Thread: What Are Some of the Oldest Sprint-Branded Phone STILL In Use?

I got both of my Sanyo 4500's to light up! Those things are like walkie-talkies!

Quote: Originally Posted by baker954 Mallory I love your title underneath your username! Thanks man! So I googled StarTac in google images and found a few new and improved StarTacs. This one I read about being released in 2004. http://www.mobiledia.com/news/24911.html I read the specs at the bottom and just about died at how crappy those specs are. I realize it was 4 years ago, but it's just funny to think how technology has changed so...

Quote: Originally Posted by huntm856 I still have one of my old StarTACs lying around. Don't know where the charger is so I have no way of seeing if it still works though. get a univeral cell phone battery charger off ebay for a buck and try thats what I did lol

Quote: Originally Posted by GUILTYTIBURON I have had mine since I started with sprint 10 years now. Sometimes I get service in places where my friends on sprint dont. Like you still use it as your everyday phone? Now that's what I call durability

We had a built-in mobile phone in our Volvo back in the mid-80's. It was a corded handset that attached to the console of the car and dialing/answer/hangup was done from the back of that handset. And it did speakerphone too. We were cool beans back in the day! Cellular One was our service provider and the phone was branded to them, but I have no idea who actually made it. Here's a StarTac:

I still have one of my old StarTACs lying around. Don't know where the charger is so I have no way of seeing if it still works though.

My first Sprint phone was the Sanyo 8100, in June of 2003. It would still work if the flip mechanism hadn't crapped out. It was one badass phone at the time. Camera, internet, etc. I could actually check my email on my phone AND send links to pics taken WITH that phone to other phones! Was like Whoaaaa!

Quote: Originally Posted by larry I still have one of these as well but haven't turned it on in years. Could this phone still be activated? Does it have GPS? Just for the record my first Sprint phone was a Samsung SCH-1000. Can anyone top that for oldness? Yeah it could, No GPS

Quote: Originally Posted by civilizedhood Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 7.11) Sprint PPC6850SP) Still have my sanyo 4000, turn it on every once in a while....sanyos are tanks I still have one of these as well but haven't turned it on in years. Could this phone still be activated? Does it have GPS? Just for the record my first Sprint phone was a Samsung SCH-1000. Can anyone top that for oldness?

If anyone has an old phone they don't want you can send it my way. I have a niche for collecting Sprint phones