My first mobile was a...

Exemplar

Sony CMDZ5, wicked!! remember it had that fishing game on it!! Ha brilliant!

fiendishlyclever

When I got my first mobile it was a creaky Motorola (you had to be careful not to squeeze it when you were on a call) with a pull-out antenna. It came bundled with a year's line rental (Orange Boxed and Ready?).

That was in the day before cross network texts (later on I moved to Vodafone and used an international message centre to get free SMS messages, those were the days).

It looked something like this:

Catherine_:]

I got my first mobile when I was starting high school 2003. It was a nokia 3310, it was a great wee phone. Have had several phones since then.

I now have a Blackberry Curve 3G

thepurplegoldfish

sparky93

My 1st was on vf, a panasonic j series analogue

Then went on to orange with several nokia 2140's and a moto mr1. stayed with nokia most of the time to now. Currently running a nokia e71 and a beta nokia e6.

whitelabel

tuxgirl wrote: »

Mine was a Nokia 3410 when I was 11 and went to high school, for "safety" because it was two bus journeys away. For some reason, I was the only kid in my friend group who had a Nokia, and was the only one with Snake, so it made me incredibly popular.

(I can't post a picture because I'm still a newbie sorry!)

here you go

jenniewb

whitelabel wrote: »

followed by a siemens c35 ......

THATS IT!! That was the phone I first had!

Sorry to hear about the tumor, hope things are getting better for you?

whitelabel

jenniewb wrote: »

THATS IT!! That was the phone I first had!

Sorry to hear about the tumor, hope things are getting better for you?

not really but thanks for the concern

rob_wiltshire

diamonds wrote: »

I cant remember but it was 1993, and Voda & o2(BT Cellnet) were the choice and Vodafone sold a contract to a 16 year old and it was £17.50 a month for nothing and calls were 80p a minute to standard landlines or mobiles.

Yes, this sounds familiar! In around 1992 I got an NEC Cellstar 500 phone - a large lump of hard, grey plastic with recessed buttons and an incredibly fragile aerial sticking out the top!

I can't remember how much it cost to buy (it wouldn't have been 'free' like today) but it was on BT Cellnet and, as diamonds says, the 'line rental' was £17.50 per month - the equivalent of £27.50 in todays money. There were no inclusive minutes and calls were 50 pence per minute peak and 20 pence per minute off-peak (I can't remember whether calls to mobiles were more expensive).

There was no charge for texting....because it hadn't been invented then!

Lorian

It wasnt my first phone, but I still have my MicroTac, like this one: