Weekend Open Forum: At what age did you get your first cell phone?

OK all you "kids". My first cell phone was one I had put in my car. It consisted of a handset wired to a cradle that mounted on the transmission tunnel. The cradle had a huge bundle of wiring that had to then be snaked under the carpet, under the carpet trim by the door, all the way back into the trunk. That wiring harness led to a large finned box that had to be mounted on the trunk floor. Then, the antenna was mounted on the back window. Finally, in those days, if you got reception for more than a block at a time, you were lucky.

Am 53 and my first phone was a motorola T191 in 2002. Very cool then

13, It was a Christmas present. Had no color, it was that famous green background, with black blocky text. Lasted forever though! Other's had color screens, this was a free phone, but unlike kids today, I was just happy to have a cell phone.. Now 10 year olds have iphones.. My younger brothers (8 years younger) got phones before they were 13, but they were regular phones.. nothing fancy.

I'm still using my first cell phone, Sony Ericsson w300i, which I got for 5~6 years now.

Think I was 14 and it was a Motorola brick. Weighed about 2kg, enabled 3 lines of text, each consisting of 12 characters and if you didn't like someone you could leave a message on the screen and lob it through their window.

Was about 45, a Sony Erricson, and I still have it and it still works.

Nokia 1011 year 1998 my first was 2de hand

I think I was quite young when I got mine. Must have been about 14. It was that big huge Motorola thing. Actually I think it was one of the first popular commercial phones. I had one of those silly pager things before. Didn't really know how to use it, just thought it looked cool. By the way please check out my new blog techtimemachine.blogspot.co.uk

First work phone was given to me by my employer in approximately 1994. It was a bag phone and the service provider was Bell Atlantic Mobile. I was 34. Got my first personal cell in approx 1997. It was a Motorola StarTac.

I remember very well that I received my first mobile phone when I was 17 years old. They'd been around for some time back then, but I'd never felt the urge to get one, primarily because I didn't think they were worth the expenditure. My first cell phone was a Nokia. I forget the model. My two older brothers had thrown some coin together to get it for me as a "gift" on my birthday. I was very pleased and very flattered as they were always rather stingy when we were growing up together. They still are.

It didn't take long before I realized that they had given it to me in order to keep track of my whereabouts when I went out on dates.

My first cell phone, in the early 90's, was a Motorola Dyna-Tac, "the brick", in my mid 30's. You were lucky to get a couple hours out of
a charge, and, that was if you didn't talk on it much.

I got a Motorola v220 when I was 18. That was 9 years ago... damn.
I put that thing through some rough stuff... most of the color had been scratched off from being bounced off the pavement and just about everything else.
Still worked like a champ though, by the time I retired it 3 years later.
However, the battery was in bad shape... It had about 45 minutes of talk time and about 5 hours standby at that point.

That's very clever Of OF you, but no. It has nothing do with what I look than my avatar nor my statement has anything do with my avatar. LOL, what were you thinking?

I was, and still am thinking, if you and your avatar don't look anything alike, then we can't very well, "look at you now", can we? I'm also thinking the phrase, "look at me now", as you used it, is an idiomatic expression which in this case, references back to nothing.

So, me ol' mind reader is on the fritz again. I prithee tell me, what exactly is the point of reference to which I should be looking?

I had a bicycle when I was twelve, look at me now... Wut..?

And since it's Saturday night let's liven up the place with this old saw..

I had my first cell when I was 30 and it was the size of a brick with a antenna.( reminded me of the cell phone Gordon Gekko had) I bought it because my wife was having a difficult pregnancy and I was always in my car for work. I was using a pager at the time...dreadful contraptions.

I'm 21,got Ericsson T10s when I was 10/11 years old

In 1995 at the age of 27 I got promoted to Wireless manager at NBC. From 1995-2008 I got first dibs on just about any model released. I was also in charge of corporate "Beepers" Most people called me cellphone guy or beeper king..