nitrotech:

We've gone full circle from small back to big bulky phones

NikT: Funny thing about the Okta Touch - work done at Massey to port Linux to that device contributed towards the creation of HaRET (Handheld Reverse Engineering Tool), which extended the lifespan of many Windows Mobile devices by allowing them to boot into Android. Even more significantly, that led to the enormous development space for the glorious HTC HD2, which boots nearly anything you throw at it - It's still my all-time favourite phone. If it wasn't for the Okta Touch and those folks at Massey, a huge international crew of homebrew software developers may never have gotten started. :)

I was a big fan of the Okta Touch's QWERTY-toting cousin, the HTC Titan, which I scored for ~$100 off of TradeMe back in the glory days of the TelstraClear CDMA MVNO plans:



Scroll wheel, soft-touch keyboard, extending stylus, and a glorious form factor, the Titan was a lovely thing. Snapping out the spring-loaded keyboard was enormously satisfying (Especially when it triggered Transformers sound effects). I'm the huge phone nerd I am today entirely thanks to being thrown in the deep end of Windows Mobile custom ROMs via the Titan and the Apache before it.

Damager:

nitrotech:

We've gone full circle from small back to big bulky phones

had one of these also. Cracked me up because it could receive texts but not send them! mine was a 1997/8 model

quickymart:

Damager:

nitrotech:

We've gone full circle from small back to big bulky phones

had one of these also. Cracked me up because it could receive texts but not send them! mine was a 1997/8 model

Holy crap, I remember those! My ex had two. First one with a red-text-black background screen, then an LCD model like the one above. I don't think text messaging was an option on those, was it? (I didn't even have a cellphone back then).

Stan: Found the a while ago :)
One of these was my 1st phone- Think it must have been around 1997??

quickymart:

Damager:

nitrotech:

We've gone full circle from small back to big bulky phones

had one of these also. Cracked me up because it could receive texts but not send them! mine was a 1997/8 model

Holy crap, I remember those! My ex had two. First one with a red-text-black background screen, then an LCD model like the one above. I don't think text messaging was an option on those, was it? (I didn't even have a cellphone back then).

macuser: Telecom the name is going away for mobile users tomorrow, time to reflect.  Post a photo of the Telecom mobile you remember most fondly!

Mine was the Treo 650!

The year was 2005, Full Qwerty, full MicroSD card, 320x320 pixel screen and PalmOS...Don't forget threaded SMS!!!!!!!!

Was such a cool device...



Bonus points for whoever posts a photo of the orginal device!

nitrotech:

We've gone full circle from small back to big bulky phones

Damager:
I used to charge $50.00 to unlock the GPS on the HTC Titan, and then install Garmin :-) Always wondered why Telecom locked the GPS on these phones. Good ol days of WM.

NikT: Then again, I wasn't about to use too much data at $3.00/MB.

Behodar:

NikT: Then again, I wasn't about to use too much data at $3.00/MB.

If I recall correctly, Telecom prepaid was still $10/MB right up until "XT" in 2009. The phone that I had at the time (Nokia 6275i) didn't have Wi-Fi so downloading apps wasn't cheap!