general When did you get your first phone?

[Trot Shuffle 3,599]

I was 17 when I was allowed to get my first phone, a Motorola. In uhh... 2019 

Cuz I graduated high school.

What about you?

[Iforgotmybrain 3,516]

Around 2014 I think, for Christmas . It was an LG G3 which had horrible battery life, but that was kind of offset by it having a removable battery.

[SharpWit 2,472]

I think it was 2010, I would have been 13 in the 7th grade. Most of the kids I knew had already had theirs for 2 years, and a handful had the original iPhone. I was going back and forth between 4 different households on the weekends so it was good for coordination.

My Dad's second wife bought it for me off of Ebay, and my Mom bought the simcard under AT&T even though it was a Verizon model. I think I had 300 minutes of talk time and unlimited texting, but never got close to using them all up. I don't thunk it had any games on it? But I abused the notes app then as I do now, would look at the world clock, and I could take poor quality pictures and 15 second video's. I would make what would barely qualify as Lego stop motion by pausing and unpacking the camera, but it recorded the clicking sound!  I only had so much space and had no idea how to load or upload anything so I'd carefully decide which ones I preferred to keep.

I had to replace that phone after we capsized a rowboat. Felt quite sad. My next phone didn't have a camera, and i was awful at emptying my pockets, so the first of the next 3 went through the washing machine.

These  images are from a different one on Ebay. I think this is what I had only in blue.

[ZiggWheelsManning 7,371]

Don't remember the model, but it was August 2006, my 4th semester in community college  

Edited July 6, 2023 by ZiggWheelsManning

[SparklingSwirls 21,261]

Ehh… I got an iPod Touch before I got a phone. That was in 2012/2013 I think? And I got a phone a year or two after.

[Twitchy-Tremor 281]

I don’t know exactly but it was sometime in high school it was a flip phone that was apparently really cool at the time…man I feel old! 

[Envy 6,000]

I believe it was 2003 or 2004. 

It was the Samsung x426 flip phone:

[ComanderZhabikKlavik 935]

My first phone appeared when I was in first grade. It was Nokia.

[Samurai Equine 45,936]

Landlines have always been a thing in my life, but I am guessing you mean cellphones/smart phones. My first cell phones happened in the late 90's/early 2000's. They looked like this:

Spoiler

The fathers of modern cell phones. Only capable of traditional calls and text messages, back when that meant ONLY text. A few very basic games like Snake. No internet, and no smart features.

Then there was a big time gap where I didn't use cell phones at all. Wasn't until college when I began to need one, and even then I didn't get the kind of phone people traditionally use now.

It wasn't really until the 2010's that I really began to use a smart phone like everyone else. By that point, it was getting impossible to not have one. 

[Twitchy-Tremor 281]

13 hours ago, ComanderZhabikKlavik said:

My first phone appeared when I was in first grade. It was Nokia.

Wow I never even saw a kid with a phone untill 5th grade and it was just one! 

[Winter Storm 207]

I didn't get a cell phone till freshman year in high school, it was a flip phone as they all were back then. So primitive in comparison to current smart phones. I'm amazed students these days learn anything when they can just use their phones.

[Gun Metal Zebra 1,818]

I got my first cell phone sometime in 2006, if I recall correctly. It was a flip phone of some sort.

[Clawdeen 12,110]

I was in middle school. Don’t remember what kind it was though.

[Rock-O-Jello 136]

I was in fifth grade. It was a Nokia phone (like this)

[EpicEnergy 22,089]

I was 18 when I got mine, didn't really need one until then anyways.

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My first phone was a flip phone during my freshman year of high school.

[Pony Flutters 530]

I had some type of phone with a keypad back in late 2008. The first time I had an iPhone was Christmas 2010.