Do you remember your first mobile phone, and how does it compare to the one you use today? How do you think mobile phones have changed the way we connect with each other over the years? What features of old phones do you miss, and what do you love most about modern smartphones?
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00:00Here's my mobile phone. People ring me, I ring out.
00:05Yeah, I remember getting my first mobile phone. God knows how many years ago.
00:09Very basic thing, I think like everyone else. No photos, no text.
00:15I remember well my mobile phone because, to be honest, I've still got it in the drawer now.
00:20And it was an old, a very, very old Nokia when they very first came out.
00:25And it was the time when you could top up using the scratch cards.
00:29Overall, yeah, of course, they're a force for good. They have to be.
00:32They've moved us on technologically, but I think there's a few perhaps social aspects of them that have been like a downside.
00:42The battery would last for days and days and days on end.
00:45The phone that I've got now, if I get like a day, I'm happy, you know, but the old ones, the batteries would last.
00:52And I don't know why that technology's changed.
00:56Old school, mate. Always will be. Won't change.