What year did you have your first mobile phone?

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I think I had my first ever mobile phone (The Brick) in 1998 when I was 32. Checking through photos, I think it was a Siemens S6 and me and my partner got one each (our phone numbers were 1 digit apart) because I was pregnant and he worked away a lot.

I loved that phone. It was pretty sleek feeling.

When did you get your first mobile and how old were you?

1999 erikson blue flip phone

This was my first phone too, in 1999! You could send emoji-type pictures but it only worked when you sent them to someone with the same phone. It wasn't a hugely helpful feature for me because everyone else had a Nokia at that time!

1998/99.

I remember when texting first came out. Used to cost 10p per message.

1994 Motorola M400 on Celnet "one to one", the SIM card was the size of a full size credit card, and they wasn't any way to lock the keyboard.

It was so cool...(at the time :-)

2002, I was 11. My sister's boyfriend bought her a brand new phone, so I got her pink Nokia 3210.

Mine were 12p! And you had to have 'service credit' and 'calling credit' on PAYG
At some point (not sure if it eat l was when i had my first phone, or later) it was free to phone Vodafone to Vodafone. So my parents switched their provider so we could contact them for free.

1997

My first phone was a Sony mars bar…way back in ‘93. But then, I was 23 back then!! I th8nk the monthly line rental was about the same as I pay today 😂

https://www.mobilephonemuseum.com/phone-detail/sony-cm-h333

1999! I still remember getting a bit nervous about switching to a touchscreen phone in 2015 "what are apps?"

1996 Nokia on Orange. Cost me £100, and you could attach it to a camera and a fax machine to send photos. It also had this newfangled thing called SMS, that I didn't see the point of...😆

About 1997 I think, a Sony similar to this with the little flip down microphone arm.

@ZookeeperSE that's quite cute! Haven't seen one before

About 1997 I think and it was one of these My husband at the time had a work mobile and it was the brick type. I believe he had that from about 1993/94. My first contract was with Orange and I have had the same mobile number since.



2001 and I was 25. Think it was an Eriksson - was black and had a flip screen

Think it was 1999 while in second year at university- moved into a shared house so didn't have phones in our rooms like in the hall of residence

I had a Nokia ?3310 def had one of those by the year 2000

I can remember clearly...the future's bright- the future's Orange

Ahhh many fond memories of playing Snake!

1999, I was 14 and it was a Christmas present. It was one of those BT Cellnet Philips "Savvys" and me, my Mum and my Grandad all had the same model. My second phone- a birthday present in 2002- was my favourite phone I ever had though. It was the Samsung A300 and was the first flip phone I owned. It was tiny and delicate and I felt like I was in NASA tooling around town with that in my pocket.

What's so striking looking at this Mobile Phone Museum people have been linking is how many types and styles of phones there were before iPhones... there was so much variety and I can remember with real clarity which phones various friends and boyfriends and colleagues had. Apple really killed creative design of phones after 2007.

I got a PAYG Motorola Colorado for my 18th birthday in July 1999. I was one of my first friends to get a phone but it definitely got used a lot more once I went to university later that year. I lived at home but most of my friends there were in halls so their parents had given them phones before leaving for uni.

2000. An Eriricson flip phone!!

I think it was 1999. I was late twenties. A Motorola but I can't remember the model.

A few years later someone gave me their secondhand Nokia 3210. It then proceeded to last (and work perfectly) for many many years until I got a smartphone in 2010/2011.

Nokia flip phone in 1998. It was mostly for work. I miss a flip phone actually. There was something satisfying about flipping it closed after a boring conversation.

@ZookeeperSE
I agree with the poster who said that phone is cute. I've never seen one of those.

2001, Nokia 3210 - I was 18!

1999 and it was a Nokia with a red fascia. I was in high school and went with my parents to the phone shop with the intention of buying new but ended up with a phone that briefly belonged to someone else before. It was a good deal at £99 but came with the risk that someone would phone for the previous owner which was weirdly concerning to me at the time.

I can remember the novelty of texting back and forth with my friend in another school "in english. v bored. wot class r u in?"