Vintage Mobile Phones

The home of the vintage mobile phone

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Welcome to Vintage Mobile Phones. The home of the vintage mobile phone & vintage cell phone.

This site was recently featured in the Mail on Sunday (August 2009) and phones from this site were featured in the BBC4 series - Electric Dreams (October 2009).

Call them "The Brick" "Retro" "Classic" "Old School" or simply "Vintage", this site is where you can find out more about and buy those old phones. Whether you are a collector, or interested in a phone as a toy, prop or to put on the mantlepiece, we have phones from non-working to mint-in-the-box, and prices to suit all pockets. Most of the phones for sale here are Motorolas as these were the most popular of the early mobile phones, however other makes are listed for sale. If the phone you are interested in is not listed here, then please check back regularly, as other phones will be listed.

Phones fall into two categories. Analogue or Digital. The first mobile phones were all analogue, and these are for display only, as the analogue network is only operated in a few areas of the world now. The digital network was introduced in 1992 and within a few years became the network of choice. The early digital phones, that you will find for sale here, operate on 900Mhz, which was the first digital network. It is still widely used (02 and Vodafone in the UK). Which means that some of the big brick phones can still be used today.

Even though many of the phones are display items only, prices have risen sharply over the last two years. A Motorola 8000x, sold in August 2009 for over $5000 on eBay.com (Item no - 230366911862)

Please also check out our other retro site vintagepersonalstereos.com

Payment can be made from your bank account or with a credit card - via Paypal. If you wish to pay by another method, than please email us. Paypal is the safest form of payment as it means we have no access to your banking details and your purchases are protected. Paypal has over 150 million accounts worldwide. If you haven't used Paypal before or don't have an account, see their website for more details. Paypal The "Buy Now" button under each item will take you straight to the Paypal website. You do not need to sign up to Paypal to use the service. You can simply follow the link to "Don't have a Paypal account" and pay instantly by credit card. The service is entirely free to use. We pay the fees.

The story of the mobile phone as we know it started in 1983, with the Motorola DynaTac 8000x. Before then phones had been available in cars, in bags and with a battery the size of a small country. For a complete history of early phones see Wikipedia and Salford

We are happy to send more information or photos on any of the phones we have for sale, but we cannot answer other e-mail enquiries. We receive a large number of e-mails every day, asking us to identify phones, asking us to give valuations, offering us phones for sale and asking us where to sell phones. Unfortunately we can no longer reply to these types of enquiry.

We have managed to source all the accessories needed for the Motorola brick phones - Batteries, Antenna, Chargers & Adaptors - See Motorola Accessories page for details.

We have also managed to source toy brick and flip phones, which are perfect for a fancy dress party or as a theatre prop - See Everything Else for details.

Site updated on 3rd September 2010.

Below are the current phones for sale. Phones marked with * can still be used on modern networks (GSM900) and are fully operational.

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