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

[frumpet]

I was 14 when i got my phone... about a year or so after the rest of my mates!

First phone was an Alcatel One Touch 311 on One2One pay as you go.

[jklm_37]

23...

[directhex]

aged 16, and really over-abusing a friend's generosity by sending a large number of messages to my recently acquired girlfriend with his phone - hence getting my own

replaced the db4000 with the following within a couple of months, as breathing near it was enough to break it - and it had a horrible habit of trying to write 65536 text messages rather than 10 to the SIM

[scotty6435]

I got my first phone when I was 16 years old about 3 months after pay as you go phones first came out. The thing was TINY (like quarter the size of the motorola brick phones of the time) and was so easy to use. I've had a phone since then so that's over 6 years.

[Elmo]

15/16, i nabbed my mum's phillips C12 on O2, then ditched that for a nokia 5110.

[IBM]

22 I think...a Motorolla V66...made we swear off Moto's for life (although I still admire their styling from a safe distance)

[Dav0s]

eeek im the youngest lol

[axis09]

i dont have a mobile phone, and probably never will, unless you can pin one to your shirt and it teleports as well

[XA04]

8-9 iirc.

[dancingtornado]

I think i was 14 or 15 i got the nokia 3210e lol. Had that for a few years then i got a sagem myx-2 for 1 year than i got nokia 7600 i had that for 3/4 a year when i sold it and got a contract d500 as i turned 18

[Aaron]

I was 16 and PAYG had only just been introduced. It was a massive Philips brick that took credit card-sized SIMs and was on Cellnet. I remember Vodafone used to charge a monthly fee on PAYG back then!

I kept the phone for about 2 years before getting a much nicer Nokia 8210 on Orange. There my love affair with phones began.

EDIT: It was a Philips Diga. Seems like quite a popular first phone.

[Tumble]

18, and that was a work provided 3110 - never actually had me own until now, and it's still a work sim card

[bad boy]

let me see i think i was 13 and i remember it was a phillip savy with vioce dialing lol

still rang out the wrong number

and them days on btcellnet it was £10 minimum to top up and u needed to top up once a month or they cut it off lol

[Nick F]

I was 14 and had a Nokia 3210 I think. Was a fantastic phone at the time. Just goes to show how much things have changed.

[dave87]

11 and it was a 5110 - now that was a quality phone

[Duncan_Mon]

I was 10, back in 2000, the nokia 3210 my first phone, later moving up to a useless Samsung which i cant remember the name of, then to a Sagem myx-5 then a Nokia 7250i, now my trust Samsung D600.

It was a neccesity really when i was young, i stay quite far outwards of the village i live in, and was out nearly every night with freinds at the park, the mobile just made things perfect