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?

Nokia brick 1998. I was 18.

Sorry 1999 not 1998

In 1988 my youngest son aged 7 months was admitted to hospital with bacterial meningitis. My husband ( his dad) had just been given one of the early mobile phones, a handset attached to a base unit, from his employer. I remember being given this phone while looking after my baby while in an isolation ward in hospital. It was like a brick attached to a base unit but the doctors were fascinated by the technology and it allowed me to have contact with my other two children who were at home with their Daddy. I was so grateful for this technology which allowed me to talk to my children directly from the isolation unit in the hospital.

Does anyone remember the round flip phone with the mirror on the underside like a compact? This would have been around 2002-2004.

Had an nec p100 in 1994. I was out in the early hours delivering milk though so for safety. Was fricking expensive though.

A Motorola in 1996.

2003 for my 12th birthday.

1996 or 97. Motorola. I was 24. Bought it myself.

2000 in Oz. But I remember in circa 1991 my dad having a car phone which had a receiver with a curly wire etc!

In 1997. It was a banana phone. I wish I had kept it!

2000

Around 96/97, a Nokia which I shared with DH, if one of us went out we took the phone so we could ring home if needed on the home phone or if the car broke down.

Nokia 3310 in 2011, age 60. Always hated mobile phones. Didn't want one, but we moved the classic downsized near the sea bungalow. The previous owners had died there was no landline, I walked to the local phone box... emergency calls only. Attempted to find a phone box in the nearest town that actually worked. Got a similar one a few years later with a camera. DH hasn't got any kind of mobile phone, and we don't have a landline anymore.

I definitely had one by the time I met exDH in 1995 because that’s how he called me to ask me out. It was a Nokia and it had a flip and an ariel to pull out before you could answer.

About 1997? I think I was year 9, so 14 ish? It wasn't the Nokia 3310, but the model before that. I did have a 3310 at some point though.

In 1995. I was commuting between Leeds and Sheffield at the time. I was 36.

Actually, I had a work one earlier than that as I was a sales rep before changing jobs in 1994 so it would have been 1993 or 1994.

It really was brick-like and had two detachable batteries so I could charge one on a charging stand while the other was in use.

Mobile phones got much smaller from 1996.

2005 when I turned 11 ready to start high school. A Sagem myx5.

97 I think, I was about 11 and one of my brothers bought a phone off his mate and gave it to me. It had a pull up ariel and a cover that flipped up over the keypad. None of my friends had a mobile yet and at youth club on Friday nights we'd hide in the toilets and call people, especially one particular boy in our class.

1998. Very very excited.

Christmas 1999, some sort of triumph thing via BT cellnet. I was furious, as I didn't want a mobile at all - I valued not being contactable/traceable.

I had one of those. A curly wired handset on the transmission tunnel connected to a big box of gubbins in the boot. Vodafone. It went obsolete when mobile phones moved to a digital network.

2003 and it was an Ericsson.

1997..it was Erickson that folded in half. I loved it

1996 - my dad bought me a very early one for Christmas, it was a People Phone. I still have the same number!

i am thinking 1999 when ds started school