Do you remember your 1st cell phone?

[Head416]

At least two of mine ended up in toilets.

[Aggie93]

Motorola flip phone, the grey one. I got it in June 1994. My future wife was going to be driving by herself from Dallas to Iowa for the wedding. I was going up a few days later. We wanted her to have a phone in case something happened. I remember one of my buddies playing with it and calling his home to leave a message to himself. I think that 20 second call cost me over $4.00.

I think I'm on my fourth or fifth phone, one every 4-5 years.

[rusnak]

Originally Posted by Tobra

Remember it, I still have it in a drawer at the house. Was through Sprint, flip phone, maybe a Motorola, would have to look. I am on my 4th phone since 1996

I went through 4 phones in 2008 alone. I would have absolutely no idea how many phones I went through since my first one since around 1998 or so.

[Z-man]

Originally Posted by red-beard

Motorola Star-Tac

This.

[Hugh R]

Motorola bag phone about 1990 or so then a Star-Tac, it's was really small. $1/minute sold the boss that as a consultant with a big client an hours drive away, I could charge drive time and make marketing calls at the same time. Still have the same number, when I give the number out many people are amazed because the last four digits are 3000.

[Jim Richards]

I don't recall the brand but it was a corded car phone running on the old analog (AMPS) cellular network.

[scottmandue]

Ericson,

Pretty good basic phone actually... kind of a sucky network a the time.

It was a nice small phone...

My previous phone was an even smaller Nokia that I loved... then I got pulled into the smart phone vortex.

Anyone else notice that cell phones started out gigantic... got smaller... then smaller... now they are getting bigger?

[red-beard]

I remember with the old analog cell networks being able to listen in with one of my amateur radios. You had to clip a wire to tune past the ham bands.

[widgeon13]

It was a brick!

[scottbombedout]

Originally Posted by VincentVega

First phone was one of this in the mid 90's, hand me down from my folks.

This was my first phone too. Thought I was the dogs bollocks having it. I'll never forget going into a restaurant with it and the waiter saying 'here is a chair for your phone Sir.' That thing was mahoosive.

[Schumi]

My parents had a Star-Tac while I was in middle school. I remember how they gave it to me whenever I went out and didn't know what time I'd be done with my game/etc so I could call to get picked up. I wasn't allowed to have it at school.

In high school I got a Nokia 5110. Everyone had one. Everyone got in trouble for playing the snake game in the back of class. Later I bought a first generation Motorola RAZR as a present to myself. I hung onto that phone for something like 6 years, since I paid for it.

I now have an iPhone 3 that I have had since it came out. Still going strong.

It is tempting to replace it with a Nexus phone.

[johnco]

I still have it and the bag phone I had at the same time. I still have a bunch of my old phones including a star tac

[Radioactive]

Apparently my 1st and 2nd phone are so old I can't even find an image of them,

NEC 5000 transportable / multi vehicle holders
Mistsubishi 800 transportable /multi vehicle holders

[jhynesrockmtn]

I went to work for McCaw Cellular (Cellular One) in 1990, first portable phone was the Motorola Half Brick we called it. I bit slimmer than the original. I had every phone you can imagine over the years, both analog and digital as technology progressed until I left and started paying for them.

[speeder]

My first cell phone was in the early '90s, Nokia, I think. My GF had one in her car before that, but it was hard-wired to the car.

One of my dad's buddies had a car phone way back in the '60s and '70s, I think it was like a ship-to-shore phone.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by NotaBRG

It looked something like this:

I think mine was the same. I used Nokia phones for years (usually the free ones), avoiding the phones with add-on stuff. The reception and sound were always good. There was one year or so when I worked for sprint that I had a sprint phone. There was one year where work provided a motorola flip phone with the 2 way radio crap. That was horrible! Recently, I'm exclusively using HTC phones.

[porsche4life]

Yup.... Even still have the damn thing!

As you can tell I had a few nokias... First one is far left, a 3560 got it when I was about to turn 14 and get my motorcycle license ( paid for the phone and bike myself ), then less than a year later Dobson talked us into going to GSM, so I got a 6010. I carried it for about a year before someone handed me down a 6220, which I loved for its small size, but I found the 6280 on eBay for cheap and snagged it a few months later. I loved the Pebl and carried it for probably close to a year before snagging the Pearl and making the jump to smartphones. I carried it until I got my first iPhone in '08... On my 3rd one of them... Yes I have ADD with phones as much as I do with other gadgets, its the cost of being cool.

[aigel]

Originally Posted by 968rz

I even still have this bad boy; sometimes I think it would be fun to put my current phones guts in it and watch peoples faces.

Pretty sure I have had that one too. It was in 98 - definitely was an old model already then - but cheap - o a cingular plan IIRC. Still have a flip to this day, after a few years with a BB.

Technology sure flies ...

G

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by widgeon13

It was a brick!

Mine was like a brick too. I had to carry it as part of a computer tech support job I had. If I carried it today the police would charge me with carrying an offensive weapon

[look 171]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

That was my first phone.

it was my first too. Reliable and drop proof. It must have dropped off an 8 foot ladder more then a few times. Simple and it worked