{"id":133,"date":"2005-05-19T08:10:39","date_gmt":"2005-05-19T07:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=133"},"modified":"2025-02-01T03:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T03:04:17","slug":"retrofone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/2005\/05\/19\/retrofone\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrofone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retrofone.com\">Retrofone<\/a> is a fairly new company that sells older model mobile phones. It seems that this may be where some of the those traded in phones are actually going. The company has a whole range of old models for sale on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retrofone.com\">website<\/a>. They have all of the old favourites including the Nokia 7110 and 6210. The 6210 being interesting because I still use a 6210 as my main mobile phone (it doesn&#8217;t even have a color screen). The prices seem reasonable and the service looks adaquate with a 30 day guarantee on purchases.<\/p>\n<p>The site also offers some really old units including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retrofone.com\/index.php?cPath=39\">analogue units<\/a>. I suppose these are useful today only as historical oddities, or possibly for use on some ancient network in a remote part of the world. Although is there anywhere that doesn&#8217;t have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsmworld.com\/roaming\/gsminfo\/index.shtml\">GSM network<\/a> these days?<\/p>\n<p>[From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\">The Guardian<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retrofone is a fairly new company that sells older model mobile phones. It seems that this may be where some of the those traded in phones are actually going. The company has a whole range of old models for sale on their website. They have all of the old favourites including the Nokia 7110 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}