What was your first cell phone?

Ericsson T18s

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I was using this Nokia here up until late last year. It was a good phone, great battery, very tough .
. My first was a star-tac, mid to late 90s. It was small.
. Anyone here remember when SNL ran that w.farell skit when he whipped out his ultra tiny cell phone and the others in that skit could barely keep it together?
That was my first phone to!!!
 
First one "technically" was the Dynatac 8900...our boss bought them for the entire service department.
The first one I owned myself, was the moto flip phone, then the star tac and then the star tac digital.
Still have the digital star tac.
 
Sony erikkson att prepaid. They didn't have touch phones then, but it was smaller than my present smartphone. Only fifty for the phone, then dollars a month. Handsome picture of mark paul gosselar. Actually, it was on cingular one which gthen became sbc and finally att.
 
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Nokia 8390, the smallest phoned I ever owned, this allowed it to fit down the barrel of my air cannon, after I got a new phone there was nothing left of the 8390.

It also made a brief appearance in Terminator 3 as Catherine Brewster's cell phone.
 
A Sagem GSM phone in 1996. You could make and recieve calls, and send and recieve sms. That was it.

Since then, well, I can't remeber them all, but here's a few:

Feature phones: Ericsson 318, Panasonic G450, Ericsson T28s, Nokia 3210, Nokia 8210, Nokia 9100i, Nokia 6500, Nokia 2730.

Smartphones: Samsung Galaxy Mini (their first mini), Samsung Galaxy S2, Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini, and currently Huawei Ascend G620S.
 
My first cell was the Panasonic TX-210. An absolute beauty, and I got her on my 18th birthday. You could change the colour of the backlight, it was one of the very first phones to support T9, and the battery lasted a week. I'm honestly not sure if I've ever loved any smartphone as much as that first cell.
 
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A phillips savvy, An interesting feature of this phone was your remaining minutes data was stored on the handset, and not by the service carrier.

Free calls for all !
 
Nokia and Motorola would be the first cell phone of many people. they were quite popular back then. but look at them now. you have to catch up with the fashion.
 
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That I my first cell phone. 99.99% of the time it was used for texting . Pay as I go, I think it was$10.00 for 20 minutes or so. Back in the late 90's
 
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