Your first phone?
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and i used a number 2, but i think my first mobile that i owned was a 6
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My parents had Ericson (sp?) phones like #6 in the 90s, my first cell phone was senior year of college, a flip (like #12) and later a slide (like #15). Eventually I got a Blackberry Storm (iPhone-ish) and I think briefly an Android before I jumped over to the iPhone 4. I think I made the move after seeing my brother take a photo with his iPhone and the insanely good quality jump.
Sadly, I didn't keep my early phones... kind of regret tossing them, would be fun to show the kids eventually.
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had this next to my bed growing up
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We had a rotary on the wall phone, and then when the push buttons came out my dad thought it would be cool to put a blue princess push bottom phone on the 1960’s blue toilet in the bathroom.
We had a black rotary phone with a little twist button and two phone lines at my stepfathers house. -
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I really meant first cell phone. Of course we all had the Western Electric model 500. The phone company issued them to
usour parents. We didn’t even own them back then.Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.
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had this next to my bed growing up
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I really meant first cell phone. Of course we all had the Western Electric model 500. The phone company issued them to
usour parents. We didn’t even own them back then. -
I really meant first cell phone. Of course we all had the Western Electric model 500. The phone company issued them to
usour parents. We didn’t even own them back then.@jon-nyc said:
The phone company issued them tousour parents. We didn’t even own them back then.My parents owned rotary phones, but I owned wall-mounted touchstone phones myself. I was already living on my own at the time, so I owned the wall-mounted phones, not my parents. I also owned DECT phones, "cordless" yet "not wireless."
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Here they didn't allow you to own your own rotary phones until the 80s for most people, though in some areas you could do it in the late 70s. For decades ma bell wouldn't allow devices they didn't own to be connected. You were forced to rent them.
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Here they didn't allow you to own your own rotary phones until the 80s for most people, though in some areas you could do it in the late 70s. For decades ma bell wouldn't allow devices they didn't own to be connected. You were forced to rent them.
Here they didn't allow you to own your own rotary phones until the 80s for most people, though in some areas you could do it in the late 70s. For decades ma bell wouldn't allow devices they didn't own to be connected. You were forced to rent them.
It was the same in the UK. You had to rent them from the Post Office who ran the service until it was privatised in the 1980s. We had a party line - shared with a neighbour
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