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What was the first mobile phone you had and how old were you?

Motorola Microtac - use as a paperweight if needed!!!
I was about 23. It hailed the introduction of the "flipphone".

Originally advertised as "indestructible" - Kid plays with his father's phone and watches in horror as it bounces down the stairs. No need to worry - it's a Motorola MicroTac; can take all the hard knocks.

And it did - the number of times I dropped this brick and it kept going like the Duracell Bunny was amazing. :O
 

this was mine!

It was branded Austin Rover and was available through their accessories catalogue! I was 18 running a disco (around 1989) - I remember leaning out of my mates bedroom window upstairs (reception wasn't great back then) and dropping it on the floor 1 storey down - only broke the battery clip!!!

Did that now and the modern phone would disintegrate!!!

Paul
 
My first was quite sleek compared to those behemoths - the Moto StarTAC.

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Mind you, I was 30 when I got it.
 
It was the Motorola "flip" phone, the first one on orange. Orange had the Nokia 2110 and this Motorola. Can't remember the model. Cost a fortune. Later swapped for the Nokia, or the other way around, can't remember. It was about 18 years ago.
 
Mine was the Nokia 101, and i still have it (not in use obviously!!), although it's probably more use as a door stop, and i believe it was 1993 (trying to remember which car i had it in...)
 
The first one I owned was a Motorola Flair, from when GSM was launched in about 1996:confused: The earliest ones I used were things like the Motorola 4500x, the extended life battery for that was basically a car battery in a box! There was a phone in a briefcase, complete with extending car type aerial, a proper push button dial pad and a full sized handset but I have no idea what make it was. Yes, I am that old :eek:
 

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i was 17 or so... was either a nokia or motorola from radioshack. was a preload phone. had a flip that covered the keyboard but wasnt functional for anything else. i think it lasted all of 4 or 6 months
 
About 12 and it was the M520:
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Absolute piece of crap, the wiring in the sliding mechanism wasn't strong enough and I kept getting white screens.

Then I got my dad's old phone, the a900:
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Now, quite a few months later, I will be getting my EVO on Friday as my 14th birthday present:
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First cell phone I owned was a boost mobile i-215. The oldest crappiest phone I ever had. I was only 16, I think. But wow, how evolved that phones have came since then.
 
The first true mobile phone I guess would be the Moto StarTac in 1996. But before that I did have a car mounted unit that was a moto. Just can not remember what it was. And that would have gone back to around 1993. Sold that car in 1994 and did not have a phone again until the StarTac. It was such a cool phone to have being a flip phone then. I would have been 23 with the first phone.
 
tsanuri said:
The first true mobile phone I guess would be the Moto StarTac in 1996. But before that I did have a car mounted unit that was a moto. Just can not remember what it was. And that would have gone back to around 1993. Sold that car in 1994 and did not have a phone again until the StarTac. It was such a cool phone to have being a flip phone then. I would have been 23 with the first phone.
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My first phone was StarTac also. I was 14 tho I think.
 
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