How old were you

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  • Ohmydaze
    Ohmydaze Posts: 403 Member
    I think I was 7 or 8. It was a nokia black and white screen brick. I played snake on it.

    Yes, that's young, but my parents travelled a lot, it kept me quiet playing Snake in the car, and it was already like 3rd hand. My dad worked recycling mobile phones, and it was a spare.
  • luv_lea
    luv_lea Posts: 1,094 Member
    I was 16. It was under my dad's name, but I payed the bill. I had a job (was my third job already) and by this time I already had a car payment. My dad insisted on teaching idea of 'nothing comes free,' and 'working for what you get.'

    I'm 27 now.
  • MichelleB1427
    MichelleB1427 Posts: 73
    I think I was 18. I had a job so my parents wanted me to have one just in case of emergencies. I am now 25. =) My niece has a cell phone... She is freakin' 11.... Why?!
  • Monalisa85
    Monalisa85 Posts: 31 Member
    I was 45. I'm now 57. I grew up with no home phone either. Yeah, back in the day........:wink:
  • ElyseL1
    ElyseL1 Posts: 504 Member
    18, going away to college. I'm 26 now. It was an ugly red nokia phone that overheated in 20 min lol
  • pinn44
    pinn44 Posts: 68
    I was around 24 or so and I'm 44 now.
  • magj0y
    magj0y Posts: 1,911 Member
    My kids get one when they're 17. I got one for my 16 yr old and she only uses it when she's at school functions.


    I got my first one 8? years ago when I was 32. The next day my car broke down no where near a payphone, haha.
    I hated it otherwise.
  • lindsy721
    lindsy721 Posts: 350 Member
    I was 18, my parents got it for me when I went to college so they could... idk, monitor me or something (?)... and now I'm 27.
  • LouiseRose92
    LouiseRose92 Posts: 112
    When I was about 10 somebody gave me their old phone to play Snake on, and I promptly lost it.
    I think I was about 12/13 when I got my first "real" phone as a birthday present. It had a colour screen :happy: only one out of all my friends, I was thrilled.
  • spectralmoon
    spectralmoon Posts: 1,179 Member
    I think 17 or 18. I'm 28 now, and I've forgotten when my first Nokia happened.
  • tiffanyvc
    tiffanyvc Posts: 99
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    My parents had that very phone. I remember how awesome I thought it was. :laugh:
  • jenaissance
    jenaissance Posts: 302 Member
    21, when I moved out of my parents house. 33 now.
  • barbaby89
    barbaby89 Posts: 2
    I was 16 and a junior in high school. My parents bought my first couple. I am 23 now.. :)
  • ckay220
    ckay220 Posts: 271 Member
    13 I think? I know it was my gift for being promoted to 9th grade. I'm 18 now.
  • MsTanya77
    MsTanya77 Posts: 357 Member
    I was 22 when I got my first cell phone back in 99 it was a Motorola and about the size of your standard cordless phone LOL. I had a pager and cell phone at the same time. I'm now 35.
  • Hellbent_Heidi
    Hellbent_Heidi Posts: 3,669 Member
    IDK...20 or 21 I think.....that's when they were just becoming affordable to everyone though (I'm 42 now).
  • KittieLea
    KittieLea Posts: 1,156 Member
    I'm pretty old, does a pager count?
    LOL Same here! I was 16 when I got my first PAGER, 18 when I got my first cell.
  • fbmandy55
    fbmandy55 Posts: 5,263 Member
    15... This was in the year 2002 and because they were starting to become affordable. I used it for my mom to pick me up froom football games, the mall, etc...
  • deadstarsunburn
    deadstarsunburn Posts: 1,337 Member
    I've had a cell phone for as long as I've been working so either 12 or 13. I purchased it myself. I didn't really use it other than to call my parents to be picked up and to talk with my friends from the school I transferred from.

    I'm 20.
  • herwholejourney
    herwholejourney Posts: 86 Member
    8th grade (I think that would be 14 or 15) I am 25
  • chubby_checkers
    chubby_checkers Posts: 2,352 Member
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    I had one remarkably similar to the first phone in the pic. It was technically my dad's phone but I drove a rather unreliable van so carried that when I went out. I think I was 17; 30 now.
  • KittieLea
    KittieLea Posts: 1,156 Member
    I was 22 when I got my first cell phone back in 99 it was a Motorola and about the size of your standard cordless phone LOL. I had a pager and cell phone at the same time. I'm now 35.
    Switch your motorola to a primeco phone.
  • DeniseBromley
    DeniseBromley Posts: 123 Member
    I had a prepaid TracFone for emergencies when I was 15, and didn't get a regular cell until I was 17 & paid for it myself. I'm now 27.
  • angelicarubi
    angelicarubi Posts: 148 Member
    When you got your first cell phone? And how old are you?

    I got my first at 17 when I had a job and could buy one. I'm 25


    I also got mine at 17 and I am 20 now.
  • LesIsMoreXX
    LesIsMoreXX Posts: 169
    I was 18 or 19.
  • Hellbent_Heidi
    Hellbent_Heidi Posts: 3,669 Member
    I remember a guy giving me his pager number and my dad was all worried because he thought it meant the guy was a drug dealer.
    That's funny...I actually DID date a drug dealer :noway:
  • KimtheBanker
    KimtheBanker Posts: 3
    I am 40 and still do not have a cell phone.
  • KittieLea
    KittieLea Posts: 1,156 Member
    I got my first cell phone at 12.

    This was when cell phones were still kind of new. I had midi ringtones, for example, and they didn't have the cellphone covers. It was a gold nokia phone.

    BUT my circumstances were unique. My mom gave it to me in case she was at work and my dad got too violent and I needed to call 911. He never knew about the phone. He would have killed us if he found out.

    ETA: I'm 23
    This broke my heart :flowerforyou:
  • AmyFett
    AmyFett Posts: 1,607 Member
    I was 16, and my mom bought me a cheapie tracfone and a 10 minute time card for christmas. I had to keep up with the time if I wanted to keep the phone. I'm 25 now, and my kids will go through the same. They're not getting things just handed out to them.
  • violetta88
    violetta88 Posts: 117 Member
    I was 11, which in retrospect was probably way too young (I'm 23 now). But my dad had just got a big promotion and desperately wanted to buy me all the stuff he couldn't before, bless his heart.

    I was the only kid in my class with one, which made me pretty "cool", whatever that means nowadays. Of course that meant I had no friends to call or text!

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