For Sale Intex AquaFish (running Jolla C)- USA [Price update]
 

Hey all I have moved on to SailfishX and my days of needing a device to hack on are behind me.

There is now only one device, the Intex AquaFish has all its original packaging and I am looking to sell it for $100 USD + Shipping or Best Offer.

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It has a rather politically appropriate vinyl stickers, they can stay on or be taken off, up to the buyer.

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Please PM if you are interested.

Re: For Sale Jolla C & Intex AquaFish (running Jolla C)- USA
 

You might find that pricing is slightly optimistic since XperiaX available as slightly used AquaFish albeit without box recently sold for $82 delivered in UK:https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Intex-Aqu...19.m1438.l2649

Re: For Sale Jolla C & Intex AquaFish (running Jolla C)- USA
 

Thanks I adjusted it to encourage folks to make offers.

Re: For Sale Jolla C & Intex AquaFish (running Jolla C)- USA
 

Heh, once long ago back in the times when cellphones still had antaennas I had a cat who had irrisistable urge to chew on all phone antennas!

Luckily there's no such external chewybits appendages in 'em any longer :D

Re: For Sale Jolla C & Intex AquaFish (running Jolla C)- USA
 

My first mobile phone had a retractable antenna you had to pull out before making a call. That was 20 years ago. Only this year did I learn that it was a con. The "antenna" was a useless piece of plastic, only to give the user the illusion of having some impact on the phone's operation. The real antenna was fixed.

Re: For Sale Jolla C & Intex AquaFish (running Jolla C)- USA
 

Hmm, what was the device you had then?
If I remember correctly my very first "mobile" phone was Siemens nmt-910 which had a fixed antenna. Of course you cannot ever be totally sure (and I never disassembled it) but it looked like it was a functional piece.

The device that fascinated my cat was a Nokia 2110i which indeed has a retractable antenna whip on top of a helix stub.
This at least I am sure was a functional piece as I did take those devices apart several times.

Re: For Sale Jolla C & Intex AquaFish (running Jolla C)- USA
 

Motorola MicroTAC. Can't remember which model exactly but the display was LCD with battery and signal strength indicators, not LED.

I have no idea where the name came from. Literally nothing about it was "micro", even at the time. Well, maybe the battery life.

Main features:

• The weight of a small brick
• A full-size SIM card (the size of a credit card)
• Up to 12 hours battery life (standby, not talk)
• Could receive SMS but not send
• Received texts, even from contacts on the contact list, would only display the number, not the name (the same issue would plague other Motorola phones for years to come)
• Context-dependent volume control:
  - with the keyboard cover closed, it would control the ringer volume
  - with the keyboard cover open, it would control the key press volume
  - during the call, it would control the headset volume
  This meant that I missed a few calls because the ringer volume was pushed all the way down accidentally by other objects in the suitcase.

But it set a trend. All my phones for the next 10 years were Motorolas ;) Never had a Nokia until the N900.
I gave it away in 1998. I should have kept it, it could fetch a nice price nowadays if still functional.

Re: For Sale Intex AquaFish (running Jolla C)- USA [Price update]
 

The JollaC was sold, still have the Intel Aquafish.

Re: For Sale Intex AquaFish (running Jolla C)- USA [Price update]
 

I'm interested in the intex but can't p.m you as i've only just registered on the site! not sure what my options are

Re: For Sale Intex AquaFish (running Jolla C)- USA [Price update]
 

@ziggystan what country are you in, as that seems to be the challenge in keeping costs down