How old were you when you got your first cell phone?

[Aldipants50ish]

Mid 20s. Though I had a car phone in college

[usagisailor]

I had a Nokia brick for my first (and only) year of college. It survived for a long while afterwards too. I had a case for it… god forbid that thing fall off my hip and crack the hardwood floor wide open.

[Dsorgnzd]

I was married, with two children. My wife and I had one cell phone that we shared, which was enough because… it was a phone. Just a phone.

[rogrocco]

Cell phone!!! I remember when TVs had tubes that you would buy replacement s
at Walgreens. I remember when gas was
29 centss and the station would pump it, check your oil and tire pressure, wash your windshield and give you a free box of soap. I remember …

[negleger]

You shouldnt be able to have a phone until you have a drivers license. Heard a quote recently that hit me hard…giving your kid a phone doesnt give them access to the world, it gives the world access to your kid.

[mrlsnyc]

[woottoow2]

Nextel.
If I hear that Push To Talk sound I am reaching for my belt.

[aarond12]

I was this old. No battery; plugged into the 12V socket in my car.

[Wooter486856254]

[jcarrano]

My first mobile phone…

[Borborygmes]

I don’t remember. BUT I remember when the first minute of an incoming call was free.

I had lots of 50-59 second calls.

[jcarrano]

“market research”

[WooterAmax]

I’m older than dirt, so…

[rexswank]

It was about 30 years ago so 36 years young! A Motorola was it for me.

[Wooter991712857]

Don’t remember when but I loved the wall phone back in the day.

There was a magazine sale and the grand prize was a character phone.

Not sure about first cell phone though. I had a tracphone (prepaid card for certain amount of minutes) and another one for work, it was an itty bitty flip phone that fit in front shirt pocket with multi color lights that flashed when it rang and had the snake game.

[ThisRissatoo]

I get it, I’m an Old. It was long, long ago. When texting was a chore and we’d send “c u l8r” and LOL, BTW, IDK, OMG, OMW and BRB became part of the common lexicon.
I’m glad my first phone didn’t support texting - my spelling would have been even worse.

[benjaminleebates]

The wife and I are not early adopters…
I think, mid to late twenties, it was around 2006 or so…
Go-phones…

[copefiend2]

I remember the pager more so than the cell phone.

[benjaminleebates]

@copefiend2

I remember the pager more so than the cell phone.

Sir Mix-A-Lot - Beepers

[benjaminleebates]

Or, for a younger crowd…

The Count & Sinden - Beeper (featuring Kid Sister) (Official Video)