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By *inaTitz OP   TV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

When did everyone get their first mobile phone?

I never had a mobile until I was 25 in 2001. Prior to that, when I was at Uni if anyone wanted me they had to send a letter, or if they were in a rush, put a 1st class stamp on it.

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

About 1998/1999 I think. On a One to Nothing pay as you go tariff.

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

Bloody hell I cannot remember.....

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By *razilnutsMan
over a year ago

York

A Motorola DPC950 back in 1995!! Bloody thing weighed a ton!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

2001, I was 11 and it was a Mars Trium....does anyone remember them?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sony was called the Mars bar phone way back then

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By *ezebelWoman
over a year ago

North of The Wall - youll need your vest

1996. Think it was a Nokia and Ive had the same number ever since

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By *entaur_UKMan
over a year ago

Cannock

Got my first mobile in 1999 i think. It was one of those vodafone pay as you go things and got it from argos, lol.

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By *oudnproudWoman
over a year ago

penrith

I was 14 so 17 years ago.... it was a blue brick with an areial but you could play snake on it.... no camera nothing!!!

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville


"Got my first mobile in 1999 i think. It was one of those vodafone pay as you go things and got it from argos, lol."
Oh now that rings a bell, mine was from Argos.

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By *eryBigGirlWoman
over a year ago

East Yorkshire

I got mine in 1996 and I think it was a Motorola 8200. Had started travelling a distance to work and the ex figured a phone was cheaper than a more reliable car!!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oooh. I had my first mobile in the first year of secondary school. So, i think 2001 (apologies to those who's age has been emphasised). It was a Nokia 3650 - bloody brick of a phone lol

...and i still have the same number from back then and the phone in pristine condition.

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By *cottishrichMan
over a year ago

Here and there

'98 or '99 on bt cellnet, can't remember the model of phone. Then got a 3310 when I went to uni in 2000.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What happened to sending smoke signals as a form of communication

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

I worked in a mobile phone shop.... And even I held out, I got a pager instead!

Finally gave in when the shop gave me a freebie.... Motorola startac! I was cool

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Motorola 8100 with a little stubby aerial. 1998, One 2 One and still have the same number

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By *illwill69uMan
over a year ago

moston

I had a motorola 4500 transportable for work in summer 89...

First proper mobile was in about 96 when I got a nokia banana phone.

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By *ogistical NightmaresCouple
over a year ago

Manchester Area

(M) first mobile back in 97, was a Hagenuk "global handy" on Cellnet

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

First mobile i had was a dangly thing over my cot with coloured ducks on, i think.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was 34

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

We had a Motorola yuppie brick phone back in the day, whatever that was?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

1996 as i started work after leaving college.

one2one

ericsson GA628

even had a belt clip holder, like a proper yuppie

cracked the screen when i fell against a gambling machine in a pub whilst a litte tipsy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

1998 a massive Motorola on Vodafone.

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By *oulou45Woman
over a year ago

Bucks

I got two for xmas 98. One wasva Siemens and I sold it. For some reason I kept the Motorola which was like a brick. It worked great until I chewed yhr aerial one time to many that it snapped.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Motorola 3210

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When did everyone get their first mobile phone?

I never had a mobile until I was 25 in 2001. Prior to that, when I was at Uni if anyone wanted me they had to send a letter, or if they were in a rush, put a 1st class stamp on it. "

Showing my age, a nec 9a with etacs in 1987i was going to buy the Motorola . But chose that instead, because you could put it in your pocket, as long as the pocket was very big.

Cost me about 900 to buy and I think 25 a month rental , calls were expensive and no texting

It was massive in today's standards, but in 80's standards it was tiny, as it predecessor was very big,

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"1996. Think it was a Nokia and Ive had the same number ever since"

1998 for me also Nokia and surprisingly I still use that same number!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think it was about 1997 I can't remember properly. It was a Nokia and until I got the iPhone 4 3 years ago I had only ever had Nokia.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"2001, I was 11 and it was a Mars Trium....does anyone remember them?"
I had a trium top tech back in the day x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

1998/99. It was a savvy. Can't remember who made it. Like a little brick.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

1990 in van pound a minute lol,first one i ever saw was in boss.bmw bout 86 on seuricor network,more for show unit was bigger than 12cd changer lol think you could only speak to people on that network!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

About 97. It was a Panasonic half brick

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nokia 3210 in 2000 when I was 15

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It was in 1997 and it was a little red Siemens, they came in red or blue if I remember rightly, I still have the same number.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Motorola wings startac,,mid 90's I think

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"We had a Motorola yuppie brick phone back in the day, whatever that was?"

Same here, on Orange!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I had a phillips phone on Orange when i was 12..

My nokia 3310 was my 15th bday pressie. Loved it dearly until the upgrade of the 3330. Snake 2 and composing my own ringtones!!

All the covers and buttons to choose from (prefererd plastic to jelly)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

2000 when I was 30

Nokia with O2 and still with the and same number

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I had a car phone before I had a mobile,Motorola,I think circa 1988.my first mobile was a Nokia a few years after that.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Was either a Motorola or an Alcatel in 1999/2000

Then a Nokia you could program your own ringtones in (spent ages nagging my Mum to find me loads and spent forever typing them in). I had a pink scooby doo case for it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Can't remember the make but I remember it was like a "brick" lol and the battery was massive

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

1996

it was a Motorola

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fought it as long as I could, loved my message pager hated the phone. Pager left me to choose what was important. Nokia in 94. Still wont take a mobile on a night out feels wrong to be 'available '

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By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden

I had this monstrous Motorola thing in the mid 90's.

I didn't quite get the 'mobile' concept as I used to turn it off when I didn't need to make a call.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I had a Motorola 8000s back in 1998/9

I loved motorolas (best spellcheck) up until I got an iPhone

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When did everyone get their first mobile phone?

I never had a mobile until I was 25 in 2001. Prior to that, when I was at Uni if anyone wanted me they had to send a letter, or if they were in a rush, put a 1st class stamp on it. "
1998/1999 a old brick!!!

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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in North Norfolk

I can't remember exactly.

It wasn't before 1995 because that's the year I graduated. I don't *think* it was before 1997.

At a guess, I'd say '98 or '99.

I can't remember which model I had first. I can remember a few I've had along the way though. I've still got one of my earliest 'phones because it's pretty.

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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in North Norfolk

I just checked and the 'phone I still have, (a Nokia 6110 in chameleon flip colours green/purple), was made between 1997 and 2001 so '98 or '99 is a reasonable guess.

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