Post your first ever phone

[butcher]

Mine was a techophone305 (bought out by Nokia) in around 1991. This was short lived and costly as I lost it a couple of months after I got it.

I eventually replaced it with a NEC P4

 

[hehejo]

 

[mrmeotz]

 

[microphone head]

Rubbish mic / speaker but good enough for text messages:

 

[Kiopa_Matt]

No idea why, but for whatever reason, those black Motorola flip phones were simply the standard for "working man Alberta" back in the days.

 

[DewChugr]

But why do phones have letters? I know it was originally used to indicate the exchange, but why not just use the number you were dialing instead of a letter?

You didn't specify cell phone, so this...

 

[HiGhPeR]

 

[Ibanez | Jan]

 

[Fatbat]

Some Audiovox black brick circa 1996. Actually it wasn't too bad, not too huge, and built like a tank. Drop kicked it into a big mud puddle in a parking lot one day. Took it apart, dried it off, put it back together and it worked great. Can't do that with the shit that's out now.

 

[eliquid]

you think I am going to remember what phone I had 16 years ago?

 

[HiGhPeR]

you think I am going to remember what phone I had 16 years ago?

You had a cell phone 16 years ago?

Baller.

 

[ShadowCaster]

Some Motorola, similar to OP's NEC P4, ran on 4 AA batteries that gave whooping hour of talk time.

 

[butcher]

you think I am going to remember what phone I had 16 years ago?

My memory is fucked and I can remember my first phone 20+ years ago. What you smokin' bro?

 

[theallspark]

didn't get my first one till i was 21... a nice hand-me-down Motorola M3288

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after that it was the Nokia 8210... first one i actually bought

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[jacky8]

I had a large black nokia (I think) phone similar to this one. It was so tough I could break a brick with it.

 

[Staccs]

 

[natewitt]

 

[acidie]

 

[Douglife]

 

[spitfire]

A hand-me-down. Even 12 years ago, the pull-out aerial was a source of amusement to my schoolmates.