Oppo - Let's See Your First Cell Phone

"Jcarr" (jcarr) 09/15/2015 at 11:21 • Filed to: Random

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I got my first cell phone back in 2000 right around the time I turned 16.

It was an Ericsson PF768 in yellow. It didn’t have any games and didn’t even have vibrate, but it was awesome.

For those of you like me with nothing better to do, here is the list of every phone I’ve ever had (not counting company phones I had while working at Verizon).

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Mitsubishi Trium Aria | Iowa Wireless | 2001-2002

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Nokia 3360 | AT&T | 2002-2003

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Nokia 3650 | AT&T | 2003-2004

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NEC 525 | AT&T/Cingular | 2004-2005

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SonyEricsson Z500 | Cingular | 2005-2006

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Motorola V3M RAZR | Verizon | 2006-2007

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LG VX-8500 “Chocolate” | Verizon | 2007

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LG VX-8600 | Verizon | 2007-2008

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LG VX-9400 | Verizon | 2008

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Samsung SCH-i760 | Verizon | 2008-2009

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HTC XV6900 | Verizon | 2009-2012

Apple iPhone 4S | Verizon | 2012-2013

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Apple iPhone 5S | Verizon | 2013-present

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djmt1 > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 11:28

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No idea what the first phone was called but after that:

Motorola KRZR

HTC Desire

Samsung Galaxy S2

HTC One M7

Oneplus One

Tripper > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 11:29

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I won mine, along with 3 years of service when I was 12 at the “Flyers wives fight for lives carnival”. Since it was free my parents switched it on for me I have had the same number for 18 years! Mine was exactly like the one above except it had a Philadelphia Flyers logo beneath the carrier badge.

Captain of the Enterprise > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 11:30

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Urambo Tauro > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 11:31

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Motorola StarTAC; on a 25min per month plan.

BigBlock440 > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 11:33

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This one was my first.

jjhats > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 11:34

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first one prepaid in 2007:

second thru fourth, various versions of this phone on ebay for 20 bucks 2008-2009 on ATT:

friend in college gave this to me for free with broken screen which I fixed and jailbroke and used on ATT with no data plan for 6-8 months in 2010-2011 until ATT reported me and forced me to stop using it:

back to the shine:

until I finally joined the smartphone fam officially in 2013:

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 11:34

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My first one I got back in 7th grade in 2010 was an LG Rumor Touch.

Terrible phone. I went through three of the stupid things and every one of them fell apart and got to the point where when you slid the phone up to text, it would restart.

Then I got an LG Optimus G in 2012.

This is my favorite phone I’ve owned. Had two of them but only because I impaled one with a couch recliner (long story.) Still have it as a backup in case I break my current iPhone 6. Still works like brand new almost 3 years later.

Jcarr > BigBlock440 09/15/2015 at 11:35

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I got this my senior year of college. The ability to record phone calls with it was so much fun when my roommates would drunk dial me.

My citroen won't start > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 11:38

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I was 12 and had almost no use for it whatsoever.

Justin Hughes > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 11:38

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This was a hand-me-down from my dad when I got my ham radio license in 1989. (Yes, I realize that’s before some of you were born - don’t remind me!) He made me a wire antenna (5-band trap dipole), strung it up in the back yard, and I was able to talk with people all over the world, long before cell phones and the internet made it routine.

Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2 > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 11:41

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This bad boy, I was 12. Not privileged, just a necessity because I went away to school and my mom wanted to talk to me.

and 100 more > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 11:41

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Kyocera 2119b “Party Animal”

McMike > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 11:41

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I believe this is my first one. It was 1995/1996, and it sat in my glove compartment most of the time.

It was a “flipphone” by definition, but the flip part just covered the keypad.

http://www.gsmarena.com/ericsson_gs_33…

Jcarr > My citroen won't start 09/15/2015 at 11:41

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Except as a lethal weapon if you threw it.

Jcarr > Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2 09/15/2015 at 11:42

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I sold a lot of those.

My hovercraft is full of eels > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 11:42

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Motorola M3888 in the summer of 2000. I only had it for a couple of weeks before I traded it in for an Ericsson T10

Brian, The Life of > Tripper 09/15/2015 at 11:47

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I had the same one! Got it at Costco when we went for toilet paper. Typical Costco story, LOL.

scoob > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 11:52

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LG Shine. I thought the sliding mirror-like screen was so cool.

Samsung Galaxy Exhibit. Learned how to do all my Android modding with this.

Huawei Ascend Mate 2. I have also modded the crap out of this.

Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again. > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 11:55

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3.2 Megapixels baby, read it and weep. It had the best camera phone on the market till the iphone 3g came out.

Agrajag > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 11:57

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I kept a tracfone in my car in case of emergencies but didn’t have a proper cell phone until last year. My brother, sick of not being able to reach me, gave me his old iphone 4. I use it to listen to music more than anything else.

Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again. > Urambo Tauro 09/15/2015 at 11:57

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My dad had one of those for his work.

B/Xmrrmvr > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 11:59

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Siemens A56... the days when I couldn’t get a signal on the LIRR...

BorkBorkBjork > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 12:02

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Can’t find the phone ( it’s around here somewhere), but here’s the manual.

Good old bag phone.

Jcarr > BorkBorkBjork 09/15/2015 at 12:03

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My dad had one of these in his car for a long time.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 12:06

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Found in a museum.

CaptDale - is secretly British > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 12:12

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My first phone. Had it as an emergency phone for my mom in case we had trouble riding our bikes to school. We refers to my sister and me.

atrombs > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 12:18

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I really liked my first cell phone.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 12:22

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In Chronological order: starting in 1998... I worked for a Bell-Atlantic Nynex Mobil (became Verizon) Dealer so I could sell myself the phone and back then they gave you commission on selling the phone and residuals on the plan so even as a broke college kid I could afford it.

schwartz > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 12:26

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Nokia 3310 on VoiceStream later T-Mobile.

Then moved to Verizon and had many phones. That was back in the days that if your phone broke or didn’t work well they would let you have the newest phone for no charge.

Motorola T720 first color flip phone

LG VX4400 first LG color flip phone

LG VX6000 first camera phone

Then I don’t remember the next several till I switched to Sprint and got the Sanyo phones while working for a 3rd party wireless vendor.

Sanyo SCP-5400

SCP-5500

SCP-9000

Palm Treo 650

Palm Treo 700

Palm Treo 750

Then also started carrying a Verizon LG VX-8600 which the OP also had with the Treo.

Eventually dropped both of those and had a Blackberry 8300.

Had that till I got the first gen iPhone.

Tried a Android phone out while having the iPhone but cannot remember the model for the life of me.

Then iPhone 3gS

iPhone 4

iPhone 4S

iPhone 5

Google Nexus 5

iPhone 6 Plus

Current: Samsung Note 5

pjhusa > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 12:27

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This (2011-2013)

My iPhone 5 (2013-2015)

My iPhone 6s (2015-)

I'm young.

schwartz > Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again. 09/15/2015 at 12:28

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Had one of those for a work phone, can confirm was an epic phone.

Jcarr > pjhusa 09/15/2015 at 12:29

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We all have to start somewhere

pjhusa > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 12:30

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Exactly. All on ATT btw

Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 12:42

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Nokia 5100-series

2000-01 BellSouth Mobility DCS/ 2001-03 Cricket.

Dropped on hard tile floors regularly while working as a pizza driver/manager. Never broke.

Nokia 3600-series

2003-05 Cingular

Dropped regularly, made my headsets go nuts at work, and weighed almost as much as the 5100. But it had Snake and I could text. But I had to delete texts daily because it could only store 100 or so.

Broke at age 2+ one day.

Motorola V220:

Cingular/ATT 2005-06

First ever camera phone. I had bowling on this one, too. My sister had an identical one and I often went to work with hers in my pocket.

Motorola V300

ATT 2006-07.

When the V220 broke one afternoon, I needed a phone. My friend at work had this one in her car and it wasn’t being used. $30 later, I had a new phone. Thank goodness for early SIM cards.

Motorola Krzr:

ATT 2007-08

My first ever phone with Bluetooth and an SD card. Used it while walking to work. I had a pair of MotoRokr headphones that blasted my tunes.

Samsung Blackjack II:

ATT 2008-09

First “smartphone,” and Windows phone. Not bad but a real data hog when ATT had 1MB and 2 MB data plans.

Blackberry 8330 Curve:

Sprint 2009-11

I started working for Sprint so I got one of these for like $49 with free unlimited everything. The job sucked and when I got fired I wound up with a $49 unlimited plan so they could keep my business. This thing was so rugged. I once dropped it off a third floor balcony while in its cheap vinyl sleeve and there was only a little scratch on the plastic.

Samsung Nexus S

Sprint 2011-13.

This thing was a piece of fucking garbage. Bad signal, bad battery life, and fragile. Had two warranty replacements with this POS. Still didn’t fix core issues.

iPhone 5:

Sprint 2013:

First iOS phone. Not bad. But Sprint took away my legacy plan when I upgraded so the bill doubled.

Samsung Galaxy S3:

T-Mobile 2013-14

Wife changed jobs and got a discounted plan with T-mobile. Traded in the iPhones for SamsungI started to work for the same company. All in all a decent Android phone.

Iphone 5C:

Verizon 2014-present

It does everything I need it to do. Went to Verizon because T-mobile stopped working in our house around May of ‘14. This happened with Sprint a year before. Network expansion couldn’t keep up with new customers. It works everywhere.

Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again. > schwartz 09/15/2015 at 12:43

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The battery was the only thing that I didn’t love on that phone, and that is only because I talked and texted a TON on it every day. It still worked fine when I got my 3G, I just wanted a smart phone.

Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again. > Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again. 09/15/2015 at 12:45

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If we are doing full history I went Sony Ericsson k800i, iPhone 3G, iPhone 4S, and then my glorious HTC M8.

X37.9XXS > Tripper 09/15/2015 at 12:48

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Same phone. Have had the same number for 23 years

georgechristensen > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 13:09

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From 2005-2010 I had one of these, a Motorola Razr V3

This is the greatest phone ever made and every other opinion is wrong.

Then in 2010 I “upgraded” to a Motorola Defy like this

Well, it was durable by smartphone standards but that’s all it had going for it.

I wasn’t really happy with it so later that year I got myself a Droid 2

It worked fairly well by Lagdroid 2.2 standards, I kept it and flashed it with Android 4.04 later which did wonders for usability.

Finally in late 2013 I got myself a Motorola Moto G, it’s a really good budget smartphone, I doesn’t feel like a laggy piece of shit like its competitiors at the price range and I’m a big fan of the ergonomics, that dimple is really good in the hand.

I have been a bit of a Motorola loyalist all these yearsand I’ll probably get one of the new Moto X versions once they come out.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 13:27

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deekster_caddy > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 14:05

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Aw hell. I had one of these...

I got if from my dad who used to use it for his work. So yeah.

What was really cool about it is that it took the same exact battery as our VHS camcorder, so we always had a spare! (approximately this one)

Also - I still have the same cellphone number that I had when I got that bag phone!

Van Man, rocks the Man Van > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 15:14

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I still have my first cell phone (I got it when I was 10), a Samsung Intensity III

After having that for three years, I got an iPhone 5 hand-me-down, but the battery was literally about to explode (it was tested at an Apple Store).

After less than two weeks, I traded it in for an iPhone 6, which I have now.

Van Man, rocks the Man Van > Tripper 09/15/2015 at 15:15

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I always loved the Flyers carnivals! I never saw them give out a phone though.

Klaus Schmoll > Jcarr 09/15/2015 at 15:17

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Didn’t even remember what it was called besides the fact that it was a Motorola. Typed in “Motorla+blue” and it was the second picture. Got it in ‘99.

Had a similar MotoRAZR clone like your LG at around the same time, just mine was a BenQSiemens.

Klaus Schmoll > B/Xmrrmvr 09/15/2015 at 15:20

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I had one of these in the early naughts. Sturdy bastards. I used mine to open beers.

Tripper > Van Man, rocks the Man Van 09/15/2015 at 15:34

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I got it in one of those “mystery boxes” that you could buy for $20/$40 in the center of the stadium. Most had t-shirts, but some had signed memorabilia or other more valuable stuff. This was during their partnership with “Comcast cellular one” (AT&T), so a few of the boxes had phones/accessories with pre-paid phone plans.

Van Man, rocks the Man Van > Tripper 09/15/2015 at 16:29

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Nice! I remember getting a few of those.