The history of mobile phone use in the Year of the Tiger (1998~2022)

1998 is the year of the tiger. One of the most sensational songs in the Spring Festival Gala that year was "Meet 98" sung by Faye Wong and Na Ying. Many years later, MCA FunAge's Goodbye Mr. Loser became an instant hit, and the protagonist crossed back to 1998 to pay tribute to this Spring Festival Evening and this song.

I was in Beijing that year.

Going home and having a reunion with classmates during the Spring Festival, talking about banquets, the wine is booming.

We are about to go to work, no matter ordinary or extraordinary, everyone has a beautiful vision in his heart.

From students to work, this is a major change in life identity.

Someone asked, what is your near-term goal?

Several boys thought in unison: well, try to make money, try to buy computers, mobile phones and cars.

This rhythm is not quite right for the Year of the Tiger in 24 years. The 2022 graduates are about to join the work. Presumably, the main goal will be to provide a suite, right?

This is the difference of the times. From 65438 to 0998, the income of ordinary workers in first-tier cities was around 600 yuan. The house price in Beijing's Fourth Ring Road does not exceed 3,000 yuan/flat, while a home laptop is at least 30,000 yuan to 50,000 yuan; A mobile phone, not to mention 4 thousand, has started; Needless to say, the four-wheeled car, the most popular sedan Jetta, also needs more than 65438+100000. These were symbols of luxury and status in those days. What is a house?

Now the house price in Beijing's Fourth Ring Road is 3,000, not to mention. Even if it is 30,000 yuan/ping, I don't know where to find it within the Eighth Ring Road.

After joining the work, I lived in the basement rented by the group near Beijing TV Station. Go to the toilet every day around the main building of the Central University of Finance and Economics. Because the bathroom here is very clean, and there is a partition between squatting positions. After coming out, you can sit quietly in the amphitheatre for a while and pretend that you are also a student here.

I was lucky that year. I just graduated and entered a good foreign company with a higher salary. But the salary in January still can't afford to buy a mobile phone with the lowest price. I didn't want to go to Guangzhou for a business trip in the middle of the year, but I needed a mobile phone, so the company rented a mobile phone and number for people on business trips. I remember it was Motorola 8200. At that time, a whole mobile phone card was as big as an ID card and could be put into the fuselage. Unlike today, you need to cut the card open to put it in, and it is getting smaller and smaller.

Hand in your mobile phone when you come back from a business trip. But after getting used to the beauty and convenience of mobile phones, I began to feel that I couldn't live without them. The company's travel allowance is also high, so when I go back to Beijing for a business trip in January, I can get a mobile phone after calculating the allowance and adding the salary of that month. I didn't expect to realize my dream of owning a mobile phone so soon, so I went to the mobile phone market for a weekend without hesitation. I chose the first mobile phone in my life.

That's a German brand mobile phone, Siemens S4, the size of a quarter brick, and the antenna can be stretched. If you pull it all out, it can almost be used as a fishing rod. The preferential price of mobile phone is 2200 yuan, but it is not only for sale, but also for merchants to choose to access the network, otherwise it is not the price. Internet access was also expensive. 1650 yuan. So the full price of mobile phone+number is 3850 yuan. Moreover, the cost of mobile phones in those days was not low. The monthly landline fee is 50 yuan, and the local call is 0.4 yuan per minute. The most hateful thing is two-way charging. Compared with the price of less than 3 thousand square meters in Beijing, think about it, it's really coquettish.

This S4 mobile phone has been used for two years. In 2000, I went to Guangzhou to work, and I was going to change to a smaller and very comfortable mobile phone: Motorola V998. This mobile phone 1999 was born in July and has become a magical machine. This was the smallest and most exquisite mobile phone at that time, and the price immediately rose to more than 8000 yuan. Even after a year, it is painful to buy domestic licensed goods at around 5000. However, there are many parallel markets in Guangzhou, selling Hong Kong version machines, which is about one-third cheaper than Bank of China. However, the parallel market is mixed, and many unscrupulous vendors often sell second-hand mobile phones with water as brand-new machines, which is difficult to distinguish between true and false. I bought a Hong Kong version of V998 at Dashatou electric appliance market for 2300 yuan.

After another year, the society is changing with each passing day, and the popularity of mobile phones is very fast. Many domestic brands have appeared, and the prices are getting closer to the people. With the popularity of Shenzhouxing and other services, thousands of Internet access fees have disappeared, and the threshold for owning a mobile phone has been greatly reduced. As a status symbol, mobile phones have declined. Unfortunately, the V998 I bought in the parallel market is really a second-hand mobile phone that was refurbished after entering the water. While cursing the damn unscrupulous vendors, I plan to change another mobile phone.

At that time, I thought, if only I had a mobile phone that could hold two cards. Unexpectedly, I soon saw this idea in the market. Of course, I didn't know it was a fake dual-card phone until I bought it.

This is Amoi A8 198. At that time, the advertising spokesperson was a little swallow that was red and purple. This is the first mobile phone with built-in dual card function. So despite the ugly design of this machine, I bought it at the price of 1780 yuan.

Why is this a fake dual-card mobile phone? Because it can't stand by at the same time. Just insert two cards, and then transfer a number call to another card. So, I think buying this mobile phone is cheated.

When I found it superficial, I began to think about what kind of machine to change.

Initially, in the late 1990s, the big names in the mobile phone industry were Motorola, Nokia and Ericsson. Then Ericsson fell, and Samsung came up soon. When I came to the mobile phone market on the cemetery road, it also became a distribution center for mobile phones in Hong Kong. Very lively. I chose a red clamshell machine, Hong Kong version of Samsung SGH-A408, 3200 yuan.

I didn't expect this mobile phone to be the first one specially designed for women. In particular, some functions such as physiological period are added to reflect the theme of women. Wonderful ringtones and novel styles are irresistible.

I bought it unwittingly and used it happily, even though some people said it was for women only. Later, it was found that there were quite a few men who used this machine.

But this machine only took less than a year. In June 2002, I once left my mobile phone in the bathroom on the 26th floor of Wuhan Plaza, and forgot it when I left. I remember it about 10 minutes later. Go back and have a look. After that, it was gone. The phone is off and I can't get through. I don't know who took it.

No way, mobile phones are necessary these days, so I temporarily filled in a mobile phone number, but I didn't like a new machine at the moment. On second thought, I'd better buy a V998. At that time, this machine had been upgraded to V998+, a brand new licensed machine, as long as 1500 yuan.

At that time, among the three giants of mobile phone brands, Nokia had the largest share, but I never used it, because I didn't like mobile phones with built-in antennas at that time, and Nokia's styles were all built-in.

But at the end of 2002, another epoch-making new machine appeared. Nokia 7650. This is the first mobile phone with a built-in camera that can take pictures. Although the pixels were not high at that time, with this function, this machine can already seal the gods. Since then, the trend of sneak shots has prevailed, which is inseparable from the shooting function of mobile phones. At the beginning of 2003, I finally bought this mobile phone for 4800 yuan. Still far higher than the average monthly salary at that time.

At this time, another concept appeared, that is, business mobile phone. Compared with other functional machines, business mobile phones have a great feature, that is, they are equipped with a touch screen, which can be used for handwriting, and the mobile phone will be equipped with a stylus. I'm getting hooked on handwritten money.

However, the price of business mobile phones is relatively high, so I subdivided my positioning. Am I addicted to handwritten money? Still struggling with the business model? Finally, I think I should be addicted to writing money and hand. As a result, I fixed my eyes on another machine, NEC's N6 10. And bought at the end of 2004, 3200 yuan.

This machine has a fashionable appearance. Compared with ordinary touch-screen mobile phones, its body is petite, and some people put on a mobile phone rope to hang around their necks, which is also quite fashionable.

But my sense of use is beautiful and useless, flashy. The experience of the stylus is very poor.

However, after that, my habit began to tend to touch-screen mobile phones.

In 2005, smart phones began to appear. The price of domestic machines began to rise slowly, led by Lenovo. At that stage, Lenovo changed its trademark LGOG and built a smart phone with 2.8-inch screen and Windows system-Lenovo ET960. IT attracted the attention of people in the IT field at that time. Because of its appearance, it is nicknamed "kitchen knife". Seen from the back, this mobile phone really looks like a kitchen knife.

In June 2005, I spent 6500 yuan to own this "kitchen knife". It was also from this mobile phone that the concept of mobile phone screen film came into being.

However, the price/performance ratio of this mobile phone is really not good. Moreover, once it is automatically turned off due to power failure, the factory settings will be automatically restored in a few minutes, and all the data on the mobile phone will be cleared. This BUG is really regrettable. And after using it for more than a year, the battery of the mobile phone has become extremely durable, so I have to consider changing the mobile phone.

In September 2006, Nokia introduced a new model N95. Its camera pixel is as high as 5 million, and the initial price is as high as 8600 yuan. Using double slide technology, the push-up is a key, the push-down is a music control, and the card machine is behind. However, the official leather case of this machine is very heavy. At that time, the price of new machines fell sharply in a short time. By the beginning of 2008, I bought this mobile phone for 4000 yuan. The arrival of the new year will also open the history of Nokia's demise, from the eve of the function machine to the smart phone, Nokia's last glory.

Of course, N95 couldn't restrain my love for touch-screen handwriting, so a year later, I changed to a touch-screen smartphone.

At that time, a brand in Taiwan Province Province, China, rose in the mainland and was named "dopod". And its name in Taiwan Province Province is "HTC".

At that time, the company's smart phones were very popular, but the company's Sao operations were also endless. HTC is much cheaper than dopod for the same model and different brands. Although HTC was not sold in China at that time, it could not stop the surging parallel market. And before long, HTC officially took the card in mainland China and killed its brother dopod.

After the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, I went to the parallel market and bought Dopod P860' s twin brother: Hong Kong HTC Cruis, equipped with Windows Mobile6.0 system. The promotion slogan of this machine is: it is recommended that business people with a certain economic foundation start. However, the Hong Kong version of the machine not only has Wi-Fi that is not available in licensed products, but also is much cheaper, selling for 3,800 yuan.

This machine has only been used for one year, and the power button is not very bright. At this stage, HTC's new machines emerge one after another, and all kinds of diamond cuts are itchy. So when the power button went wrong, I persuaded myself to trade in the old one and bought an HTC Touch HD in the port market.

This machine is amazing, with a large 3.8-inch display screen, which is amazing. According to the publicity, the resolution reached an astonishing 480,800 pixels. This pixel, if launched by mobile phone today, will definitely have a very shocking effect, haha.

Now facing the 6-inch, 7-inch and 8-inch folding screens, I can't imagine that 3.8-inch can be called a panoramic view, which can actually bring a shocking feeling. How does the giant screen of 3.8 bring a sense of shock? I remember with my heart, but I can't understand it anymore.

20 10 ends, expecting the realization of real dual card dual standby. HTC and China Telecom jointly launched a customized version of HTC dual-engine 9 199 mobile phone with a price of 5,800 yuan. However, because this is the special fund of telecom, we can only use the telecom card to access the Internet with 3G function, while the mobile card has only 2G function, so we can make phone calls and send short messages.

HTC dual engine 9 199 is still equipped with Windows Mobile system. These days, it's almost the era when Android and Mac are popular. Although I amuse myself with 9 199, people around me have installed WeChat on their mobile phones, and they can search for nearby heterosexual exchanges with a shake. When they started playing Angry Birds again, I could only watch them, because the W system could not download these apps.

In 20 12, most of my friends changed to wechat instead of QQ, and my mobile phone has no wechat function, which is out of date. I had to give up 9 199 and spend 4700 yuan to buy HTC one S for Android, which is also a customized model for telecom.

Since then, I have officially used Android and WeChat. However, Angry Birds don't seem so popular. . . . .

20 14 uses HTC one s. Because of the deep cooperation between the company and LG Group in the past two years, all the Koreans we met used LG mobile phones. I borrowed it for fun. I think it's good. I think it's time to change my mobile phone again. Let's change it to LG. That's what I did, so I bought a LG G3 with my internal relationship, 3000 yuan, which is several hundred yuan cheaper than the market price. The power button of this phone is on the back. When the front screen is black, just tap the screen twice to open the interface. Many people don't know. So I am proud to introduce this function to many people. At the same time, this will be the last mobile phone with detachable battery I will use.

In 20 16, the domestic brand Huawei mobile phone has become very famous. The P9 mobile phone released by Huawei in London this year started the popularization of multi-cameras. This new structure always attracts me, so I didn't hesitate to spend 3688 yuan to buy a P9 Plus.

After that, even though I became attached to Huawei, I never changed other brands. Although the price of Huawei mobile phones is getting higher and higher, mobile phones are not luxury goods after all, but more and more popular necessities.

20 17 replaced Huawei Mate9 Pro, RMB 5488;

20 18 replaced Huawei Mate 10 Pro, RMB 5688;

20 19 replaced Huawei Mate30 Pro, RMB 6299.

In 2020, the era of folding screen came, and Huawei Mate XS appeared, which suddenly surprised the whole world. Of course, the price is also considerable 16999 yuan. Official website hasn't got it yet. In August, I happened to visit a shopping mall and saw a Huawei store. The clerk warmly received me at the door, so I asked casually. Actually, there was a spot without increasing the price, so I bought it immediately, just like how cheap it was.

However, the screen of XS is folded outward, and the screen with camera after folding is very small. If you take a selfie or deduct points from your driver's license, you need to learn traffic regulations videos online and capture learning images at any time, which is very inconvenient.

202 1, Huawei Mate X2 came out, and the starting price of 5 12G was 18999 yuan, which was 2000 yuan higher than XS. The auxiliary screen is a 6.5-inch screen that folds inward. After opening, it is a perfect 8-inch screen, which satisfies all my imaginations of folding mobile phones. However, XS has only been used for less than a year. Isn't it a little too fast to change such an expensive mobile phone? I can see the corresponding propaganda on the internet every day, but I still can't help but itch. After I get X2, I will definitely use it for several years. It was under such psychological persuasion that I bought X2 in official website, which was the first time I bought a mobile phone online.

This is the history of my mobile phone from 1998 to the year of the tiger in 2022. Interestingly, I have never used these two mainstream mobile phones. Apple and Samsung are a little different.