Wanted - Car phone or early Nokia handsfree kit

[Blobsta]

Have any of you lovely people got a car phone in your garage that you don't want anymore? I quite fancy having one in my C43 as I feel it would complete the yuppie look. In truth, the car is a 1999 so it would've been a bit late to the party for a built in car phone but I figure most people wouldn't realise.

If not that, I'd be very happy with an earlier Nokia kit that I can put the old style Nokia brick in. I had the Orange 2140 as my first phone and I think it was their version of the Nokia 2110 but again this is a bit early for my car, for 1999 it should have a Nokia 7110 with the CARK-91 kit but that is a bit small and not really worth the bother.

Also, the irony of having it next to an Apple CarPlay unit is not lost on me I assure you!

Cheers all

 

[SpikyMikey]

I had a Nokia car phone in my first work van which I may still have in the attic (on the basis that nothing ever seems to get chucked out in this place)
I'll venture up and rummage amongst the spiders as soon as I get a moment.
It's like this:


Lovely wagon BTW

 

[Blobsta]

Mate, that would be awesome, I hope it's still there. The worst part is that for years I moved my dad's really lovely Panasonic EB unit around his garage as he refused to throw it out until I finally got fed up with it and threw it myself. I regret that now!

All of the buttons lit up in a beautiful green and I can remember being in awe of it in his company Sierra Sapphire in around '88-89 as a pre teen obsessed with cars and gadgets!

Going to have to make some clever brackets so as not to drill my dash

 

[SpikyMikey]

Mate, that would be awesome, I hope it's still there. The worst part is that for years I moved my dad's really lovely Panasonic EB unit around his garage as he refused to throw it out until I finally got fed up with it and threw it myself. I regret that now!

All of the buttons lit up in a beautiful green and I can remember being in awe of it in his company Sierra Sapphire in around '88-89 as a pre teen obsessed with cars and gadgets!

Going to have to make some clever brackets so as not to drill my dash

Sod's Law dictates that it'll probably be the only thing that has got binned in the last 15 years - but I'll let you know.
Do these things still work on today's networks?

 

[BTB 500]

My 1997 R129 has a phone cradle and I do have an old Nokia in that, just for looks (no battery or SIM in it).

 

[Blobsta]

Sod's Law dictates that it'll probably be the only thing that has got binned in the last 15 years - but I'll let you know.
Do these things still work on today's networks?

If it's there, great, if not, never mind,

The phones were analogue and there generally wasn't a SIM as such, it was somehow programmed internally but not something a user could change, I'm certain it can't be anything more than a prop these days.

 

[Petrol Pete]

Still got my Nokia 6310 holder in my van , found a new use for it recently .

 

[SpikyMikey]

So, couldn't find the Nokia (although I still suspect it's up in the attic hiding somewhere).
However, I did find this:

Complete apart from the aerial which was a body mount on one of my vans. Mic, speaker, control unit and wiring looms all there.
It'll clean up OK I think and might even come alive with a gentle application of 12VDC.
Yours if you want it - ping me a DM !

 

[SpikyMikey]

Update.
Well whatdyaknow? It works!

 

[Blobsta]

AMAZING! I am stupidly grinning at that! HAHAHA!

 

[Bortig]

Mate, that would be awesome, I hope it's still there. The worst part is that for years I moved my dad's really lovely Panasonic EB unit around his garage as he refused to throw it out until I finally got fed up with it and threw it myself. I regret that now!

All of the buttons lit up in a beautiful green and I can remember being in awe of it in his company Sierra Sapphire in around '88-89 as a pre teen obsessed with cars and gadgets!

Going to have to make some clever brackets so as not to drill my dash

Forgot about the green lit keys, brings back memories

 

[Bortig]

So, couldn't find the Nokia (although I still suspect it's up in the attic hiding somewhere).
However, I did find this:
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Complete apart from the aerial which was a body mount on one of my vans. Mic, speaker, control unit and wiring looms all there.
It'll clean up OK I think and might even come alive with a gentle application of 12VDC.
Yours if you want it - ping me a DM !

Didn't they also have a window stick on aerial as an option, sure I had one circa late eighties early nineties

 

[Blobsta]

Didn't they also have a window stick on aerial as an option, sure I had one circa late eighties early nineties

A lot did yes. My car already had a hole put in the roof for a phone antenna at a guess, the aerial was there when I got the car but not connected to anything so I replaced it with a decent DAB one that I already had. I have digital quality adverts if I want them!

 

[SpikyMikey]

Didn't they also have a window stick on aerial as an option, sure I had one circa late eighties early nineties

Yep, the later Nokia of mine had an inductively coupled glass mount antenna.I know that 'cos the blooming thing kept falling off.

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

Pre 1990 phones are analogue so can't talk to any network

2G digital started in 1990, 3G in 2003. Vodafone have started switching off 2G and 3G signals in more remote areas with the intention of closing everything down by the end of the decade.

 

[SpikyMikey]

During my dark and spider-infested exploration of the attic, I also uncovered this; apparently the Science Museum has one!

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

Motorola's first "flip" GSM, circa 1995. My "company" phone when I knew I was going to leave. Kept the phone: very useful, but so expensive!

I think you could receive texts, like a pager, but not send them.

Absolute bees knees at the time.

 

[SpikyMikey]

Motorola's first "flip" GSM, circa 1995. My "company" phone when I knew I was going to leave. Kept the phone: very useful, but so expensive!

I think you could receive texts, like a pager, but not send them.

Absolute bees knees at the time.

Apparently launched in '94.
I can only think that Orange were doing an airtime deal on them as they were £250 to buy back then

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

Apparently launched in '94.
I can only think that Orange were doing an airtime deal on them as they were £250 to buy back then

Definitely airtime deals - long before the days of SIM only. From unreliable memory it was a few hundred quid - probably £250 as you say - then something like £15 a month for something like 15 minutes, maybe 30 included, a month, with extra minutes being chargeable at what might have been something on the way to a quid a minute.

At lot different to the rates i was dealing with in 1989. Two grand to buy a "brick," and then hundreds and into thousands a month to run one. Not mine, but the business line MD's whose expenses I was signing off.

Those days before "Hi Honey, I'm on the train."

 

[Blobsta]

I've started a nostalgia thread here - quite pleased with that!

I had the Nokia Orange as my first phone, it was their version of the 2110 (I think it was a 2140 as Orange ran on 1800Mhz whereas all the others were something like 900Mhz. I say all the others, it was Cellnet and Vodafone wasn't it?

A thing os beauty as I recall it.