How old were you when you first had a mobile phone?

**Honoop** · 13-07-2006, 04:55 PM

I was 17 - my mum got me one for passing my driving test, so that if I ever got in trouble I could call and get help! (Bless her!)

Same as some of the above mine was a Motorola Flare on one2one - used to get some MASSIVE bills, that was just over 10 yrs ago.... gawd!!

**schmunk** · 13-07-2006, 05:15 PM

Originally Posted by gman1981

I got my own one when I was 18, but had a shared one with my sis when I was 16 for when we went out. I think the one I got when I was 16 was a Nortel Networks thingy, on a Bronze One2One service. Then I got the standard Nokia 5110 that everyone had when i was 18.

Aye, the 5110 was my second phone too.

My first phone was a NEC G9D+. Horrible thing, but I thought it was ace at the time. Only threw it away recently...

Edit: I'm wrong - the 5110 was my 3rd phone, I had a 3110 first (the first edition with the Monty Python theme tune ringtone, which was subsequently removed

)...

**chicken** · 13-07-2006, 05:31 PM

I got my first phone for my 17th birthday, it was one of those Cellnet U Phillips phones with fancy smiles and 5p texts even from abroad.

I think a lot of parents let their kids have mobiles so they can keep in contact with them, call them in for dinner and stuff!

**G4Z** · 13-07-2006, 05:38 PM

I got a Philips U C12 phone with my barclaycard when I was 18, 5p per text on PAYG! couldnt get that deal even now! As chicken says it was even 5p abroad, I used that a lot while on lads holidays.

I bought a similar one for my g/f about a year later, was £30 IIRC. Then they doubled the price for PAYG handsets not long after because they were losing cash on them big time.

**listy** · 13-07-2006, 05:47 PM

im kinda older didnt get one till i was 19 or 20

i didnt need one, got one when i started college
1st one was a philps diga

**5lab** · 13-07-2006, 05:49 PM

16, at college in 1998. it was 'essential' to have one then.. god knows what we all did beforehand

**Dr. X** · 13-07-2006, 05:51 PM

19, in my 1st year at uni

call me a late-adopter, i just couldn't really afford one nor need one!

**Clunk** · 13-07-2006, 06:36 PM

i was 25. nokia 2110 orange, very high tech.

**Dav0s** · 13-07-2006, 07:20 PM

i had one in year 7 at school, so about 11

im only 17 now tho

first phone was a 3210

and ive had the same number ever since

**digit** · 13-07-2006, 07:55 PM

I had some Sony Erricson thing when i was 14, then I had a Sony Erricson T300, then a Nokia 6230 now i have a Motorola SLRV

Always been payg as I don't use my phone often enough to warrent it.

**Funkstar** · 13-07-2006, 08:21 PM

I can't remember exactly when i got my first phone. I was in 1st year at uni and hardly anyone else had one. Would have been 17 or 18.

this is what i had

http://www.cellular-news.com/phones/Ericsson_GA628.php

It was on a weird pre-payed contract. Cost £150 for the phone and 1 years line rental. After that i traded up to a Nokia 7110, then a Siemens SL45 (shudder), SonyEricsson T610, then my K750i (modded to be a W800i) and am waiting for either a W850 or W950

**digit** · 13-07-2006, 10:50 PM

Thats the same beast i had!

MD · 13-07-2006, 11:08 PM

18... surprisingly.... but now I have three at all times. Don't ask.

**Stigggeh** · 13-07-2006, 11:34 PM

Originally Posted by listy

im kinda older didnt get one till i was 19 or 20

i didnt need one, got one when i started college
1st one was a philps diga

i had one of those, i think i was about 17 when i first got it ?, wasnt a bad phone really, but mine didnt have the mad looking thing at the bottom, oh and the sim card was a credit card shape in them i think

**0iD** · 13-07-2006, 11:36 PM

30. I held out a long time, but then i'm an old geeza anyhoo

**Stoo** · 13-07-2006, 11:39 PM

20, I had that Philips one too (without the thing at the bottom), cost about £100 iirc

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