What was your first cell phone?

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SoftCliff · Accepted Answer

Some Sony Ericsson phone (can't recall the model number) back in the late 00's Best part was that it was extremely durable. I remember smartphones were the next best thing, but I didn't get one until 2011; a Samsung galaxy.

menina · Accepted Answer

Trium I feel so nostalgic...

MrOracle · Answer

This was my first phone, from around 1996. This was in the analog cell phone days, and this was the smallest phone on the market at the time (you laugh now, but you should have seen the huge bricks that were common at the time). It was nicknamed the "Mars Bar" because of it's small size and the ridges on the battery that kind of looked like peanuts in a candy bar. You answered calls by sliding up the gray square earpiece with your thumb (as seen in both pics), and you slid it down to hang up. It featured the ability to store 13(!) phone numbers - 10 standard and 3 "one-button" speed dials. The battery was the latest tech at the time, NiMH (Lithium batteries were still a few years away).

For those who don't know, analog phones didn't have texts or anything else - you could make calls, and you had voice mail, and that was it - and voice mail was still new and exciting, being computer-based and not requiring a dedicated answering machine with tape inside.

When I got this phone, cell phones were still the exception rather than the norm - I think 4 people in my 70-person office had one - but they'd become somewhat more common since the 80s, when they were the exclusive realm of celebrities, Wall Street investors, and major drug dealers. In the early 90s, upper-middle class people started having car phones (cell phones that were permanently installed in the car), and portables only became reasonably affordable around 1992-1993, and they were quite a bit larger than this one for a few years.

Around the time I bought my Sony, the original Motorola "flip phone" was becoming very popular, and was soon the most common cell phone in the world by 1998.

Chazmatazz269 · Answer

I don’t remember exactly. I never had a flip phone though. I had one kinda fat phone that i had to extend the antenna on. Maybe i didn’t have to. I never tried calling without extending the antenna. Ell oh ell!
My next phone was a tiny “smart phone”. I remember having Virgin Mobile service, but i’m not sure which company manufactured the phone; $30/month! Those were the days! Ha!

hahahmm · Answer

Had a job where I had to use this But my first personal cell was something like the Motorola D160 something or other

Ian69 · Answer

If I remember right, mine was the Nokia 702. Which was originally run by Orange, which is now EE.

Anonymous · Answer

A tracphone. I didn't want a phone but people kept getting mad at me because I was not "reachable". And they got mad when they asked "how am I supposed to contact you in an emergency" and I replied "stick your head out the window and yell". 🤣🤣🤣

Nash62826 · Answer

A samsung phone the small black one with the buttons, i was 7. Saved all my pocket money to buy it and a sim card it was cool. Loved the jewel game that was on it.

DJB72 · Answer

Mine was an Ericsson the size of a house brick with a battery life of about 15 minutes. I had to drive 25 minutes to get a signal on it and I had to plug it into the lighter on the car to use it long enough.

musicbrain5 · Answer

The first phone I had all for myself was a Nokia 3310. Before that, I used to often use my dad’s phones and the car phone.

bolverk · Answer

A Phillips Diga, back end of the 90's a plastic brick, was a handy old thing took a pounding

Kebler · Answer

not sure what it was called, but it was like one of those phones with the Slide-able keyboards.

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

Old Sanyo Sprint Cell Phone

bubblegunnn · Answer

Nokia baby.. mine was the red one

TrueConfection · Answer

This or something like this one.

Anonymous · Answer

My first was a hand me down IPhone 5 but I could not make calls or texts on it.

My first phone that worked was a IPhone 6+ got in 9th grade. That phone later tore up. But after it was decommissioned. But still had it as a back up.

exitseven · Answer

It was sort of like this but not exactly.

Sour-rose · Answer

a fat piece of a brick tracphone... aaand it was a start. I still kinda miss having the keypad buttons instead of on the screen

NerdInDenial · Answer

The Nokia Brick:

ARWINGx1 · Answer

Nokia 7110

Iron_Man · Answer

This old dinosaur

Tina19 · Answer

This was my 1st phone exactly same color same model

Likes2drive · Answer

My first one was 31 years ago, it was Nokia I think, just made calls, had to pull out the antenna for reception, only had 20 minutes a month to use but had free nights and weekends

kellytheman · Answer

My first one was a really small ones before flip phones where the norm. My favorite phone was either my blackberry or the phone that slides then you got a keyboard.

Jdjfjcjj · Answer

It's was a Motorola flip phone with a mirror or something on the top.

LavLavLuv · Answer

bad bitch phone

Rockstarrrrr · Answer

It was a Nokia phone but I don't remember the name...

tfan1 · Answer

Sprint - it was a thin but long one piece phone with pull out antenna

La_isla_bonita23 · Answer

Samsung Galaxy s4 mini

ViceGAG · Answer

Nokia, the one that used to dance when someone called.

Sparkie460 · Answer

I don't remember what brand it was but it had a pull out antenna

Nominal · Answer

can't really remember, i would Lie if i tell you.

Lyndsielee666 · Answer

The Nokia Brick 😂

dustybiker · Answer

I think it was a virgin mobile flip phone.

katiesmuff · Answer

Razor flip phone

Fireguy17 · Answer

A Motorola bag phone.

Dnice1 · Answer

A Samsung flip phone

MountAverage · Answer

Nokia 3310 back in 2003.

Hardworkingguy · Answer

My first phone was a Motorola in 2007

idkwhatsreal · Answer

Motorola v60

slatyb · Answer

Early iPhone.

Blackcupcake · Answer

some LG

Mrsghostface · Answer

Lgenv2

goebenbreslau · Answer

iphone6

Blueeyes81 · Answer

Nokia brick

TheBallGuy · Answer

Nokia X201

gerald5466 · Answer

iPhone 8

Autograf · Answer

Nokia 3310 😂

poline1 · Answer

LG Phone

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