What was yall's first cellphone?

[Max|Payne]

Yesterday a friend and I were talking about cellphones and eventually we started talking about our first phones.

My first phone was a Nokia 3310, gifted by my parents on my 16th birthday.

Not bad at all for my first phone. Played Snake for hours on that beast.

 

[Sunster]

some Verizon flip phone in 2005. I was in I think 4th grade. The next school year is when all the cool kids got Motorola Razrs

 

[entremet]

some Verizon flip phone in 2005. I was in I think 4th grade

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Damn. Parents of mine would never haha. I had to pay for my own.

 

[shoptroll]

MotoRazr flip phone

EDIT: Wait no... There was a Nokia thing before that one like what the OP lists. Back in the days before Cingular was bought.

 

[Damaniel]

The Sony Ericsson T68i.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_T68

I even bought the camera add on for it.

 

[Darth Karja]

My first phone was a Nokia 3310

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I had the same one

 

[DBT85]

Like many my age, the 3210.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

Probably the same OP.

 

[TheDutchSlayer]

Like many my age, the 3210.

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Indeed 3210

 

[Sunster]

Damn. Parents of mine would never haha. I had to pay for my own.

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They gave me one after I was left alone in the school parking lot for several hours one night after a school dance lol

 

[Ravelle]

Don't know the exact model but it was soms silver flip phone.

Second was a Sony Ericsson phone, they made some slicky designed phones and later got a LG Arena which had a touch screen and Froze every so often

I bought my first phone during high school, around intership

 

[KOfLegend]

A blackberry that my parents bought for me circa 2013. I hated it.

 

[Max|Payne]

They gave me one after I was left alone in the school parking lot for several hours one night after a school dance lol

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Haha, holy shit.

Hey, at least you got a freaking phone out of that ordeal.

 

[mddover]

Basically the same as the OP. I don't know if it was *exactly* the same, but it was a very similar looking Nokia. This would have been around 2000-2001.

 

[Oghuz]

Sony Ericsson flip phone. I forgot the model name..

 

[Sunster]

Haha, holy shit.

Hey, at least you got a freaking phone out of that ordeal.

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yeah lol none of my friends had phones yet so i just used the camera and set different ringtones again and again.

 

[bionic77]

Some plastic Nokia. Don't remember the model number. They all kind of looked like the one in the OP at that time.

 

[N64Controller]

Sony Ericsson W580i

I absolutely hated it and barely used it

 

[Jill Sandwich]

 

[mute]

Startac

 

[GMM]

LG U8110

 

[Tremorah]

Something like this Motorola right here, dont know if it was this actual model tho i think it only had two rows for text and could only send or receive text messages

 

[Ramathevoice]

Also on team 3310 here, when I was 13 or so.

 

[SnoopZ]

Philips C12 was my first Mobile Phone.

 

[kyle mechlachlan]

I also had a Nokia but mine was a bit older. Woulda been around 2002ish probably.

 

[Real]

Snoop Dogg co-branded cell phone. Not joking.

 

[Hilarious_Bearious]

Where my brick phone homies at?

 

[Bill Gaitas]

This badboy right here:

The Nokia 3200. The box came with a special cutting tool where you could create your own cover, it was neat.

 

[Red Light Camera]

It was either a Nokia 5110 or 6110.

 

[Max|Payne]

This badboy right here:

The Nokia 3200. The box came with a special cutting tool where you could create your own cover, it was neat.

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Don't even remember those but then again Nokia used to release at least 10 new models every hour.

What was your provider at the time? TMN, Optimus or Telecel? Mine was Optimus.

 

[Bill Gaitas]

Don't even remember those but then again Nokia used to release at least 10 new models every hour.

What was your provider at the time? TMN, Optimus or Telecel? Mine was Optimus.

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I was the only kid in class with Optimus 😂 yeah not a lot of people texted me.

 

[SuperHans]

Grey Nokia 3210. Cost me 60 euro (punts?) new on pay as you go. Texts were 10c each unless you changed your SMS message center number to some other countries , which gave you free texts until about a month later when you'd end up in negative balance. I remember going to the US around 2001 and no one my age has a phone. Everyone in Ireland had one since they were so cheap. US telecoms companies were (and still are) screwing people with over priced phones and contracts.

 

[Rune Walsh]

Ye old Sanyo SCP-5300

 

[Temtastic Muns]

Samsung Gravity 3, back in 2010. Man, I loved that QWERTY keyboard.

 

[ILPUMAGUERRIERO]

Siemens C35

 

[hydro94530]

 

[Lost Lemurian]

Some kind of pay-as-you-go flip phone, I don't remember the brand, TBH. It was 2002, and I was a freshman in highschool.

 

[skeezx]

one of those earlier nokia models

i had dinosaur phones before that but they were solely for keeping in touch with my parents. i was "allowed" to talk to friends on it but they were so used to calling me on my land line, i guess. and i didn't know how to text (i don't know if the plan even included texting, or if you even could text on them)

 

[Saganator]

Little Samsung SGH-something flip phone, can't remember the model number, there was a few iterations of the model. Nifty phone, kinda miss the form factor. I still have it somewhere.

 

[Professor Fate]

Got this LG flip phone in 9th grade around 2005, and I was probably one of the last of my friends to get a cell phone. Played a lot of Doom RPG on this (miss that game).

Followed it up with this beast, the EnV 2, a couple years later. I never understood how to use T9 to type, so the full keyboard was amazing.

 

[Tbm24]

I didn't get a cellphone until Highschool at which point for me it was the Razer and then I went to DR and came back with a Sony Ericsson w800. God I miss that phone.

 

[NekoFever]

Panasonic G520, around 1999.

 

[Graefellsom]

Nokia 3310!
Loved that phone

 

[XL Hoodie]

Samsung SPH-N200

 

[Jmdajr]

A Sanyo phone in 2002. Wasn't even a flip. I think the screen was color.

 

[NESpowerhouse]

First cellphone was a highschool graduation gift in 2015. It was a Samsung Galaxy Core Prime

 

[Helix]

I think it was a Samsung Slider Phone with like a 0.2MP camera.

First in the family to have a camera phone lol

 

[Max|Payne]

Does anyone remember the Alcatel One touch Easy?

Alcatel One Touch Easy

Alcatel One Touch Easy mobile phone with 500 mAh battery

mobile.softpedia.com

You could take out the included battery and use AAA batteries instead. Man, I kinda miss this era of cellphone tech, when all phones didn't look so similar to each other.

 

[Mr. Bad Example]

One of these ancient beasts--a Qualcomm QCP-860. Smart phones were eight years off at this point still.

 

[Martinski]

Nokia 3210

Nokia 3210 - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org