{"id":215,"date":"2011-10-19T11:06:24","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T11:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/?p=215"},"modified":"2011-10-19T15:56:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T15:56:30","slug":"oldest-working-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/oldest-working-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldest working mobile?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friends of mine are planning a &#8220;who has the oldest working mobile&#8221; event. I have an <a href=\"http:\/\/vintage-mobile.livejournal.com\/21297.html\">Orbitel 863<\/a> from about <del datetime=\"2011-10-19T15:54:07+00:00\">1994<\/del> [Edit:] 1992? which I reckon could be a winner. With a bit of searching I found a post in German that gave correct pinouts for the battery. In a quick test the mobile powers up OK without a SIM. Given it is a somewhat powerful radio transmitter and it is missing its antenna I haven&#8217;t dared try anything else yet. Anyway, here are some photos.<\/p>\n<p>Edit: Another source on the web dates this mobile to 1994 without giving any evidence. From the design and what I know of its history I would say it was a very early GSM mobile and 1994 feels a bit late. There are various date codes visible on the boards and body castings. The latest date code I can see is &#8220;21 92&#8221; (ie week 21, 1992) on the main circuit board. Therefore I believe that this is a phone from 1992.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sharpie777\/6259885379\/\" title=\"Orbitel 863 Phone guts by Sharpie777, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6049\/6259885379_cd2d53ee62_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Orbitel 863 Phone guts\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sharpie777\/6259895641\/\" title=\"Orbitel 863 handset powered up by Sharpie777, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6031\/6259895641_ba2cd68c0a_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Orbitel 863 handset powered up\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sharpie777\/6259895137\/\" title=\"Orbitel 863 main board view by Sharpie777, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6180\/6259895137_6342820680_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Orbitel 863 main board view\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends of mine are planning a &#8220;who has the oldest working mobile&#8221; event. I have an Orbitel 863 from about 1994 [Edit:] 1992? which I reckon could be a winner. With a bit of searching I found a post in German that gave correct pinouts for the battery. In a quick test the mobile powers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lushprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}