The Nokia PT 11 - A small tribute to my first cell phone

As 1998 here having my first day at E-Plus, I was also my very first cell phone. Sounds unbelievable perhaps, but still long no everyday basic equipment at that time were ´s mobile phone and so I chose to date still via fixed network world.

My first Nokia
Accordingly reverently I received then the at that time quite modern Nokia PT11 NF, even in the somewhat rarer anthracite version. Previously, there was the E-plus branded device is still in the appropriate green color. The anthracite version the classic green E-plus recalled logo with "Little bird" then the E-Plus brand.

I set out me so to discover this new companion in my life. My first call was my mother, who had already a mobile phone at the time as only one in the family. I reached in the middle of a mission and surprised they thus audible. This State did however not last long and then we put two Plaudertaschen los correctly. This is in addition to this day as .

Triumph of the ringtones
But the surprises went still further: I had previously not even thought that a phone might ring differently with "ring, ring" or "brrr brrr,". Nokia "tune" today means the at that time everywhere audible sound with which Nokia had created a true classic.

The possibility to send SMS was even more exciting. Here I can not remember unfortunately my first SMS and I not know what a triumph would learn this rather short 140-character message delivery also still. But did you also know that with this device the world's known SMS notification sound - the characteristic double "double Tweet" - was his birth?

Best seller PT 11 NF:
The PT11 NF was available in 1995. Despite then of usual mobile phone subsidy contract, this very simple by today's standard mobile phone was quite high price. However, it was a best seller. The at least four-line monochrome display was lit green. It was even the still well-known two menu buttons under the display for the control and arrow keys to navigate. Only the detachable antenna was still a relic of earlier days and disappeared a short time later by almost all manufacturers.

This phone will be always a very special for me and probably it is not entirely innocent in my still ongoing enthusiasm for mobile phone .

Take that's "Back for good"!
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