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What Was Your First Cell Phone? πŸ™ŒπŸ“±

dev.to staff on June 07, 2023

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Ervin Szilagyi

INokia 3410

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Michalis Papamichael

Do you still use it? πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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Ervin Szilagyi

No, but I still have it somewhere in a drawerπŸ˜‚

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Ha__sh

Legendary Nokia

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Vincent A. Cicirello • Edited

I had a Motorola bag phone sometime around 1994 or 1995. Sorry I don't have any photos and I don't remember the specific model. Google "bag phone" to see what these looked like.

Here's a wikipedia page about them.

The Motorola bag phone is the colloquial name for a line of personal transportable cellular telephones manufactured by Motorola, inc. from 1988 to 2000.

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Valeria

I don’t remember the model, it was an old flip Motorola with an antenna 🀩

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Vicente G. Reyes

I remember holding one of these when I was small πŸ˜„

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GreggHume

damnnnn this thing is for reals. I remember holding one as a kid and even back then thinking the thing was big. Im sure there are bigger gray ones.

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Mihnea Simian

AEG HT911 (1997)

It used the full-size gsm card (the one as large as a credit card). Got it second-hand in ~2003, brought from Spain; the battery was on its end of life.. and it was locked-in with Orange service provider (that's not legal anymore in EU).
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Pantelis Theodosiou

Nokia 7610. Still works like a charm.
I still remember the day that my brother asked me if I wanted a mobile phone. In other words I bought it from him so we could then buy a new one for himself πŸ˜‚. Best choice ever. Nokia never disappointed me πŸ’ͺ

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GreggHume

Motorola M3888 - year 2000 - I was 13
All my friends used to tease me at school because they had nokias and I had this brick.

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Troy Harris

Samsung Galaxy S Player 5.0
That phone was excellent at the time. Managed to get into custom ROM's and flash from Gingerbread, all the way up to Android Kitkat 4.4. I loved every minute using it to test different kernels and ROM's...

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RocketeerFly

Nokia 7070 Prism

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Trent Brew

pretty :o

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Edenn Touitou

I got a HTC chacha when I was 14. It was a cheap phone, with a physical keyboard like a blackberry and a touch screen. At the time I wasn't convince by the full touch screen, I wanted some "mechanical" feel for the keyboard, to be sure what letter I was pressing.

It was a cool phone, only for the battery who was heating so much it melted some usb cables.

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Ben Halpern

I don’t remember but it sucked

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Erin Bensinger

A plain black flip phone, no frills.

LG Envoy II, no camera. The year was 2007 and I was 13 years old.

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Jessica Alves

Nokia 5125

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GreggHume

Looks like my Motorola i posted. I definitely know someone who has had this phone.

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RPG_ash • Edited

Mine was a One2One m301 (Motorola) in 1993. Unfortunately does not work any more.

mobilephonehistory.co.uk/motorola/...

m301 box
m301 Box

m301 phone
m301

m301 with smallest battery attached next to a Galaxy S8
m301 with smallest battery attached next to a Galaxy S8

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GreggHume

phew 1993!! Thats crazy. I was 5 years old.

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Ayu Adiati

Panasonic GD90 πŸ₯°

Panasonic cell phone GD90

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Bentil Shadrack

My first cell phone was Nokia 3310

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Jon Randy πŸŽ–οΈ

Nokia 5110
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Md.Rafiuzzaman Khan πŸ‡§πŸ‡©

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with a large 64mb SD card

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GreggHume

OO i got a second hand one from one of my parents or friend. This was a cool phone but the knob ended up playing up.

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Sera

Nokia 1100
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ShrimpandGits

the one and only lg rumor...with 100 texts a month...
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Trent Brew

3.5 inches was honestly the perfect size... I miss this little phone

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Shubhendra Singh Chauhan

I really like that this mobile came with Android one

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ferceg

Company Nokia 5110 ~24 years ago. The phone is god-knows-where but I still have the same phone number :)

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Vicente G. Reyes

I had an Ericson phone back in (around) 1998 or 1999

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Calin Baenen

I don't quite remember the make/model, but I remember that it was a T-Mobile Android phone, it has been around since 2015-2016, and it is now long gone.

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Medea

iPhone SE lmao, i still use it

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Hubert Daniell

Had an old Nokia brick but it had blank face plate inserts so you could design your own face plate front and back. After that I got a Razr.

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Smitter

Mine was a siemens phone

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Vamsi Krishna

Sigmatel

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Omar Martian

Q Mubile