Your first Cell phone?

[Shaissa]

So I think almost everyone around here now days have a cell phone, kids, parents, everyone seems to carry some cell phone device.

What was your first cell phone?

Do you remember your plan? (if it had a plan)

Did it have any "features" or was it just a cell phone? Now days smart phones seem to do everything, but back in the day phones didn't have it all...



For me... My first cell phone was... the Indestructible Nextels... before Sprint bought them, way back in the day... and Yes it had the annoying "direct connect" that use to be so cool...

Here is a photo of it... sorta

Only it was all black...

and I don't remember it even having the little screen on the front of it (where it is closed...)

It literally was you had to flip it open to see who was calling... I could text.. but I had to hit the numbers... ahh good times...


My plan was $50 for... 200 minutes... and unlimited Nights starting at 9... didn't even have weekends yet... Though that came later, and starting at 7 was an additional $5 later also (or something like that.)

It did come with "direct connect" which I thought was cool... for about 3 months.. then everyone was using it, and interrupting my conversations... it got very annoying... yet I kept it and Nextel for a very long time.. then Sprint bought them... but that is a different story..

So what was your first cell phone?

 

[The Welsh Paddy]

Let's see... I had my first mobile phone back when I was eleven... Fourteen years ago, roughly.

I had that gruesome looking thing. I could text and make phone calls. I don't recall there ever being such thing as a price plan back then. You just top up your phone via a top-up voucher that you can purchase from most corner shops, or even at ATM machines. Then, it cost me... 10 pence per text and about 30 pence per minute when calling a landline or another BT mobile. If I was to text to friends and family over in Ireland, it would cost 20 pence per text.

Features... A bunch of useless stuff, really. It had an alarm clock, which I used often. And I think it had a calendar/diary, and a feature that allowed you to see what time it was in other countries. Probably a few other things as well, but I don't really remember.

It was a really shit phone and I don't miss it in the least.

My second mobile phone, on the other hand... Was a Nokia 3310 and I remember being absolutely hooked on that thing. It introduced me to the world of mobile gaming. It had Snake II! Back then, you were really uncool if your phone didn't have Snake II on it. And there was also, if I remember correctly, a neat feature where you could key in your own midi tunes to use as ringtones. I used to key in some of my favourite Final Fantasy songs and use them as ringtones. I think I was also able to type in my own welcome message for whenever I switch the phone on. I used to think it was all cool and high tech to have my phone display a message saying 'Hello, Patrick.' whenever I switched the thing on. I was somewhat of a sad individual back then, I reckon.

 

[Linnaete]

^ Also a Nokia 3310.

It was originally my dad's, but round about nine years ago it was handed down to me when I started to take the bus home from school. Mother made it this requirement that I had to have one in case of an emergency, and given how clumsy I was/am, an indestructible phone was what I needed.

No, seriously. This thing is a brick. It's a tank. You can pretty much bring this with you to the frontlines, and this thing will be guaranteed to outlive you. It's a brutal reminder of how fragile the current smartphone builds tend to be, and how pathetic their battery levels are. These old-school phones could last up to two weeks, while a single drop on the concrete would be completely inconsequential.

Android? Pfft. Who needs that when you had Snake on this? Everyone at school who first picked up their first mobile phones pretty much had Nokias and played Snake.

Compared to this:

Current one is also a Nokia. Not quite a brick, nor will its battery ever last very long, but it's good enough for me:

 

[Lirael]

Let's see... I had my first mobile phone back when I was eleven... Fourteen years ago, roughly.

I had that gruesome looking thing. I could text and make phone calls. I don't recall there ever being such thing as a price plan back then. You just top up your phone via a top-up voucher that you can purchase from most corner shops, or even at ATM machines. Then, it cost me... 10 pence per text and about 30 pence per minute when calling a landline or another BT mobile. If I was to text to friends and family over in Ireland, it would cost 20 pence per text.

Features... A bunch of useless stuff, really. It had an alarm clock, which I used often. And I think it had a calendar/diary, and a feature that allowed you to see what time it was in other countries. Probably a few other things as well, but I don't really remember.

It was a really shit phone and I don't miss it in the least.

My second mobile phone, on the other hand... Was a Nokia 3310 and I remember being absolutely hooked on that thing. It introduced me to the world of mobile gaming. It had Snake II! Back then, you were really uncool if your phone didn't have Snake II on it. And there was also, if I remember correctly, a neat feature where you could key in your own midi tunes to use as ringtones. I used to key in some of my favourite Final Fantasy songs and use them as ringtones. I think I was also able to type in my own welcome message for whenever I switch the phone on. I used to think it was all cool and high tech to have my phone display a message saying 'Hello, Patrick.' whenever I switched the thing on. I was somewhat of a sad individual back then, I reckon.

I do believe these were my first two phones! If your first phone was the same as mine...it only had four in a row. I was not pleased! I had seen a Nokia with Snake II and longed for this game! My first phone went missing 1-2 years after I had it (I still wonder whether it was stolen), at which point I received a Nokia 3310. This one had Snake II! I remember buying a cover with Homer Simpson on! I was rather upset to find that the cover of Lisa was designed for a smaller phone.

 

[Will Graham]

My first phone was an old phillips one, no idea what model it was. Far better than a nokia. People say how indestructible their phones are, but they have nothing on mine. It was dropped in a field and bailed into silage for six months before being found in a cow's feeding trough 6 months later. Still works.

 

[Tyler Breeze]

This wasn't the exact model, (or brand, even) but it's pretty much what my first phone was. It was a much cheaper version of this phone. It pretty much collected dust on the window in my room, because nothing on it was unlimited like it is now, so my parents were like "ONLY FOR EMERGENCIES". I was all like "Well goddamn. Fine then." This one didn't last long. Eventually I got another. Then another. Then another.​

 

[The Welsh Paddy]

If your first phone was the same as mine...it only had four in a row. I was not pleased!

Mine didn't have any games at all.

 

[Donald Trump]

My first phone was a Nokia 3310 which I had about 12 years ago. My parents purchased it for me because I was catching the bus to school and my school was over an hour away.
mhm aha.
I didn't use it often. I much prefer my Samsung Galaxy.

 

[Jack's Smirking Revenge]

my first was a bosch phone that my auntie gave me. bosch as in the company that make washing machines. i didn't even know they made mobiles, and i've still never seen another one to this day. it didn't even have a clock on it.

after that i got a 3310, like a lot of people. it was an absolute beast and took a hammering, as any 13 year old's phone would. i remember my mate used to have a little black book of songs that you could put in to those sort of phones, and used to charge people about 30p to do them. he made a decent amount of money out of it too.

 

[Artemisia]

Nokia 3210 (almost identical to the 3310, just a bit larger and it had Snake 1, not Snake 2). My parents refused to buy me a cellphone so I bought it off my friend when she upgraded to a 3310. At one stage after an unfortunate screen-shattering accident I had to use a Nokia 5510, which I was very embarrassed about as it was a brick with a lovely aerial and no vibration on silent. My friends used this against me and hid it away one day at school, meaning I had to go around asking people if they'd seen my phone, and having to tell them what phone it was when they asked for a description, ensuring much ridicule! I later found the phone hidden in a friend's bag. As the phone did not vibrate on silent, I was not able to locate it by its vibration as we did for the other phones >_

 

[Big Casino]

Some piece of shit. The first decent phone i had which i remember was a nokia 3310. They were invincible.

 

[Sepalcure]

It was a trusty old pink Sanyo Katana. It kind of looked like a Razr but it wasn't as wide width wise. There was no internet access just straight texting and a shitty camera but I loved it all the same.

 

[Bambi]

something with an extendable arial... cant remember what it was. I also had the above pictured Philips monstrosity. you could only text in caps I think hahaha, I remember having one of these ericssons where you could change the face. I had the coca cola one, I remember collecting the tokens hahahah

 

[rowe]

The beast you see below was my first phone. Or maybe it was a model like it. They all looked the same to me.

 

[Tucker]

Up until 2 weeks ago I had the LG rumor touch, one of those slidees that teenagers always had until smartphones became more popular. It was a handy phone for texting, but it started to malfunction a lot which is why I got what is now my current phone, the samsung galaxy s3 with which I am currently madly in love.

 

[Steve-O]

Sendo S330

was a great phone... of of the first color screen phones to come out over here

my current phone is a Galaxy Note