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The old mobile phones we're still hanging on to - and why we miss using them

These days a mobile phone can do everything from video calling and shooting a film to paying bills and finding your way around a city. Most of this was unthinkable not too many years ago when internet on a mobile phone was limited to those extremely basic WAP websites, their cameras - if they had them - were notoriously terrible, and the screens sometimes weren't much better than a pocket calculator.

However, new research has revealed people in the UK still have plenty of nostalgia for the handsets of yesteryear, with a whopping 3 in 5 holding onto to old mobiles.

A Sky Mobile study of 2,000 adults found a lot of love for hanging on to brands that aren't quite as ubiquitous as they once were with 36 per cent of those hanging on to an old phone owning Nokia devices, and 15 per cent Motorola. The once dominant Blackberry is held on to by 9 per cent.

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