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re: How old were you when you got your first cell phone?
Posted on 9/16/17 at 2:21 pm to CatsGoneWild
Posted on 9/16/17 at 2:21 pm to CatsGoneWild
Freshman in college (2000). Had a pager up to that point. Paid for both with a skating rink job and a daycare job.
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Posted on 9/16/17 at 2:30 pm to CatsGoneWild
I was 17 and it was 1991. I worked nights bagging groceries and saved up to buy it. It was an Alpine car mounted cell phone with a plan through Cellular South. I think it was roughly $39.99 a month and $1.99 a minute. It was to damn expensive to use very often but I sure thought it looked cool mounted between the seats on my 1988 Mazda B2000 pick up, and of course that antenna stuck on the back glass let everyone know I had a cellphone! LOL!
Posted on 9/16/17 at 2:40 pm to CatsGoneWild
22 or 23 I think. It was a StarTac.
Posted on 9/16/17 at 3:17 pm to CatsGoneWild
You had a credit card at age 18? I think that's more shocking than having a cell phone at a much earlier age.
Posted on 9/16/17 at 3:31 pm to CatsGoneWild
18 when I went to college.
Posted on 9/16/17 at 4:05 pm to CatsGoneWild
17, 2007
Posted on 9/16/17 at 4:07 pm to CatsGoneWild
38
Posted on 9/16/17 at 4:41 pm to CatsGoneWild
15-16. So 1998-99ish.
Posted on 9/16/17 at 5:06 pm to notiger1997
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When I was 27 or so and needed one for work. It was of course an older flip phone. Stayed with the old style phone a long as time even after the I-Phones and similar ones came out. I didn't think I needed a "fancy" phone.
I couldn't imagine living without a good phone these days.
Regarding just keeping the flip phone, I did the same thing.
I kept telling people my phone does what I need it to do. I don't give a shite about the IPhone 3 and that nonsense.
I had to have been like 26 saying that. Around 2008 or so.
Work finally made me get one and the paid for it.
Was amazed after 2 days using it lmao
Posted on 9/16/17 at 5:11 pm to CatsGoneWild
Car phone , sophomore in HS
Cell phone, junior in HS
Cell phone, junior in HS
Posted on 9/16/17 at 5:14 pm to CatsGoneWild
I got a Motorola analog bag phone when I was 17 back in '93. I worked for my uncle installing them in cars. Back then you had to wire an antenna on the vehicle and run it to the phone. It was Southwestern Bell back then. You didn't talk long either. It was 50 cents per minute peak time and like 10 cents per minute nights and weekends. I was the only kid in my school with a car phone.
This post was edited on 9/16/17 at 5:22 pm
Posted on 9/16/17 at 5:21 pm to CatsGoneWild
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Posted on 9/16/17 at 5:27 pm to CatsGoneWild
When I purchased my first one 1997 or so
Posted on 9/16/17 at 5:28 pm to CatsGoneWild
21 in 2000. Remember suncom? I didn't want one but became cheaper than a land line with free long distance. Had to call my momma everyday in college
Posted on 9/16/17 at 5:32 pm to CatsGoneWild
29 in 1995
Posted on 9/16/17 at 5:36 pm to CatsGoneWild
Got my first one in '99 so about 47. Have only had two phones, both flips. 
Posted on 9/16/17 at 5:42 pm to CatsGoneWild
38. Had just graduated nursing school.
Posted on 9/16/17 at 7:33 pm to offshoretrash
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I was in my mid 20s around 1995.
Yep.
I was a minute-counting fool. So expensive.
Posted on 9/16/17 at 7:40 pm to CatsGoneWild
Motorola Bag Phone.
External antenna for it on my car.
Yep. I was styling, Though tbh, it was like carrying a man bag.
External antenna for it on my car.
Yep. I was styling, Though tbh, it was like carrying a man bag.
This post was edited on 9/16/17 at 7:50 pm
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