I was a freshman in college when I got my first cell phone. It was the huge phone that was the size of a maxi-pad box, and it had one ring and no other features at all. I used to put it on my desk in class so people would stare at it and be in awe of it (they weren't, of course). I think my plan was about $60/month, and I had maybe 100 minutes of time. Also, I roamed everywhere except my home city, so I always went over my minutes and had huge bills.
What a sham that was back then!
Re: When did you get your first cell phone?
i was 17 when i got my own phone and quit carrying my dad's. it was a nokia with interchangeable face plates. mine was zebra
it had a simpson's theme song ring tone that i downloaded for $2 or something.
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When I was done with my driver's test, my mom got me to open my trunk and my phone was in there! I was so excited! Oh and I had the purple face plate...I went through a big purple phase in high shcool.
It was after I got married to my ex, so I was maybe 20 or 21? Probably around 1998 or so. I barely remember.
ETA: I had a pager long before I had a cell phone. I recently had it reactivated, too. Can't believe it still works after 15 years.?
I had one my sophomore year of high school! so that was 96.
wow...yeah it was gi freakin normous! But I was one of the first kids to have one, so I was sooooooooooo cool.
bwa hahaha
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I still think cellphones are a bit of a sham. WHy should both ends have to pay for the same call, txt, picture. When you call long distance the person you're calling doesn't get charged!
I think I was 22 when I got my first cellphone.
I rocked the calling card until I was a junior in college. 1999ish. Then I met DH and got a cell phone so we could talk.
I think my calling plan was about the same as yours. Like 5 minutes and I roamed everywhere. lol
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1999, I was 19. I was the first of my siblings and my friends to get a cell phone and I thought I was so cool! It was a teeny tiny Nokia and I loved it (the only other cell phones I had really used were my parent's gigantic Motorolla flip phones). I would always get new interchangeable plates. The novelty of it wore off after a year or so and I realized how annoying cell phones were. I kept it for another couple of years and then decided I was done with cell phones. I didn't get another until the end of my pregnancy and we felt like we needed to get them.
I still think cell phones give people an "excuse" to be incredibly rude and they irritate me.
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