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re: Your first cell phone? When, where, why, and what?
Posted on 2/17/21 at 10:51 am to lsufan9193969700
Posted on 2/17/21 at 10:51 am to lsufan9193969700
My parents got me a prepaid Nokia shortly after Columbine. My mom was terrified every school in the country was gonna have that type of event afterwards. Don't know how it was supposed to help because I never remembered that I had it the majority of the time. I certainly wouldn't be thinking of using my new cell phone while someone was shooting up my school.
Besides that, if a teacher ever saw anyone with a phone, it was immediately confiscated.
Besides that, if a teacher ever saw anyone with a phone, it was immediately confiscated.
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Posted on 2/17/21 at 10:51 am to Gorilla Ball
The first cell phone I bought was a Razor. And I was ballin' baby!!!
Posted on 2/17/21 at 10:51 am to lsufan9193969700
2001...King of Prussia Mall in Pennsylvania.
Moved back to Baton Rouge in 2005. Still have the same #
Moved back to Baton Rouge in 2005. Still have the same #
Posted on 2/17/21 at 10:52 am to lsufan9193969700
Same, Senior Year in High School. You had to work to text.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 10:53 am to im4LSU
still remember when they started to go digital and static was replaced with nothing. a lot of times i'd think the call dropped.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 10:55 am to lsufan9193969700
Bought mine from Sears of all places 1992. It was a Motorola bag phone and CenturyCellunet was the provider. $16/month with no included minutes.
It was so damned cool. My wife got one in 91.
It was so damned cool. My wife got one in 91.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 10:58 am to lsufan9193969700
Posted on 2/17/21 at 11:00 am to lsufan9193969700
My mom used to have one of those 5110, I think my first phone was a 3120, one of the first color screen Nokia's. Got it in the early 2000's, I was in high school.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 11:01 am to REB BEER
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Couldn't afford the Nokia so I had to go with the Ericsson.
That was a beastly phone though. Had a metal band around the outside that took all the beating.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 11:03 am to lsufan9193969700
Some kind of flip phone.
I could call people, text, and play snake.
Would have been around 2001. My parents got it for me because I started driving.
I could call people, text, and play snake.
Would have been around 2001. My parents got it for me because I started driving.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 11:03 am to lsufan9193969700
Had a belt clip and everything.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 11:04 am to lsufan9193969700
Damn now I feel old. I got my first car phone in 1990 when I took a job with the US Government straight out of LSU. It was $0.350 (tree fiddy!) a minute and I had to do an expense report every month and pay them back for any personal calls. I got a handheld Miami Vice style brick phone (the Motorola that was the size of an actual brick) a few years later. Then I was issued a satellite phone that cost $25 just to turn it on and upping to the satellite. It was a $1.00 a minute after that.
Didn't get my first personal phone until much later when they became affordable.
Didn't get my first personal phone until much later when they became affordable.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 11:06 am to lsufan9193969700
Bag phone from Century in Monroe. Probably 1993 or so.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 11:06 am to upgrayedd
Early 90's.... I remember it was about $40 a month for the phone AND $1 a minute
Posted on 2/17/21 at 11:08 am to geauxbrown
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Bag phone
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Probably 1993 or so.
and we figured out where the "dead spots" were fairly quickly.
hold on, i'm passing through pearl river, we're going to get disconnected.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 11:10 am to lsufan9193969700
Something like this. Had to put minutes on it or something every month (and each minute cost $0.10 per). Had this in 9th grade IIRC. So at 14 years old.. just turned 33.
This post was edited on 2/17/21 at 11:11 am
Posted on 2/17/21 at 11:11 am to lsufan9193969700
Definitely a Nokia, I think the 5110 also
Posted on 2/17/21 at 11:12 am to fallguy_1978
Same here.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 11:14 am to lsufan9193969700
c. 2002
I remember being disappointed it did not include 'snake.'
Posted on 2/17/21 at 11:31 am to Speedy G
US Cellular, around 1995... attache bagphone, looked a lot like this.
Transmitter power was somewhere around 2-3 watts, and pretty sure it would stop a .45acp as well (though likely not stop it from working)
Transmitter power was somewhere around 2-3 watts, and pretty sure it would stop a .45acp as well (though likely not stop it from working)
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