About 25-26 which was about 11-12 years ago. I remember having to text photos and status updates to Facebook. Then I finally got an Iphone when I moved to BC in 2012.
I was 16 and paid for it myself. An old LG flip phone, but I guess the times have changed. When I was younger you would call your friends landline or take a bike over to their place. How many people still have landlines?
My first phone was 16 in 1994. I took a summer job with glentel (telecommunications) installing CB radios in farm equipment and they gave me a phone and pager. I was the only one to have one and everyone thought I was a drug dealer. It was some terrible nokia that was replaced with a startrac in 1996 which I kept until 8810 and then my all time favourite phone the 8210. Battery lasted a week and I had about 10 different faceplates to match whatever hat I was wearing (yeah that’s right, I was a ######).
My first was a Siemens s6 like this, I think in late 1997 when I moved away from home. Ugly and big, but actually quite flat by those days standards, so it fit into a coat pocket nicely. I was pretty happy with it, but never saw anyone else carry one. I think it's a bit of a collectors item now.
Probably around 17 yrs ago when I was 35. I decided to get one when I got a flat tire as I was riding my bike home one day and I had a tight timeline as the wife and I were going somewhere.
Got a flat tire on my bike on the trail right where quarry park is today (this was when it was still a gravel pit and the path along there was a gravel road. Fortunately another rider came along and he had a phone and I was able to call the wife and get he to meet me by the douglasdale driving range.
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I remember thinking the idea of a cell phone was intrusive, I held out until I was 29 in 2001. Up until then we had phones in our office that we could check out when we did field work.
18..2004. Got one of these. Cant remember the model. I was excited!
Spoiler!
2004/2005 2nd phone Blackberry Pearl
Then after a couple years I got a Motorola Razer and abruptly lost it.
Then I got a Blackberry Storm. Worst phone I have ever owned. Internet browser was brutal on it. No physical keyboard, was pretty as hell though.
Then I lost that thing and get a iPhone 3GS. Used that for the full duration (paid for the warranty from best buy *don't ever buy this, ended up costing me 500+ bucks over the next three years* . To be fair that was a good phone, but I wanted the physical keyboard back from my pearl days.
I took another dive into the world of Motorola. Bought a droid. Didnt like the keyboard at all and at the time didnt like the Android operating system. Punted that baby for...
Then I got a Blackberry Q10 for work. Really liked it but wanted something a bit bigger so then I got a....
Blackberry Passport. Which honestly I would still be using to this day, hands down the best cellphone I have ever owned. Blackberry is slowly shutting down support for this device and It will basically be unusable sometime this year.
Currently I have a Blackberry Keyone. I like it but not nearly as much as my passport. If they ever make another Passport ill be going for that forsure.
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Seriously, nobody had this as their first mobile phone? Like, seriously, people???!
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