Because of Peepeep’s Poll, How Old Is Your Phone, I thought this would be a fun thread. I also wanted to make this separate as not to clutter up the Poll thread.
I will start, my first cell phone was a Motorola on VoiceStream before T-Mobile bought them out. Must have been around 1999 or 2000.
You probably no longer have your first cell phone. The fun part for me was searching the internet for the picture above.
My actual phone. Turns out I’ve only had three. 
Oh, yeah? Samsung SPH-A660:
Same. I wanna say that was…2004? xkcd would tend to agree. When the microphone eventually stopped working on that one, I went to a Samsung SPH-M320 in 2009:
I’m currently on #5.
My wife had that phone when we got married… Then it shot out of her pocket on a six flags rollercoaster and broke on the sidewalk.
I liked it. It was a tough little dude and a good size. I liked the next model I bought because it didn’t have that external antenna jutting out, and it had an outside screen, which was cool, but the plastic cover over that external screen portion wasn’t very durable and developed some cracks over time.
Ok, I will bite on this one…
I had a Car Installed Mobile Phone
Then something like this
Before starting the more streamlined devices
My folks had the ‘bag phone’ car phone. They also had a much older Nokia than I did.
Yea, I had a bag phone for a short period of time, then gave it away. 
it was big and clunky for me.
My first one was Nokia 6110 then this one 
and after that was iPhone 1 and stuck with them till today.
Oki CS-1 in late 1984. A mobile phone installed in my 1982 AMC Eagle 4x4 station wagon. Moved into my 1986 Toyota 4x4 pickup a year or so later. Lost when the Toyota was stolen in Sept. 1986 (I got the truck back 3 weeks later, but lots of contents was gone, including the phone).
This was my absolute favorite pre-smartphone phone. Motorola z9.
It had Bluetooth, took a memory card, and I could use it to Bluetooth songs to my car stereo. Limited touch screen capability.
After this, phone went smart, and I got my first and last iPhone (3gs). I switched to android a couple years later and never looked back.
Oooops, I meant this one 
. I had it clipped on my belt and so many times had it fly across the floor when I would walk through narrow doorways 
Those things were indestructible. Lol
Love it, those are still around in the non smart phone stores. I think that individuals are starting to go back to these phones.
You got that right
My dad ran his over with his truck. Worked for another year after that. Lol
Good walk down memory lane.
It’s amazing how cellphones were big, then got tiny and then are getting big again.
My first was a Nokia in 1995. Phone calls seemed expensive back then. Now I can call to Hawaii to check on the weather report without a cost at all.
Just before smartphones, I bought quite a few cellphones on eBay.
Motorola was my first smartphone, but eventually went Samsung with the S4, S6, S8, S10e, S21, and then the s24.
Some other phones I looked at pre-1995…
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Yeah, the first smartphone I carried was supplied by an employer and was a BlackBerry Bold 9650 that was eventually replaced by an iPhone 4. While I didn’t really like iOS, I liked the size of the device, so my first personal smartphone was a Samsung Galaxy S4 mini. When I had to change to something else after about 5 years (I wanted to switch plans with my provider but the phone was grandfathered to the existing plan), I used a comparison tool as part of my shopping and so moved to something larger (because it wasn’t Samsung, was a decent deal direct from the manufacturer, and came with another “free” phone, which I kept as a backup). The tool shows that I’ve now gone slightly smaller from that, and I imagine I’ll have to get something larger again at some point because of the manufacturing and market trends.
