Given the current state of the economy, I can’t think of a better way to jumpstart your gadget addiction than to start giving away more mobile devices. In this installment of the Gadget Stimulus Plan we launched in April, we are offering an UNLOCKED refurbished red BlackBerry Pearl 8100, courtesy of geeks.com. Read on for more details:
The Pearl offers Blackberry’s famous email client, web browser, a SureType QWERTY keyboard, a 2.2.5" light-sensitive screen, a 1.3MP camera, and worldwide (quad-band) GSM antenna with EDGE connectivity for data. Being unlocked, you can use this phone on either T-mobile service or on AT&T without the need for a renewal of your contract. Just put your SIM card in and you’re ready to go!
There are three ways to enter:
1) For GBM contestants: What was your first mobile phone? Answers need to go in the comments section.
2) For Notebooks.com contestants: Have you ever bought a refurbished device? What was your experience and would you recommend refurbished products to your friends and family? Reply in the comments section.
3) Tweet about this! Send out a tweet to all your friends letting them know you entered this contest. Just copy and paste the following:
I entered to win a BB 8100 from GBM and Notebooks.com’s Gadget Stimulus Plan #GadgetStimulusBB. Thx @ComputerGeeks! http://bit.ly/vOhzO
You can enter up to three times, one for each option.
A random drawing will be held Friday June 5th on all eligible entries.
This contest is open to U.S. residents only.
My first mobile phone was a Motorola V557 which was a very nice flip phone.
My first was some sort of ancient Nokia from AT&T in the early 90′s.
My first was a Motorola bag phone circa 1992
My first phone was some puny little brick that friend gave me while living in the SW of England. I don’t recall the name of it, but it was a pay-as-you-go that ran on the Orange network. Not bad for free. Green screen.
My first Mobile phone was a blue Siemens I got in Chengdu, China in 2002.
I don’t remember exactly what my first phone was. But my second phone was a Samsung
First mobile phone – a Motorola flip phone with a stubby antenna that finally broke.
My first phone was a Motorola i855 on Boost Mobile. I soon realized that iDEN is a terrible network after exchanging my first few text messages and noticing how you have to download each new message. I’m still using it alongside a SIM-less Nokia E71 (which will get a SIM when I leave for a year of study in Israel in August).
My first mobile phone was a Samsung C-100.
My first mobile phone was an Alcatel One Touch back in 2001. Someone stole it.
This would be my first mobile phone.
My first mobile phone was a Motorola w490. I loved that little black phone, and was disappointed when it succumbed to the death grip of the bathroom sink. All good things come to an end, or so they say.
My first mobile phone was a Motorola Dyna TAC 6000 which was a car phone (permanently mounted in my car.) This was during the mid 80′s before the size of handsets shrunk. The only portable at that time was the Motorola brick phone.
I had a nokia 6150. Solid phone but clunky (compared to today).
My first phone would have to be this black “thing” my mother had with cingular. I for the life of me can’t tell you it’s name, or brand, but it had a menu, with for options, one being contacts. It was so basic compared to what’s out there today
I have never owned a mobile phone. I have on occasion borrowed family members phones. If I won this phone I would use it with the at&t go phone plan.
I had a Nokia 6150. It was a great phone for its day. I’m kind of sad that Nokia isn’t available through the carrier subsidized route. Still love their style. But a Blackberry would be truly awesome.
My first phone was a pay-as-you-go motorola phone from AT & T. It was the tiniest thing and didn’t even do color. :)
Bag phone
4 watts of signal gathering greatness.
These new wimpy half watt phones are disappointing
compared to my bag phone.
I live in a mountianous rural area.
I think it was either a motorola v60 or a nokia bar phone. Can’t remember which one came first :p
My first mobile phone was a TracPhone. I used their service until I went to AT&T and am on a regular account instead of pay per call.
I had an NEC of some kind, the first non-bag phone offered by Cellular One is ’92 or ’93. About a year later I got a Motorola Alphastar and kept it for years. Now I alternate between Nokia and Motorola flips every couple years.
My first phone was a Nextel device issued by my company. Wow, how I hated the walkie talkie mode.
About 1988 – Motorola Micr-Tac, I think. Then something from Nextel. THings have certainly improved.
my first phone was a samsung flip phone. i can’t remember the model.