My first phone was a Nokia 3410! I got it for my 16th birthday in February 2004, so I was a bit of latecomer to mobile phones. My parents wouldn’t let me have one any earlier but I managed to convince them at that point that it was necessary. I was so happy with it. I was on pay as you go, so I was semi regularly buying credit. 10p per text! :drama:

 

No wonder txt spk became a thing, it was necessary not to bankrupt yourself!

The phone box outside the house was my first mobile phone. You had to walk outside to use it and stick money in the slot. :lol:

 

"We were so poor we used to tie two empty tin cans together with a long piece of string so we could talk to somebody in the next room". I was 18 before we got a landline :lol:

My first phone was a Samsung SGH-E900, I still have it in my bedroom although I think I've lost the battery charger sadly. Agreed with the comment about missing being able to easily change a phone battery, I'd love to be able to just keep 2 batteries for an iPhone, keep one on charge and be able to swap it when the one I'm using starts to run out so I'd never have to keep the phone itself plugged in. Alas ~

 

My best memory of that phone is the ikonek built in game Bobby Carrot (so iconic that I forgot what it was called and took me a while to find it on Google :kink:) - I don't think I ever got past the first few levels but I had fun playing them over and over :lol:

 

I don't remember exactly when I got that phone but I assume it would have been not that long after it came out so like 2006/7. And that was the only phone I used until I eventually decided to upgrade to an iPhone 6 in 2014. Idk why I was so stubborn about upgrading as my dad offered to buy me an iPhone as a present several times in the years before that and I always refused saying I didn't see the point in upgrading, as soon as I did I quickly realised I was quite wrong about that :kink:

 

But... it was a slide phone so still the best phone I've owned tbh, come back when an iPhone can do this xx

 

 

This Sony Ericsson which Google tells me was a W610i. Can't remember exactly what age I got it but it was definitely secondary school before my parents thought there was any need for me to have a phone.

 

I had that until November 2014, can't believe I was 18 and a couple of months into my working life before deciding to upgrade to a smartphone!! (And even that it was EE own-brand, cheapest thing I could find)

This:

 

Mine was Siemens C25

Then few months later the antenna were broken

 

I think it was some Motorola thing around 2000 that looked like a brick house phone and had an aerial.

 

I distinctly remember my Mum allowing me to buy it, then excitedly calling her to get out of the bath and show her it had been fully charged. She was REALLY not happy with me. :lol:

Edited January 20, 20232 yr by Jessie Where