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Your first phone?

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  • jon-nycJ Offline
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    jon-nyc
    wrote last edited by jon-nyc
    #1

    (Hat tip @pianojerome)

    IMG_2136.jpeg

    My first was #4. I also had 6, 7, 11 and 12. Though the 11 I had after the 12.

    From the blackberry I went to iPhone 4S->7->11->15.

    Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

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    • AxtremusA Offline
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      #2

      I had landline phones before any of these.
      My first “mobile” phone was a Qualcomm, not listed in the picture but visually looked closest to #2.

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      • HoraceH Offline
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        Horace
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        #3

        Is he still living as a lady? Just curious. Nothing wrong with that.

        Education is extremely important.

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        • HoraceH Offline
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          Horace
          wrote last edited by
          #4

          I don't remember, but I was a late adopter. Looked something like 9 or 10.

          Education is extremely important.

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          • bachophileB Offline
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            bachophile
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            #5

            b598aa37-d799-4da1-b83d-20bd4af0e261-image.jpeg

            had this next to my bed growing up

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            • bachophileB Offline
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              bachophile
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              #6

              and i used a number 2, but i think my first mobile that i owned was a 6

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              • 89th8 Offline
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                #7

                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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                • bachophileB bachophile

                  b598aa37-d799-4da1-b83d-20bd4af0e261-image.jpeg

                  had this next to my bed growing up

                  jon-nycJ Offline
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                  jon-nyc
                  wrote last edited by
                  #8

                  @bachophile said:

                  b598aa37-d799-4da1-b83d-20bd4af0e261-image.jpeg

                  had this next to my bed growing up

                  Looks like a direct line to the Kremlin or something.

                  Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

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                  • jodiJ Offline
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                    #9

                    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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                    • markM Offline
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                      #10

                      #1

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                      • MikM Offline
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                        #11

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                        "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." — Thomas Sowell

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                          Doctor Phibes
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                          #12

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                          I was only joking

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                            A.k.a. my ‘brick’

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                            • Tom-KT Offline
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                              Tom-K
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                              #14

                              Yea I had the same phone as Bach except in black. It came fully equipped with an answering machine called, "Mom."

                              Ego similis habere bonum et non curat nunquam accipere malum.

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                                #15

                                I really meant first cell phone. Of course we all had the Western Electric model 500. The phone company issued them to us our parents. We didn’t even own them back then.

                                Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

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                                • bachophileB bachophile

                                  b598aa37-d799-4da1-b83d-20bd4af0e261-image.jpeg

                                  had this next to my bed growing up

                                  jon-nycJ Offline
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                                  jon-nyc
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                                  @bachophile said:

                                  b598aa37-d799-4da1-b83d-20bd4af0e261-image.jpeg

                                  had this next to my bed growing up

                                  A phone in your room?

                                  Spoiled kid. That explains a lot. 🤓

                                  Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

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                                    xenon
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                                    Personally - number 7

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