How old were you when you got/bought your first mobile phone?

OmniShift · **Memory**: DDR3-1600 8GB 8-8-8-24

Sometimes I see kid of really young age who have rediculously expensive mobile phones. They dont have any use for it, besides showing off and being robbed by kids of just a few years older.

But thats not why I made this thread. I made it because Im curious when you got your first phone and whether you bough or got it from your parents.
Also, for the (upcoming) parents among us: at what age will you give your child his/her first mobile phone?

I bought my own mobile phone (a nokia 3410, which basically could only call and text) myself when I was about 13 years old.

eclap · 08-11-2011, 19:31 | posts: 18,382 | Location: Hampshire UK

I was 22

Little · 08-11-2011, 19:34 | posts: 807 | Location: PA

i was around 24 and still havent even touched a "smart" phone

OmniShift · 08-11-2011, 19:45 | posts: 312

Wow. Where I live, I was the very last in class that got a mobile phone. Maybe I made the poll a bit too inaccurate by age options.

TheHunter · 08-11-2011, 19:45 | posts: 13,439 | Location: √╥²

Quote:

Sometimes I see kid of really young age who have rediculously expensive mobile phones. They dont have any use for it, besides showing off and being robbed by kids of just a few years older.

agree, lately they're far to young for such "dangerous" stuff, we still don't know all possible negative side effects..

I was ~ 16 and had this crap SE T10

1.5yr later got me a N3310; wicked phone and it served me well for ~4years lol

mAX26 · 08-11-2011, 19:54 | posts: 36 | Location: India

I got my SE K750i when i was in the 8th grade

Pinocchio · 08-11-2011, 19:59 | posts: 151 | Location: sweden

I was 40

EspHack · 08-11-2011, 20:04 | posts: 1,547

i've never bought a phone

but the first one was about 5 years ago, the moto rokr Z6, yea it was expensive in his time but was my mom choice

Tat3 · **Memory**: 3*2Gb 8-8-8-20 @ 1680MHz

I think I was 13 when I bought Nokia 3330 with my own money (earned with work) and I had to pay my own phone bills.

anticupidon · 08-11-2011, 22:05 | posts: 1,663 | Location: far,far from home

was 23

dcx_badass · 08-12-2011, 01:26 | posts: 9,541 | Location: Leeds [UK]

I voted 10 then realised I was 11. Anyway I bought it myself in March 2001. I was the 3rd in my class to get one, and only 5 of us had them by the end of the school year. I got it because I was starting to go into town at the weekend and from that September would be at secondary school so travelling on buses/trains.

The other reason was I won £50 and my phone was only £40. IT was a trium mars, and I got it because it looked nice, the two others with phones had trium galaxys, and I didn't want to be a nokia bitch like everyone else. And it had cool rubber skins for it and customisable cases. Also it had the internet unlike most phones at the time.

Although I never used the rubber skin as it made it stick to the inside of your pocket.

Norvekh · 08-12-2011, 02:43 | posts: 2,654 | Location: Ohio

I ended up with one when I was 15 or 16 and it was some old Nokia bar phone. To be fair, I rarely use even my Incredible much for calling or texting. I find it's mostly useful as a mobile tool than as an actual communications device.

EspHack · 08-12-2011, 03:46 | posts: 1,547

@dcx_badass did you say that thing had INTERNET?!

Doug · 08-12-2011, 04:22 | posts: 4,795 | Location: UK

Loved this phone, think I was 11. The picture doesn't show it but it had a super intense blue backlight which made me love it

and interchangeable fascias

vbetts · 08-12-2011, 04:41 | posts: 10,224 | Location: Toledo Ohio

18, when I got a job. It was a Blackberry Curve 8330, not a bad phone but not good for entertainment at all.

FULMTL · 08-12-2011, 08:36 | posts: 6,146 | Location: Portland, Oregon

When I started working at 18yrs old, I got my own phone with Virgin Mobile. Haven't changed carriers since.
I remember before I had a phone I had a business card I would write numbers on hahaha.

Gripen90 · 08-12-2011, 10:50 | posts: 680 | Location: Denmark

I got my first mobile phone Nokia 3210 after graduating college in 2000 (20 years old). Still to this date mobile phones and smart phones interest me less than soap !. I'd rather spend $400-$500 on a pc, gfx etc than one of those annoying gadgets.

Svein_Skogen · 08-12-2011, 11:07 | posts: 1,284 | Location: Skedsmokorset, Norway

I was 14, working beside school, and that was a huge-ish 1989 Motorola I could have used for hammering nails.

//Svein

Veteran · 08-12-2011, 11:42 | posts: 7,382 | Location: United kingdom

Had a mobile phone in 1994 when it was strictly contract only...orange...P4 i had.

TeX_UK · 08-12-2011, 12:07 | posts: 1,505 | Location: Geordie Land

I bought my first mobile phone a Motorola DynaTAC 8500x back in 1990 & still have it

heres a couple of pictures I just took so you can have a laugh

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naike · 08-12-2011, 13:13 | posts: 1,955

My first phone I got was a Bosch

I was really young back then, then I started getting used phones from my relatives that still were in good condition, I got like 2 new phones each year lol.
Then at 11 or so I got the first new phone I remember, 3510 it was one of the first phones with polyphonic ringtones, was so cool back then

I used to play space impact like a mad man.

kanej2007 · 08-12-2011, 14:46 | posts: 5,700 | Location: Dubai, UAE / London, UK

I wasn't allowed a phone until I was 16!

My first phone was a Nokia 6210.

Svein_Skogen · 08-12-2011, 15:30 | posts: 1,284 | Location: Skedsmokorset, Norway

That startac looks frighteningly familiar. Like I said: You could hammer nails with it.

Talk about "blunt instrument"

//Svein

fxmercenary · 08-12-2011, 18:32 | posts: 383 | Location: Sarasota, FL

Quote:

Originally Posted by OmniShift

Wow. Where I live, I was the very last in class that got a mobile phone. Maybe I made the poll a bit too inaccurate by age options.

You are assuming everyone was a teenager when Cell Phones got popular. A better question would be, what year did you get your first cell phone.

nhlkoho · 08-12-2011, 18:35 | posts: 3,859 | Location: Washington DC

My dad bought me my first phone when I started driving at 16. A Motorola Star-Tac.

I first bought my own when I was 18