, i swear i go buy am

who remembers NEC?

There was BIRD, SAGEM, and the Almighty THURAYA

Where is Sagem. Even comes with preloaded porn

Sagem brought photo and videos (started their video format with Gif) to phones back in the days with preloaded porn video u r good to go lol

DAutoDiagnosis:
Where is Sagem. Even comes with preloaded porn

It was bought and renamed Infinix by transsion Abi Wetin be that makers of Tecno name sef

There was this business centre phone call phone
One Samsunh SGH 220 with blue screen and antenna.

You have arrives as a business centre operator when you successfully purchase one.

Who remembers that myth then that text message consumes battery that's why they don't send it.

DAutoDiagnosis:
Where is Sagem. Even comes with preloaded porn

Are you sure about this? We had a Sagem home phone then, never saw anything like that.

I need those old phones where can I get them?

lukui:
who remembers NEC?

which one be NEC, again?

many of them such as,red and blue bird,

Days when men with no phones used to pay #5 per minute to make calls at phone boots... Just like people with cars nowadays do the ones with phones then would place the ones with no phones at the same level with dogs... Life is indeed so short



Pukes

DAutoDiagnosis:
Where is Sagem. Even comes with preloaded porn

Say what? This can't be true

And this too

A friend brought Nokia 3310 from Dubai believe me anywhere he goes he his like a celeb whenever the phone rings and he brings it out

The only pioneer phone on the list is the 3310. Others are not in the same category with the 3310. That blackberry should not even be on the list.

When you mentioned 3310, I expected to see....

Samsung blue eye.
Sagem.
Motorola T series.
Siemens C & A series.
Sendo. (models not remembered)
Etc.

These phones were used even before advent of polyphonic ringtones.

I'm talking of the era when the cheapest recharge card in the market was N1,500. If you recharge today, after one week, the credit will expire, you won't be able to mek calls with it again till you add another 1k5.

The era when there was no mobile Internet.

The era when business centres load a booster card of 4k to bring down their call tariff.

The era when we had only Econet and MTN.

The era when you can only recharge MTN with *555*1* PIN #

The era when men were boys.

czarina:
Are you sure about this? We had a Sagem home phone then, never saw anything like that.

lmao
Even my first psp portable in 2006 came with porn pictures and gifs

Memberclub:
lmao
Even my first psp portable in 2006 came with porn pictures and gifs

Now, that's something!

This was in 2005, yeah, I was younger then but I don't think I ever came across the "pre-loaded porn".

czarina:
Now, that's something!

This was in 2005, yeah, I was younger then but I don't think I ever came across the "pre-loaded porn".

Were we not all younger in 2005, 14 years ago?

You sure weren't older

grandstar:


Were we not all younger in 2005, 14 years ago?

You sure weren't older

True, we were all younger.. But how time flies

In those days, the Telecom companies milked Nigerians dry.

When GSM started in Nigeria in 2001 in Lagos and Abuja, only politicians, top Civil servants like Permanent secretaries or Pastors with big congregations could afford it.

It started with Econet wireless (0802) ,then few months later MTN (0803) and in 2003, MTEL (0804) and much more later Glo (0805) which revolutionize the services by crashing the prices of SIMs and tarrifs.

I remember around March,2003 when MTN wanted to lunch GSM (Global systems for Mobile telecommunications) in Ilorin and it became a serious campaign issues with both the ANPP/Gov Mohammed Lawal and PDP/Saraki camps both claiming credits for bringing GSM services to Kwara State.

Many Ladies were disvirgined because they were bought Samsung R22, Nokia 3310 or Sagem phones.
On campus, some ladies quarrelled or even dumped their BFs for not having these toy like mobilephones.

iAudio:
The only pioneer phone on the list is the 3310. Others are not in the same category with the 3310. That blackberry should not even be on the list.

When you mentioned 3310, I expected to see....

Samsung blue eye.
Sagem.
Motorola T series.
Siemens C & A series.
Sendo. (models not remembered)
Etc.

These phones were used even before advent of polyphonic ringtones.

I'm talking of the era when the cheapest recharge card in the market was N1,500. If you recharge today, after one week, the credit will expire, you won't be able to mek calls with it again till you add another 1k5.

The era when there was no mobile Internet.

The era when business centres load a booster card of 4k to bring down their call tariff.

The era when we had only Econet and MTN.

The era when you can only recharge MTN with *555*1* PIN #

The era when men were boys.

Around 2002-2010, there were many Land lines private telephone companies that operated side by side with GSM like RelTel, Intercellular, Starcom, Multilinks-choice, MTS-first, O-Net email.

Does anyone remembers these companies?

Motorola razr and blade

DesChyko:
There was this business centre phone call phone
One Samsunh SGH 220 with blue screen and antenna.

You have arrives as a business centre operator when you successfully purchase one.

Who remembers that myth then that text message consumes battery that's why they don't send it.

The one my dad bought in 2001 still works till date, just that the battery hardly lasts more than 2 seconds.

And the wonderful ..sony ericson...Trium...pls what happend to most of the companies...did they fold up or where bought over

lukui:
who remembers NEC?

I do. One of my friends used a NEC phone. I used a Samsung c100 and then a Motorola Razr.

iTearHerToto:
Days when men with no phones used to pay #5 per minute to make calls at phone boots... Just like people with cars nowadays do the ones with phones then would place the ones with no phones at the same level with dogs... Life is indeed so short



Pukes

It was actually N20 per minute.