What was your first mobile phone, ERA?

[Lightning Count]

Ok, time for a trip down memory lane. What was the first mobile phone you owned?

For me it was the Nokia 6610i, I was very late in owning a mobile phone compared to a lot of people, I actually bought my first one around New Year 2004 when my girlfriend convinced me to finally buy one so we could be in touch when we were apart. Classic brick phone design, it even had a camera, but was very basic and the image quality was OK at best.

Sadly I didn't keep it for very long, because it got stolen at work, I was working at supermarket and the rules prohibited staff from having their phones on their person during work. Apparently someone heard it ringing in the staff room when I was on a shift and broke into my locker and stole it, I had only had it for about 5 months as well.

 

[PlanetSmasher]

An earlier version of that Nokia you linked in the OP. I remember how excited I was to have a cheap beepy MIDI of the MacGyver theme song as my ringtone.

Edit: this bastard.

 

[maximumzero]

Nokia 3300

Wanted an iPod but they were out of my price range so this was a middle-ground compromise. Worked pretty well for me throughout my college years.

 

[Gernau Morat Gurgeh]

Some kind of incredibly basic Alcatel handset that had a screen with like 2 lines of LCD text.

 

[Shadybiz]

It was a Qualcomm...something or other. I'm an old fart, so this was back when they still had extendable antennas, lol.

 

[Wraith]

 

[Azurik]

Good old Nokia 5110

 

[Lightning Count]

Nokia 3300

Wanted an iPod but they were out of my price range so this was a middle-ground compromise. Worked pretty well for me throughout my college years.

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What an odd shape, reminds me a bit of the N-Gage.

 

[Septimus Prime]

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I think mine was an earlier/bigger/uglier version of this.

 

[Deleted member 47700]

You could replace under the transparent cover with different designs, maybe the most 2000s phone ever.

 

[Stronginthearm]

My first personal mobile phone was a sony xperia tipo, but before that we had a 'family' mobile phone which was a nokia 3310.

 

[Ryuelli]

Something close to this. I think it was LG though:

 

[Superpupperbabysassy]

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This on AT&T go

 

[SirMossyBloke]

I've been trying to find it on the internet for years and just cant. It was a silver chocolate bar shaped silver phone from Nokia. Quite chunky but awesome. Back in about 1998.

 

[Lightning Count]

You could replace under the transparent cover with different designs, maybe the most 2000s phone ever.

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That button layout looks super awkward to me, 2 numbers per button is just wrong.

 

[manzoman96]

This guy right here

 

[SnakeXs]

Edit: I lied, it was:

 

[Perzeval]

Siemens of all makers. Guess the market was really up for grabs back then.

 

[lt519]

The push to talk was a ton of fun with friends, especially fun to prank them.

 

[Lightning Count]

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That looks a lot like the phone from the very first Skate game.

 

[Deleted member 47700]

That button layout looks super awkward to me, 2 numbers per button is just wrong.

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I don't recall having a problem with it but then again it's not like I used regular number pads a tonne before it.

 

[thebeeks]

It also had the Cingular logo right underneath the screen.

 

[Cam]

Nokia Startac, then went quiet for awhile, then jumped on the Helio Ocean, a super unknown phone

 

[TAJ]

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Mine looked exactly like this, but with Virgin Mobile branding, around the first week of 2003.

 

[Perzeval]

It also had the Cingular logo right underneath the screen.

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That reminds me of one phone I got later when I made my own money to spend. Did it come in black & chrome with a red knight rider type notification light on the outside?

 

[AlwaysSalty]

Samsung N400, I got it at RadioShack(worked there at the time) and since I had a discount I would get a new phone like twice a year. Back in the day Samsung had some really cool flip phones. Kind of wish they made a comeback but I don't see that happening lol. My favorite was the M400. That thing was just perfect.

 

[Jakenbakin]

If you didn't have a Nokia 3310 then you weren't shit.

Mine was a Nokia 3210 :(

 

[Damaniel]

My first one was a generic Nokia phone - something from the 3000 series, I believe. That was way back in 2001 so I don't actually remember which one.

My next phone was the T68i from Sony Ericsson - I even owned the optional camera attachment. After that, I owned Nokia N-Gage QD, but everyone knows what that phone looked like.

 

[thebeeks]

That reminds me of one phone I got later when I made my own money to spend. Did it come in black & chrome with a knight rider type notification light on the outside?

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There was a black/silver model, but I don't remember a notification light. But to be fair I also never got notifications because my phone was a 'dad got my sister and I cheap phones on a family plan, please use this only if you're stranded on the side of the road' sorta thing.

 

[Devilgunman]

Nokia 3210.

This bad boy was with me through high schools and a few yrs in college before I jumped to colored-screen phone.

 

[LordValhalla]

An earlier version of that Nokia you linked in the OP. I remember how excited I was to have a cheap beepy MIDI of the MacGyver theme song as my ringtone.

Edit: this bastard.

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I had the same first phone.

Found a ringtone website clicked "Crosstown Traffic" by Jimi Hendrix. Nothing happened. Until a week later when I got a random text message and some how that downloaded the song? It was super sketch.
And the song sucked. Sounded nothing like Crosstown Traffic.

 

[Jonathan Lanza]

My Razr was 100 times sexier than I and that's saying something.

 

[Lightning Count]

Semi related note but remember the days of paid ringtones, £5 for a shit quality midi version of Axel F...

 

[Mammoth Jones]

 

[m_shortpants]

Motorola V300

 

[Herne]

An Ericsson GA-628, back in the late '90s -

Was an alright phone, lasted me a few years. Friends kept mocking it, though, because it was a bit bulky.

 

[cinch]

I had this monstrosity in the mid 90s, and i was the only one in my group of friends to have a cell phone they thought it was cool

 

[cloudy]

Nokia 5165 from Cingular Wireless. Maybe 2001 or 2002?

 

[Nightfall]

An earlier version of that Nokia you linked in the OP. I remember how excited I was to have a cheap beepy MIDI of the MacGyver theme song as my ringtone.

Edit: this bastard.

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The best bastard.

 

[Perkin_Warbeck]

Mine was kind of a razr knock off from Sanyo called the "Katana", but I actually really liked the look and feel:

 

[Swiggins]

My Razr was 100 times sexier than I and that's saying something.

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100 x 0 is still 0 ;)

I kid, I kid.

The Razr was my first phone as well, neat little piece of tech back in the day. I had it forever too, I didn't get another phone until I got an iPhone 4.

 

[psp12345]

Ericsson 888

 

[ronpontelle]

A Sony J6 PAYG. You could record a few seconds of audio through the microphone and use it as an alert/ringtone.

I dropped it in the toilet when drunk, it lasted a couple more weeks and then I got a Samsung clamshell with a colour screen on a contract and I've been with O2 ever since because their customer service was so good and when I tell them I've been with them since 2003 they jump through hoops!

 

[JHoNNy1OoO]

Nokia 5165 from Cingular Wireless. Maybe 2001 or 2002?

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Same one here!

 

[prophetvx]

Showing my age here...

 

[Ouroboros]

Moto Droid X. I hated it.

 

[Professor RAWR]

I didn't even had my 1st phone until senior year of HS which was a Iphone 5.

 

[SquirrelSaysNuts]

 

[Rutti]

Me and my brothers got one Nokia 5110 to share between us and the first phone that was solely mine was Nokia 3510i

 

[Chikor]

My Razr was 100 times sexier than I and that's saying something.

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That was my first phone as well, and it was all downhill from there.

Remember not having to worry about breaking your phone or running out of battery?