In 1994, my father decided that it was worth the expense to have the security of having a phone while travelling. It was then that the shoulder bag with a wired handset came into our lives. That thing was huge. He did get one for me a few months later that was much smaller, the smart slim phone.
The slim phone was... slim. The battery had to be recharged everyday given minimal usage. Then the bill problems came. We were being charged for calls we didnt make. The threat of a cloner came in to mind. Despite measures, there were still some billing discrepancies so we decided to quit subscribing with smart and in 1995, my adventures with the wonderful world of cloneless GSM began with my 0915-704-1814 Islacom motorola microtac unit that looked like a small clothes iron.
Text messaging was done through an operator, much like my pager that time. Signals were erratic but it was still the coolest thing to have. Then came globe and smart GSM networks.
I basically stuck with Islacom until the fact that the service was lousy forced me to transfer to globe in 2004. I finally got a nice new nokia 3210 which was incidentally 1/3 the size of my old motorola. Texting from handset to handset became a part of life. It was then when i could consider myself a participant in modern mobile telecommunication. It is at that point when this story begins.
The slim phone was... slim. The battery had to be recharged everyday given minimal usage. Then the bill problems came. We were being charged for calls we didnt make. The threat of a cloner came in to mind. Despite measures, there were still some billing discrepancies so we decided to quit subscribing with smart and in 1995, my adventures with the wonderful world of cloneless GSM began with my 0915-704-1814 Islacom motorola microtac unit that looked like a small clothes iron.
Text messaging was done through an operator, much like my pager that time. Signals were erratic but it was still the coolest thing to have. Then came globe and smart GSM networks.
I basically stuck with Islacom until the fact that the service was lousy forced me to transfer to globe in 2004. I finally got a nice new nokia 3210 which was incidentally 1/3 the size of my old motorola. Texting from handset to handset became a part of life. It was then when i could consider myself a participant in modern mobile telecommunication. It is at that point when this story begins.