When did you fist get a cell phone?

tempo_n_groove

I'm curious as to when you first got a cell phone and how old you were?

I finally decided to get one in 2000 at the ripe age of 25, lol.

This will be interesting to see.

Thanks

jnimhaoileoin

2004 at age 18, the day after I finished my Leaving Cert (final school exam). I think I was the only one in my year without a mobile

dankind

I’ve never fist gotten a cell phone!!!

markymark550

I got my first one for Christmas in 2001. I was 18. My parents decided that the cell phone was cheaper for me calling home from college instead of the university plan and/or calling collect.

Thoughts_Arrive

2002, aged 18.

tbergs

dankind said:

I’ve never fist gotten a cell phone!!!

LOL!

tbergs

I got my first cell phone somewhere around my senior year in college, fall 2011. It was nice not needing phone cards (man did I have a lot of them) or calling collect to talk to family and my long distance gf. I think my first bill was like $35. All the plans were tiered based on minutes. Text messages were pretty much unheard of because they were so expensive and the camera on the phone blew ass. I had that phone for like 5 years. The thing was a brick!

Nextels were the bomb because you didn't need to use minutes. I had one for work.

brianlux

I think it was around 1999.  Prince made me do it.

Pap

2001. I was 13 back then. 17 years later and I still have the same mobile phone (and number).

HesCalledDyer

I managed to hold out until 2006.  I was 29 years old.

The Juggler

I fist got a cell phone in early 2002. Fist one of my friends to get one was in '99ish, I think...

The Juggler

Pap said:

2001. I was 13 back then. 17 years later and I still have the same mobile phone (and number).

You have the same phone today as you had in 2001? Really?

I have the same number too.

I also have the same email address as my fist one back in 1996. 

vogonpoetbythelake

2015 I was 52, been a learning curve ever since, still learning and baffled by all the bells and whistles... the house I was living in had the first party phone line in  town since 1930 something, the longest standing phone line, had to cancel when I moved to the "big city" One of the incentives to get with technology was an emergency situation, my neighbour couldn't work a cell phone to get help...ended tragically, I would have been in the same boat...

tempo_n_groove

vogonpoetbythelake said:

2015 I was 52, been a learning curve ever since, still learning and baffled by all the bells and whistles... the house I was living in had the first party phone line in  town since 1930 something, the longest standing phone line, had to cancel when I moved to the "big city" One of the incentives to get with technology was an emergency situation, my neighbour couldn't work a cell phone to get help...ended tragically, I would have been in the same boat...

Crazy.

My uncle is 79 and he just got one.

KC138045

It was either 1999 or 2000.  i can t remember for sure but I was 19 or 20.  It was this sweet thing here.

MayDay10

Fall of 2001.  I was 23

tempo_n_groove

KC138045 said:

It was either 1999 or 2000.  i can t remember for sure but I was 19 or 20.  It was this sweet thing here.

lol, in 93 I had a job where we had those HUGE motorola cell phones that cost a buck a minute.  I thought it was cool as shit that I could talk while driving.

Annafalk

I have my third cell phone now, the first one I don’t remember when I got, maybe ten -fifteen years ago. 

rgambs

I got my first in 2002 when I was a sophomore I think.
It was a prepaid Nokia and about half the kids in school had one at that point, but literally nobody used them at all.  They were just for emergencies.

tempo_n_groove

rgambs said:

I got my first in 2002 when I was a sophomore I think.
It was a prepaid Nokia and about half the kids in school had one at that point, but literally nobody used them at all.  They were just for emergencies.

So to bring that point to today, I was at the movie theater and I heard some teens talking about how they are "out of data again" and couldn't use their phone while the other one said that he is almost out too.

I have had "unlimited" since I first purchased an Iphone 1 10 years ago and never had a problem so I ask if this is a thing now a days?  Instead of running out of minutes people are running out of data now?

Crazy.

rgambs

tempo_n_groove said:

rgambs said:

I got my first in 2002 when I was a sophomore I think.
It was a prepaid Nokia and about half the kids in school had one at that point, but literally nobody used them at all.  They were just for emergencies.

So to bring that point to today, I was at the movie theater and I heard some teens talking about how they are "out of data again" and couldn't use their phone while the other one said that he is almost out too.

I have had "unlimited" since I first purchased an Iphone 1 10 years ago and never had a problem so I ask if this is a thing now a days?  Instead of running out of minutes people are running out of data now?

Crazy.

We run out of data a week into our cycle because my son watches kid vids on YouTube and it's our only internet connection.
Even unlimited data only gives you a certain amount at 4G speeds, after that streaming becomes impossible and other tasks get tedious.