I was 26 or 27. It was a Sony CM-H333 aka the "Mars Bar" analog ("1G") phone.
Exciting features include:
- Holds 13 saved phone numbers - 3 one-touch buttons and 10 2-button numbers.
- Small (for the time) form factor
- Answer calls by flipping up the grey ear piece, and hang up by flipping it down.
- Charging base
- Wrist strap
- Optional leather case (which I had).
Being an analog phone, there was no such thing as texting, no "contacts" (just a handful of phone numbers could be stored), and certainly no data capabilities of any kinds.
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I never had one, never seen a point to owning one when my house phone is way cheaper. I think I paid 5 bucks for my telephone in 1990s and its still works today.
Don't have to worry about drop calls, voice mail, and so on
Plus I don't have to carry it with me. I think cellphones are stupid
Damn I think I'm the youngest lol, I got mine at six dad had made me memorise his number as my mother was off her rockers a bit and liked to go gallivanting across the country and block his visiting attempts. He wanted me to always be able to contact him in case anything toobad happens, I still remember calling the police on her a few times... Such fun memories lol
My first mobile phone I got at 15 but when it got shut off I never hooked it up again just used it to take pictures of me and my friends.. my next cellphone I got just to make international calls to my boyfriend and other online friends when I was 21 then I always had a cellphone but almost never use it for calls lol.
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It wasnโt a thing when I got one, they were very expensive to even have a service for much less buy and I bought it myself at 25 and the only thing the with the use for was voice calls since there was no texting or such thing as a smart phone
I think I was 15 or 16 and got the nokia brick phone, it was such a thing of beauty, not having to be next to the land line anymore when I wanted to get laid... or have someone else pick up and listen, truly a paradigm shift.
I had just a dumb phone until I was 16. I bought a smartphone for first money I earned. It wasn't because of money and it was a little bit embarrassing being among kids with Iphones and Galaxies which cost more than a used car. However it didn't kill me.
I think 12, so not too soon after starting high school. It was not a smartphone and it was really just for safety reasons although I had some music downloaded.
I know you didnโt ask but when I have children I feel like I want to give them phones at the same age but I donโt want their phones/devices to be able to access the internet until like 14/15. I know that might seem strict but I feel like I was exposed to some things too early lol.
20 to 22, somewhere in that. I was already in Japan living there and they were ahead of us at the time... that stupid slide-out keyboard was so futuristic back then. Last I was in Japan... the technology evened out... as far as phones go.
I'm not sure. The company I worked for gave all it's field agents flip phones soon after they came out, probably around 1996 or7.
I must have gotten my own around 2010 when I retired after 30 years at age 56. It was an iPhone.I was 27, it was one of those brick phones for in the car. I also had a satellite phone. It was a work phone because I would be dropped off in the middle of Northern, Ontario to do mine claim work, and had to check in.
Late 20's maybe. I fought it as long as I could. People kept getting mad at me because they couldn't get ahold of me. I used to piss them off because when they said "how am I supposed to get ahold of you"? I'd tell them, "stick your head out the window and yell".
16. or 13. It was in middle school, aaand it was a trash phone but it was the beginning. No internet, pay per text and was a cheese block. (not like a brick)
Thanks to you I took a trip back in cellphone land & I rounded up my first phones.
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I was 8 years old. Now I know it was too early but at that time I was crazy about mobile phones, so I really wanted to have one.
I was 42. It was one of these
18 - first cellphone. Bought with my hard earned money doing unofficial back-breaking manual labor.
22 - first smartphone. Also bought with my hard earned money but with a employment contract this time.
I was 16 or 17. Funnily back then I always feared clicking on the internet button since it was very expensive.
Got a flip phone in the 4th grade. My parents were adamant that it was only for them to call me lol
12 and it was some sort of a slide phone kinda like this but neon green. I'm not sure of it's specific model tho.
I was 10 but I had to share it with two of my brothers 🙄
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I got my first mobile phone when I was 10 or 11 years old :)
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I was 20 years old... lol
When I was 12 but it was taken away after 2 years. I have a tablet now.
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