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  • mommy2AR
    mommy2AR Posts: 2,802 Member
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    I was 18 and now I am 30 :)
  • MrAllia
    MrAllia Posts: 60 Member
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    I remember when cell phones came out. I also remember when a time before Microsoft existed (Yay DOS), oh, remember when those pesky dinosaurs roamed the earth?! Ah, the good ole' days. Beepers were the rave in my teens/tweens 911, 3407, 14, 07734 (Translated means Emergency, Love, Hi, and Hello in number form on a beeper) My first cell phone must have been when I was 25. It was a Mitsubishi phone, revolutionary at the time.
  • sho3girl
    sho3girl Posts: 10,799 Member
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    17 paid for myself - lucky i worked for the phone supplier so got to choose my number as aswell !!
  • Italian_Buju
    Italian_Buju Posts: 8,030 Member
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    I was 16. and paid for it myself....I am 36 now.....I was actually the first person I knew that had one....I was SO busy though, that it really came in handy....

    Edited to add: I had a pager at some point too, but it was AFTER that first phone, not sure why now, too long ago, can't recall......
  • StrengthIDidntKnow
    StrengthIDidntKnow Posts: 568 Member
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    I had a pager first. My first cell phone was 23, I worked for Nextel and it came with the job. It was so heavy, it broke the straps on my pocketbook. I am 38 now.
  • marieautumn
    marieautumn Posts: 932 Member
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    i was 15 and a big upgrade from my pager. I'm 25 now.
  • mandamommy3
    mandamommy3 Posts: 297 Member
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    Got mine at 18 when I started working, I'm 26.
  • mndamon
    mndamon Posts: 547 Member
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    zack-morris-phone.jpg

    Ha! This was the first thing I thought of.
  • kalawhon
    kalawhon Posts: 162 Member
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    I believe my mom bought me and my brother one when I was 17, didn't use it much bc the minutes ran out.. Ha!. I'm 25 now.. (that cell phone didn't last long)
  • kalawhon
    kalawhon Posts: 162 Member
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    zack-morris-phone.jpg

    Ha! This was the first thing I thought of.

    haha funny!!
  • livinginwoods
    livinginwoods Posts: 562 Member
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    I was 20, 32 now!
  • husker_gal
    husker_gal Posts: 462 Member
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    I got my first one at 14. I worked the entire summer babysitting so I could buy it and pay the entire year in advance. I'm 24.
  • OneFitDude16
    OneFitDude16 Posts: 169
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    when i was 12
  • staceface519
    staceface519 Posts: 167
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    I got my first cell phone at 17 when i started driving. . . after that i had to buy every cell phone ive ever owned and pay my bill. . . (i miss my $20 bill ). . . now im 27 and spend way to much on cell phones and plans lol
  • michelejoann
    michelejoann Posts: 295 Member
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    19. This is back when many people my age didn't have cell phones. Mine was tiny compared to those Nokia bricks they used to hand out. It was an Ericsson flip-phone on VOICESTREAM! This was before T-Maybe even EXISTED!

    I've been rolling with VZN since 2003, though.
  • clairyfairy247
    clairyfairy247 Posts: 425 Member
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    I was really young - about 10/11. It was my mum's old phone (a super old Nokia 6110 I think) and it was only for emergencies or calling to tell me dinner was ready when I was playing at a friends.

    I'm 20 now.
  • confettibetti
    confettibetti Posts: 405 Member
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    hmmm first cell phone was one of those car phones, it was one of those bagged phones, does that count?? and I was 16. I am 31 now :)
  • staceface519
    staceface519 Posts: 167
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    I was SO cool with my pager at 17. Remember getting 911 pages from my friends and having to find a pay phone to see what was up. Cell phone wasn't until I was 19 and leaving for college. It was HUGE.

    HAHA i remember those days. . . i had a pager before a cell phone and my parents were pissed because id never call them back. . then they got me a cell phone so i had no excuse. lol.

    P.S. pagers were AWESOME!
  • andiechick
    andiechick Posts: 916 Member
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    I got mine at 25 when I started working in Customer Services for a mobile phone company and they were still relatively new for use outside of work so most of us hadn't had one. I'm 39 now
  • amberecochran
    amberecochran Posts: 124 Member
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    I think I was 25 when I got my first cell phone. I am 35 now.

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