Win: Sony Xperia P mobile phone!

Getting my first phone proved to me that my parents didnt favour my brother as he got the same first phone as me (though a little earlier). But I was sincerely happy, believed I was loved for the first time. That my parents actually care about me.

my first ‘mobile’ phone was the size and weight of a brick

It was like a house brick with its own postcode and an aerial that could control a space probe. I was delighted with the variety of neo classical ringtones on offer and decided to get a different colour cover to give it its own ‘unique’ look.

OMG OMG I was sooooo excited and it was like a brick !!!!

My 1st mobile in 1991 was a thing to behold…well hold with both hands actually!

It made communicating with friends much easier.

my first ever mobile phone was a sagem my-x6, i was very excited about it because it was one of the earliest camera phones

my first mobile was a bt cellnet so big u had 2 wear a jacket in the summer

I had just got together with my boyfriend and we went on the train together to Peterborough. It was about a week or so before christmas so very busy. We went and bought my phone and then stopped for a meal.Just burger and fries but it was lovely and surprisingly romantic.

Years ago was like the best invention ever

First mobile phone was the freedom to call from where ever and when ever

I first had a mobile the size of a brick as part of my job. Text messaging was a few years away. The sim card was the size of a credit card, the aerial was retractable but nonetheless still nearly a whole foot long. I needed a ‘sensible’ sized handbag just to accomodate it and it’s not insignificant weight. I remember how exciting it was when it would ring, my daughter and I were in awe. I’m pretty sure it is a museum piece now. I kept it just to remind us how far we’ve come.

my first mobile was a simens. Brilliant! I still keep it.

I was so excited when I got my first nokia 3310 it was just like a tamagotchi you could`nt put it down I even customised it with smiley faces housing cover ahh fond memories of the old days.

My first mobile phone was an extremely large black one, much like a TV remote control. I thought it was great. I wish I’d kept it, it must be a valuable collectors item now.

My first mobile phone was a Samsung SGH-E250, it seemed like it had everything in 2007, but compared to the phones of today it seems like it had very little!

I remember me and friend going together to get the same phone. Our numbers were the same apart from the last number. That was 13 years ago now and we both still have the same number – I have even had some calls for her, although she promises that she has never used my number by accident!!!!

I was very reluctant to get my first mobile, insisting it would be for emergencies only, but it didnt take long for me to get used to having it. I still used it sparingly for emergencies but enjoyed playing the games on it and sending and receiving the latest joke that was going round.

I bought a little grey Nokia for myself about 15 years ago. Paid £99 and it lasted for years. Still have the same SIM card in use as it’s a pay what I use contract that they no longer offer and it’s a great back up number.

I got my first mobile in 1999 a Motorola C520 and i thought i was the bees knee’s! Looking back i am embarrased! It was huge and the ariel was a good inch long! I walked around with it as proud as punch and i will even admit to pretending to be talking to someone to show off! O the shame!

My first mobile was forced upon me by my parents to they could keep track of me. It was the size of a brick and had Snake on it.

What I remember most about getting my firstt mobile is amazement as how suddenly everyone had a mobile phone. I spent a year in the USA and when I left the UK no one had one as they were too expensive then contracts were introduced and they became affordable, so I got one asvwell

Mine was a nokia 3310 when i was about 13. I loved it! I used to constantly play snake and when i put credit on it used to go in an instant as my texts were 25p!

I got my 1st mobile on cotract around 1995 and basically was paying £40 a month to make one or two calls per month as the calls were that expensive.
I did save money on a Gym membership as I was carrying about a half brick each day and I also didnt need to worry about mobile insurance as you could see the phone from space.

my first mobil was a nokia (brick)it was like going into a new world being able to contact people every were much fun was had the best infention of the 20th century by far just look
what you can do with a mobil now ,play games ,take photos ,comput,and very good for safty reasons in this day and age, and avalable to everybody

fantastic sharpness and colour clarity

Just the best feeling ever.

I’ve never had a mobile phone before so winning the Sony Xperia P will be unimaginably exciting!

I remember getting my fist phone on one 2 one contract with free calls all weekend and phoning everyone i knew and telling them that i had a new phone with free weekend calls all weekend!!!

First mobile phone I had was the size of a House brick and it kept losing connection it drove me mad…also people would not phone me as they were scared at the cost of calls,how things have moved on.

My first mobile was like a house brick. Texting was a bizarre first experience

Bought a car – the phone was in it

I had my first mobile phone in 1996, very exciting at the time just been able not to use a phone box was great.

My first mobile phone was very basic and I purchased it for the carephone warehouse I still have it and it’s still working if a little worse for wear!

My first mobile was back in 1995 and heck it was a brick, but made me feel like I was someone, sad I know, was great getting to know all the new features it had,

I was about 11, maybe younger. I got a phone of a family friend for £5, it was a huge brick one I think it was on Orange and it had one of those aerials you had to pull out to use. I remember not having anyone to call at the time so kept ringing home asking when coronation street starts! haha

Got my first one back in 1999. The proverbial ‘brick’, stuffed in my pocket I looked like I was always pleased to see you!. It could make/receive calls, text and that was about it! All that was needed really, back when life was simple.

Not many features!

First phone-half a brick,calls only,single tone ringer.Back in the dark ages but ‘cool’ at the time !!!!!

My first mobile was when I was back in college in the 90′s. Only a few people, maybe 4 or 5 had mobiles but we all had the same one. It was an old Ericsson with a large rubber antenna on top. It was in the gadget to have at the time but its one major flaw was that when you received a text message, it would not display the persons name, even if you had their number saved. You literally had to remember people’s numbers via the last three digits. Still, a very phone good none the less.

it was a brick !!!

that was an experience.only got a simple alcatel when first came to uni 13 years ago…thank god i knew those two simple buttons,,red and green.progressed since then..hehehe i can even text now..

its was the first Motorola that was out i called it a brick because its was heavy and similar it was my favourite gadget and fantastic that i could be anywhere and except calls or texts,a great invention and the best ever

this is a fab phone

My first phone was BIG, but texting for the first time, was so bloody cool, I couldn’t imagine life without SMS/MMS now, back then it was (and still is) cool, quite simply the best idea ever!

I’m pretty old, so you can imagine, my first mobile ……………..it was a brick !!!!!!

got my first mobile back in the 90′s, it was a nokia brick with a little aeriel, it only worked in certain parts of the country due to the poor coverage back then.

I got my first mobile phone in 1990, it was like a brick attached to a breeze block.

I got my first mobile phone back in 1996, when i was pregnant with my first child. I couldnt drive, and we worried about what ‘might’ happen if i was out on my own. He also had one ready for ‘the call’ and luckily when it happened, it wasnt a false alarm – i believe he got a big cheer when his mobile went off that day

in 2003 i was a single mum with a two year old and my sister was worried about me it was a very simple i cant remember what it was maybe a samsung-sagen? my son had got it and was playing with it i thought nothing of it but i got it back and there were some keys missing he had eaten them, i sifted through his poo for a couple of days and found them,, washed them and put them back on, phone battery lasted ages,

It was very big and very heavy and it was’nt really mobile because I kept leaving it in the car.

I hadn’t the foggiest clue – got talked into an expensive contract with a handset that looked like a nuclear fallout station – so many ominous buttons to press! Wised up quickly and have always done my research since!

I wasn’t too keen to have one but needed one to call home when delayed on the train. I had one of the first Pay as You Go phones. It was a Phillips phone and the size of a brick.

I was quite old when I had my first mobile. The camera was a separate item which you had to attach to the bottom. Being the technophobe that I am it took me ages to get used to it but I’m now pretty used to all the functions of the more modern, complicated phones.

I held out as long as I could but broke Christmas 1999, it was a great little Sony, smaller than my phone is now!

I had a motorola phone that was completely orange all over. My dad bought it for me for my 13th birthday. I took it to school to show off but other friends had the top Nokia and I looked a fool. Mine had cost about £70 and the Nokia was roughly £150. I went home in a mood but realised it was still a phone no matter what the cost was. I’d take it with me everywhere literally. One weekend I was in a friends car when it broke down roughly 6 miles from home – we had to walk, I got home and realised I didn’t have the mobile. I thought I’d dropped it somewhere. The following day we went back to the car and it was stuck on the back seat – I was so relieved!

I was about 11 and I begged my nan to let me have her Motorola. It was one of those old ones where you had the antenna bit on the top. The texting function was broken on it but I didn’t care. I just wanted the gadget!

Can’t remember my first phone. It was that long ago. It was a brick though!

Oh wow. I was 18, it was my birthday, and I went and bought the latest Ericsson. It had an aerial, took a sim card the size of a credit card, and needed to be charged for like a day before you could use it. I didn’t have it that long and the button needed to unlock it fell out. D’oh!

My first mobile phone was enormous but it felt brilliant using it as only a few people had them. Only problem was very few of my friends & family had one so didn’t have many calls on it.

The Firs,t like all my phones I inherit them from my husband who has an annual replacement.. I’m not complaining!!
But it would be very pleasant to win one for me!

My first mobile was so big that I had to carry a bag with me as it was too big to fit in a suit packet without it falling out if I moved!

I got mine 18yrs ago. It was a right old brick. I can remember my 1st bill was £160. But having a mobile back then was a novelty, and expensive. Ha ha..

i cant remember the make but i know it was as cheap and basic a phone as you could get! the amazing thing was i had that phone for years, while my friends were constantly getting new fancy phones i kept mine until it reached the stage i was embarrassingly behind technology wise!!

I got my first mobile when I was 13 and it was the size of a brick! I never really rang anyone on it but I loved playing snake on it.

i was 20yrs old, first mobile was a nokia 3310, with a monochrome display
i thought it was impressive, used to take out out of my pocket in the pub so people could see it
even though i was not receiving a call, very sad

I’ll never forget the first time I had to use one! I had just started a new job and was given a Nokia and a lease car. I had always avoided mobile phones before but it was required in my new role to have one. I travelled to Ross on Wye for a meeting in pouring rain and the motorway was getting flooded. The rain just kept coming and coming and when I tried to get home the motorway had been shut. I was 60 miles from home and decided to try the country roads via Hereford. The rain still kept coming and the roads were getting worse and worse. Eventually the water was so deep I could feel the car starting to lift and had to get out and make a run for it! I ended up soaking wet on a farm doorstep in the middle of absolute nowhere but the people were lovely and miraculously I had a signal! I rang work in Wolverhampton – my first mobile call! – and all they could say was its not raining here. I ended up staying over night with this lovely family until my husband finally got through the floodwater in a Landrover to rescue me! The situation was alarming but really quite hilarious and I will never forget the wartime spirit in that farmshouse that night with all the other people who were stranded there too! I spent a lot of time on the company mobile that weekend sorting out recovery etc.

I was the first out of my friends to get a mobile when they first came out when I was about 17, my dad brought it for me as a birthday present. It was a Nokia and I thought I was really cool.

I’m old enough to remember when mobiles first came out, they were the size of a large brick and weighed a ton. Was very exciting though, being able to call people without having to find a phone box!

I think it was the size of my bathroom!

My Mum bought me a pay as you go Sagem handset. I spent a fortune texting my then boyfriend in Australia. The funny thing was, texts were only about 20 words max so we had to be very inventive with our phrasing!

Ha ha, I remember my first brick of a nokia and spending hours playing snake! when Snake 2 came out it was ground breaking!

I was about 11 and I think my first phone a Nokia 3210. Looking back now, that phone lasted me a very long time and never broke despite how many times i dropped it (even once down the stairs). Phones are so much more fragile these days..

Mine was a Motorola and it had a little antenna on the top, it was big, but served a purpose

My first mobile was an Ericsson, they don’t even exist anymore after being taken over by Sony!

unbelievable

My 1st mobile resembled a brick but couldb perform the basics, well.

I spent what was probably a fortune on a Sony CMH-333 mars bar phone in 1992, when barely anybody owned or used a mobile phone. At the time I worked in a well-known toy factory which had a raised central office. In the office were phones and the potential for fun… Wait for the manager to step outside the office, call his phone, laugh when he goes back in to answer it and hang up just before he does. Very funny. Do this many times (well hidden of course) until the tears of laughter make it too difficult to see the office. Brilliant fun.
I can’t actually remember using it for anything else though!

I got my first mobile in 9th grade. I chose it merely because it looked good

I can’t remember much about it apart from it was a brick and took me forever to learn how to use it!

My first phone was the size of a brick when I got mine in the mid 90′s , I was the first and only one in college to have a mobile first!!

this will be my first mobile phone

My first mobile phone was a blue nokia 3310, I loved it, had saved up and bought the pay as you go option, got home and charged it, set it up and started chatting/texting friends while sorting out the house, went to the sink where the washing up was waiting, and ‘splosh’ my new phone was very wet, covered in fairy bubbles and very broken, I had owned it less than 24 hours …. absolutely gutted! Purchased another one the following month. I lived and learned and am now more careful with my phones!

Didn’t want one, no way was I having one, NO WAY! Then the (ex) wife gave me her old analogue one(haven’t a clue on the model sorry) which was on 02. Made good use of it mainly to make sure where the children where when they were younger.

I came to the world of mobile phone technology relatively late, mostly in protest at all those I encountered on my train commute home who would bellow loudly into their handsets, telling their wives that they were on the train and discussing what they would have for tea. I was much the same with Facebook, I like to join a trend almost when its over it would seem, but my first mobile phone was a Nokia, about 10 years ago now I suppose, and its fair to say my choice in mobiles has improved along the way, as all you could do on the first phone I had was phone someone, now I can practically run the world using my Samsung Galaxy S2, ah memories of dodgy buttons that would stick and annoying ringtones are flooding back.

I Felt like James Bond.

In-fact i bought a suit

a watch and a nice set of shoes to go with it

Shaken not stirred

Would love that same Feeling Again……….

It is going back so many years but I do remember I brought it from the local shopping mall and it was a bulky but basic Nokia. I was so proud of it at the time!

I remember the huge mobile phones of the 90′s and when my dad (a del boy wannabe) got a new one he gave me his cast off. It was so big it wouldn’t fit in my bag so it was just put away in a drawer and forgotten about. If i keep it long enough I’ll be able to take it on Antiques Roadshow.

I was about 14 and it was terrible. When you sent a text you couldn’t go the phonebook to click and add the number you were sending it to, so I had to carry around a bit of paper with everyone’s numbers on. To make matters worse, at that point in time you had to buy airtime with Vodafone, not great for a teenager with hardly any money

Being quite poor I was way behind when it came to getting my first mobile phone. It had no brand name and large pads that needed pressing down quite firmly. It was a heavy hand held gadget that most of my friends referred to as a brick! It was very embarrassing at the time!

It was a brick !!! It was a mobile phone but the weight of it made me NOT a mobile person !

Big and only mono display but, oh, so proud!

I remember getting my first phone in 1994 a brick of a phone with a pull out aerial. How times have changed

It was back in the mid ’90′s, and it was a huge brick Motorola with 2 lines of black and white text that took the whole sim card, not just the push out part. Weighed a ton, but when text messages first came out I thought it was the best thing ever invented!

I had just turned 18, got my first full time paypacket, so went to carphone warehouse and signed up to a contract for a Nokia 3210, and brought blue front and back covers. Still to this day the best looking phone i’ve ever had

I originally had a Motorola something-or-other but I switched to a Nokia 3210, which I had for ages.

I loved that phone. Changing covers? GIMME! Snake? GIMME! ‘Ringtone composer’ GIMME!!!!!!!

It was a Nokia 3310 and it had a lovely Tigger case! but someone stole it at school

It took me a while to learn how to text etc. but now I’m a whizz at it

Magical

Mu first mobile was the old Motarola brick, I was thrilled to receive it as a present from my then partner. Not so thrilling was the first bill as unknown to me my young son was sneaking it into his bedroom of an evening and ringing all his mates!

The first few days I couldn’t use is so right way…I had to learn how to use exactly:DDD

I was so excited getting my 1st mobile phone. it was a motorola and i loved it, sending my 1st text with too many spaces so the word was s t r e t c h e d,using 1 finger at a time.
it was quite big and i had a silly ringtone and text message tone.
ih what will we do if we didnt have a phone these days lol

It had to be a Nokia 3210, with changeable covers – so I had Harry Potter on mine x loved it x

thought i was at the cutting edge of technology with my virgin timeport phone, seems rather antiquated now!

My first mobile was a nokia, and all it you could do was text and phone on it. Oh no, you could play snake – I loved snake

I got my first mobile phone in 1998. It was a Motorola brick! There was a sales rep in the shopping centre where I lived and I must have walked past him about 5 times before I plucked up the courage to go over. Got it home and spent quite a long time choosing my ringtone!

I needed a wheelbarrow to carry my first phone. It was a Nokia and it was huge, I was so proud of it.

I was 18, it was a brick but I loved it!

My first mobile phone was in the mid 1990s – it was a nokia ‘banana’ phone – so called because it was sort of banana shaped with a slide out keyboard. I though it was the height of cool but only used it for ‘emergenices’ and would jump and panic if it ever rang.

My first mobile was a Nokia and was green but I cannot remember what model it was. It was the size of a small brick and had a very small black and white screen. Just calls, texts and the snake game was all it was capable of.. Such a difference to what phones can do today!

My first mobile was the size of a house brick, weighing a ton, & came with a shoulder bag. It was so long ago I have forgotten what make it was now. How things have moved on – thank goodness.

I was 21 and it was a brick, but I was beyond excited. Didn’t even know what text messaging was!

i loved getting out my nokia 3210 and showing it off to everyone..and playing snake!

My first phone was massive! It had a pull out ariel, and I rarely took it out with me because it was too big for most of my handbags!

I got my first phone when I was 11, starting high school. It was an old Nokia brick (I dropped it I don’t know how many times, and it still lived!) and I was seriously addicted to it. I remember thinking it (and I) was soooo cool, especially playing music (James Blunt’s ‘Angel’) and playing Snakes! It was totes amaze. It actually got stolen when I was on holiday! Otherwise I’m guessing it would still be going to this day! x

I brought an expensive mobile and it is still the best mobile for me.

I resisted getting a mobile for as long as possible but eventually caved in. The day I got it, it rang when I was on a packed train which made me jump out of my skin then, to make things worse I realised I had absolutely no idea how to answer the thing. These days, I rely on my mobile so much I don’t even have a landline . . .

I felt like a celebrity,i bought mine in the first few years that mobile phones were released.Heavy and poor reception and expensive but very useful.

loved it. could now talk for hours everywhere and anywhere.

My first mobile was the mighty Nokia 3210. Better call reception than my iPhone 3G any day!

It was back in 98 when I decided to get a mobile phone and ordered one via a known company (better to avoid negative publicity here) which never arrived in the post. After several complaints and letters I got a replacement… I ended up avoiding any internet or over-the-pbone order ever since

My first mobile phone was a BT Philips C12. I was around 11 years old, but felt that one step closer to adulthood since receiving it.
I ended up losing it within two weeks while playing hide and seek! But was scared to tell my parents for a long time incase they didn’t feel I was responsible to have another mobile phone.

my first mobile was a nice grey aqua type colour nokia with the brill screnn (ahem) i was addicted to playing that graphical genius which was snake and i squealed with delight when i sent my first ever text. best ever phone it never broke down, screen never went wonky and i swear i dropped it in water and it still worked.

My first experience was yes excited to own my very first mobile but very disappointed that it took up far too much space in my handbag !!

Mine was Nokia bought about 8 or 9 years ago – no camera, no internet, no games, it could hold 50 texts, had a temperamental signal… but I loved it! It completely transformed my social life. Will never forget it.

haha my first phone was a sony walkman, and i thought i was so cool using it.. lost it after a couple of weeks though! damn my 13 year old careless self…

My very first phone was a Vodafone MN1! I had it in school! Always had older phones as family couldn’t afford alot. I remember being jealous of my friends when they had Nokia’s coz they had Snake on their phone which was the ultimate game for break times! That was in the 90′s! Now I had an old LG phone that is scratched and battered! lol Things don’t change

On my 11th birthday, I became the very proud owner of a Philips savvy dB, a.k.a, the brick.
When I woke up the next morning and slipped my hand under my mattress, I remember thinking that the phone would not be there; It would merely have been a spectre that was conjured up by my hyperactive imagination.

Yet, to my pleasant surprise, I felt its soft casing meet my doubting hand.
Toying with its rounded rubber antenna, I referenced its physical dimensions with those from memory.
Once I had established that it was indeed the same object, I remember closing my eyes and thinking “I actually have a mobile phone; It wasn’t a dream.”

I still have that phone and often take it out of the drawer to hold it.
Even though most of the magic has left its worn shell, its presence in my life will always hold, a special place in my heart.

I was given a mobile as a present, but I was not interested until years later when smartphones became available.

It was a big clunky clamshell type and I had it in a case that hung on my waste. It was brilliant to know I always had a phone i=on me, to always be in touch.

I started to sell mobiles after seeing the Hutchnson Rabbit network and got a dealership with Cellnet which provided me with a Panasonic F1 about the size of half a brick which ws state of the art back then. It was almost impossible to sell mobiles back then, EVERYONE I know has told me at some point that they would never own a mobile and wouldn’t have any use for one. Better still, in 1998 we attended a dealer exhibition at the NEC where the UK head of vodaphone did a talk and told us that by the year 2000 there would be a million handsets in the UK which we all fell about laughing at. He was being pessimistic as it happened but since calls were 50p a minute and sales were very hard it didn’t seem that way to any of us back then.

I was driving my car and I heard someone talking and I thought someone had got into my car behind me — had to stop and find out what was happening — my son had changed the ring tone on my phone to fool me and it certainly workerd!

My first phone was a nokia 3210 which was mainly for snake then a phone second, but the first mobile phone i used was much more memorable it was my unckles car phone you had to drive to a location to get a signal and it sat next to the handbrake connected with a big curley telephone wire.

My mum bought me my first mobile phone for my birthday in 2001. It was a huge brick-like Bosch Orange Phone – I still have it. It’s practically a museum piece!

My first mobile was an Ericsonn and at that time not many people had mobiles. not very stylish at all, a horrible burgundy colour that was genuinely the size of a house brick. Very sturdy though as I dropped it from scaffolding and it survived.

I am a 65 year old pensioner and still do not own a mobile, but if I did it would be,
Very slim,
Very elegant,
Very light weight,
Very compact,
Very useful to own ,,,

I got my first mobile phone when I was studying at college, and I saved up tokens from Diet Coke to get one! It took me weeks and weeks to save up the tokens, as well as getting friends and family to give me theirs, but I eventually got it! It was MASSIVE and actually had an antenna, and it came with the Diet Coke ringtone on it (but one of those beeping ringtones, not the style of ringtone you get now.)

The funny thing is… the phone I have now is probably bigger than the brick I had back then!

picked it up from the shop in a hire truck. was helped by three members of staff to load it onto the van. took it home at a very slow speed due to the weight. At my destination a small rented crane help unload it before a JCB assisted me in taking the back off to insert the sim. Once this was done and the monolithic battery was charged i placed it onto and old skateboard and pushed it around the city centre. Being fashionable.

First mobile was a Motorola StarTac flip phone – Fantastic at the time but not very functional!

22 years ago! I think it was a motorola. I wouldnt leave it alone to charge in case it went on fire lol

Mine was an Ericcson built like a brick it broke when I hit a mugger with it he ended up in hospital pity about the phone though

it was in 1994 , i think it was a motorola. a 8inch x 3inch x 1inch brick. no games are anything fancy just a phone

My first phone i got when i was 15. It was a really old nokia 8810 or smth like that. Thats about 10 years ago , my dad bought it for me because every other kid in school had a phone apart from me . When i got it i felt so priviledged when every other kid had it for 2-3 years time. Now days kids get their phone at 6-7 yo. Sad imo..

my first phone was a philips brick. with a sceen no bigger than my thumb… i was 13 and finally deemed old enough by my mum. so she snuck the phone into my room the night of my birthday, set the ring tone to happy birthday and rang it to wake me up! best wake up ever.

mine was in the mid 90s & my Dad bought it for me as he insisted I needed one as I used to travel hundreds of miles every weekend & usually travelling across desolate moorlands during the night & early hours of the morning

It was the size and weight of a brick with a battery that lasted an hour for calls or 12 on standby, but gave so many opportunities and freedom from fixed lines it soon became an essential part of my life. Back in those days all you could do was make calls.

I was 14, it was a Motorola. £10 a month got you 15 minutes talk time! No such thing as SMS.

I’m old.

I found my first phone on the bus, obviously I was excited to the max and to add to it I was addicted to an online game/site… Habbo Hotel. Soooo upon finding it (a nokia 3310) I decided to spend as much of the money as possible getting online credits. Not long after I found I couldn’t purchase anymore which kinda ruined the moment for me and my mobile dream was over… all this before I reached my destination too

my first phone was a vodaphone, don’t even think it had a brand, it was awful, like a brick …but i could text! woohoo, i was down with the kids!

I was desperate for a mobile in 1997 and spent some of my student grant on it. It was enormous and after all that I was too embarrassed to take it anywhere with me!

My first phone was along with a lot of other people a Nokia 3310, great phone, had some great times playing snake!

Mine was an old slow steam-powered Sony, but I thought it was the bizzz.

The first mobile phone I had was a BT Cellnet Brick. The sim card was the size of a credit card, and it had three lines of text on it. The first thin I did with was drop it in the toilet because I wouldn’t stop playing with it, even though I could do pretty much nothing with it but text and call. I learnt the lesson of mobiles and toilets very very early….

my first phone was a sony and cost about £30 which i saved from my birthday money!

it had no games or internet or fancy ringtone but it was mine

I remember getting a Motorola. It had a single line lcd display and was enourmous but I loved it!

It was a Nokia handset, which was much bigger and bulkier than the phones of today, and you could only use it to make calls – I did not even know how to text back then!!!

My first mobile was a Nokia 3310. I was about 16 yrs old and I wanted it so badly because all of my friends had the mobile phones and decided I will work and save money for that I gave tuitions to young children and work part time and afetr hard work for months I manage to buought my first mobile phone, and that was like dream come true. I was very very happy and proud of myself.

It was a beam me up SCOTTY experience!!!

My first mobile phone…….Well, since mobile’s became a must have gadget, I’v always wanted one. But coming from a strict asian family didn’t help. As I was not allowed a mobile phone, due to some bizzare reasons! I remember crying for one, every night, begging for one, but my parents always said no!! I even decided to get one behind my parents back, but decided against it. All my friends aged 16 and over had mobiles and I didn’t. I felt so out of place. I’m sure people laughed at me too! So when exactly did I get my first mobile. I got it 4 years ago, as a wedding present from my husband! An LG mobile, which I loved dearly as it was my first ever mobile. And guess what……..I’v still got it!!

My first – and current – mobile is an old Nokia that my sister gave me. By old, I mean ancient! It doesn’t even have a camera let alone internet access! Would love to win a super-duper new mobile with all the bells and whistles. Fingers crossed that you pick me, PLEASE?! xx

Got my first mobile phone as a cast off from my boss – a first generation Nokia. Same evening we went out after work and someone knocked my bosses drink over onto his new phone which turned it into a paperweight. However he bought another one so I could keep the Nokia. I remember fondly playing snake on it.

I have no idea what make my first mobile was, I remember it was secondhand from a friend and that it was rubbish!!! I could never get any signal and calls cost something like a pound a minute!

My first mobile might have been a landline phone it was so big and heavy, it didn’t fit in my nice neat handbag, so I had to use a enormous granny bag. I wished I didn’t have one at all!

My brother had then recently split up with his wife, so he took her mobile phone off her and gave it me, approx 1997, it was a nokia basic one, only thing is i also had my ex sister in laws old number and was shocked when i had a phone call from an irate woman screaming at me about knocking her husband off, took a bit of persauding from me for her to understand: she had the right phone number but wrong person, hence brother got divorced, and the poor wife with the unfaithful husband ended up phoning me for advice. strange but very true.

I recall that the batteries did not last very long, it was big and heavy and was viewed with suspicion wherever I took it.

My first phone was the M301 on the Mercury one2one network. Costing £300 for the phone on the silver tariff £25 per month free weekend local calls to landline, 15p peak call, 5p off peak and free voice mail.

In a way call charges were cheaper back then but yet less people had phones those days.

You would of thought with so much people having mobiles now days call charges would be dirt cheap.

I await 4G which will revolutionise the way we use mobiles.

I got my first mobile phone when i was 15 as a Christmas presnt from my sister, it cost her about £15.

My first mobile phone would have been an old brick Nokia when I was about 13. I remember totally playing Snake on it while sitting on the field not doing PE at school. Loved it!

I was 11 when I got my first phone, it happened to be a Sony Ericsson, one with the trackball like movepad! My birthday fell on my yr 6 school trip, the first time I’d ever be away from home! My teacher surprised me with a box and said your parents asked me to give you this, and it was a phone, unfortunately, with all the happiness and shock, I dropped it in my cake, and a few days later as we were doing zip ropes, I smashed into the pad at the end of the wire and cracked the screen, I didn’t get a new phone till 13.

Living in India, it was such a great feeling having a mobile when very few people had

My first mobile was from work – so not good memories, it kept me on a leash. Although there was the one-up-man ship of having one…

The freedom I felt with that first mobi, but it was a motorola & was absolute crap.Gave it away 2 weeks later & got a nokia which was much better & easier menu.
But when I think back & compare all the mobis I’ve had & compare them 2 my current one a sony ericsson xperia arc they all seem like museum pieces. LOl

I was about 12 years old, it was a bright blue Nokia 3210…it was absolutely hideous but at the time I thought it was the best thing in the world! I only had it because my sister (who is 6 years older than me…) had one and I was adamant that I needed one too, but I was only allowed to turn it on in the event of an emergency, haha.

I got my first phone from Carphone Warehouse a long time ago! It was a Sony Ericsson T68i on a contract. Weird experience but I basically got to choose my phone number too! It was the first colour phone and quickly became envy of friends!

I can remember my Mum and Dad getting me one in the mid-90′s for my Birthday. Got a case with a belt clip on it and had it on display for all to see.

When when we had a digital package about 12 years ago it gave me my first free mobile phone. It took me almost 3 days to fathom it out & it almost went through the window on a number of occasions.

My first “mobile” was put into my car to save me having to stop at phone boxes to call clients in 1987. The first bill was over £400 for one month – nobody said anything about restricted use to save the bill before that!

My first mobile phone was a hand me down from my sister. It was an Alcatel One Touch. It was the size of a brick and it was light purple. I’m sure it still works today.

I had a very cheap Sony Analogue mobile phone and I was thrilled when my eighteen year old daughter phoned to tell me her A Level results.She had obtained her grades to study Optometry at Bradford University.Now a qualified Optician I am very proud and I still remember exactly where I was when I received that call.

I got my first phone in 2005. It was a Siemens CX70. Not the best phone. But it worked well as a phone.

Hubby bought me my first mobile phone, it was an LG and looking back it seems so basic compared to what smartphones can do nowadays but I was chuffed to bits with it!

I did not get my first mobile till I was 37! It was when I was pregnant and need to keep in touch in case of emergencies

My partner bought me my first mobile phone back in the 90,s because he was working away from home and he wanted me to be contactable at all times. I hated it at first because I felt like I was losing my freedom, but I know feel naked without it.

My first phone was a Nokia when I was about 25 years old. I got some coloured buttons to funk it up and used it that much to text that I wore them down

my first ‘mobile’ phone was Nokia 5110. i absolutely loved it and i still do. Very reliable.

My foirst mobile was a Nokia “BRICK”! Heavy, jet black, no bettery life, and a massive aerial!! Loved it!

I got one for christmas 1999. It was blue and all I can remember was that it was on vodafone.

My first mobile phone was a tiny pink Nokia saved up all my money only to find no network coverage where I lived!!

I can’t even remember the name of the phone i had, but i remember texting my husband every hour or so to tell him I love him. Awwww.

I can’t even remember which phone i had. But i was well excited to get one.

I got my first mobile phone when I was still at middle school and it was such a surprise when I received it as a birthday present because I really didn’t expect it from my parents since they didn’t agree at the beginning but obviously they had changed their mind since then.
My mobile phone helped getting in touch with friends but also with my family when I needed it

my first phone was so big and i had to carry around a battery pack, looking back its quite laughable that i thought i looked so cool hahahaha xx

I got my first mobile phone when I worked for Vodafone! That was SOME TIME AGO. I think it was a nokia 6200 and it was one of the first GSM phones. It didn’t do much other than play snake SMS and call, but it was all free because I worked for them!

It was a Nokia somrething or other – just used it for calls when i was away on training course. Must have been the days before we all yearned a certain brand

I’ve always had “hand me down” phones, so as my husbands contract has finished so i get it and put my pay as you go sim in it!! I’d love to win this competition coz then the prize would be my first ever new mobile phone!! Imagine when you run this competition again, and my answer would be – the phone I won on this competition, a Sony Xperia!! Now wouldn’t that be fab.

a nokia and I didn’t know how to stop it doing that predictive texting

My very first phone was a small pink flip-up phone, I can’t remember the brand as I was about 9 but I just about recap running around the house with it, addicted to taking pictures of my cats lol! I also remember being quite annoyed at the fact that it had not a single game!!
Over the years I have had several more, but they were all quite similar, the colours ranging from a hot pink to a dull, metallic grey. Currently, I have a BlackBerry Curve, but it is very problematic and freezes quite a lot! If I won the Xperia I would make great use of it – I love the features it has!!
Thank you, – Emily xx

The first ever mobile i bought was a motorola and it was like a brick but did what i wanted it to do as would be texting my then new boyfriend at the time, We would drive our parents mad with the constant beeps off our phone’s through texting each other and was worth every penny as 12 years on and 3 kids later we are due to get married on the 28th july )

I bought my first one about 15 years ago in a supermarket. They had some very basic nokia phones on offer, and I thought that would do me fine.

Mine too was a nokia and I remember ‘The Entertainer’ was my ringtone and every time anyone phoned me I would search round like a fool to find where this tune was coming from, idiot lol Would love this new Sony Experia it’s so stylish xx

I got my first brand new nokia (the rubbery indestructable one) for Christmas when I was 15, went to my friends house that evening, got a little bit tipsy with my friends, stood on it and broke it, I’d only had it 8hours! My mum was SO angry at me, I was SO angry at me!! Utter fail, had to spend a year and a half with a cracked screen as punishment

My first mobile was a Phillips lol it was on orange was soooo big n heavy before that I had a pager. Pmsl

I was the last of all my friends to get a phone. I got my phone aged 16…everyone else had theirs from age 14. Then soon after getting it I accidentally placed the Motorola in a full glass of orange juice..better late than never I say x

Blimey mobiles didnt come out till i was cough cough yrs old, my first one was brough for me by my hubby it weighed a ton & filled most of my handbag, i think it took me a year to work out how to use it properly, but i was the only one in my family to have one…i felt sooooooooo posh hahahaha !!!

I was 12 and my first mobile was a sony erricson analog brick on bt cellnet lol old skoool or what

I was so excited to get my first mobile, and really excited every time someone called or texted me. The phone was quite basic and there was no surfing the net or great photos but it amazing just to be able to speak to people wherever i was

I got my first phone about 13/14 years ago, Not everyone had them then so nobody really understood why I wanted one so much, so my brother lent me the money to get it. I was so happy but when I think back it was hugh. xx

My first ever phone was a Phillips phone and it didn’t do anything modern – I was in my 20′s at the time. All it did was text and it took ages to read the text as it scrolled along on one line, it didn’t have any symbols to use for SMS. I don’t even think they knew about SMS.

My first mobile phone was so long ago,early 90′s, I can’t remember what it was, I do remember barely using it as it was so expensive to call anyone!

My first mobile was a Bosch com 509 by my nan for my birthday bought from Littlewoods. I loved it but it cost me a fortune in topups back then in 1998. I got it only weeks after launch and it served me well for many years until I got my Nokia 3310. It had no games, no custom ringtones or anything all it was for was texting and calling. I was 18 when I got it haha! It was my 18th birthday pressie!

My first mobile handset was a hand-me-down from my daughter! Reckon it’s mums turn for the latest techno gadget so that I can make her weljel x

My first phone was the Nokia 8110 or banana phone in 1994. Every time I watch The Matrix it brings back memories.

my first phone was a nokia! i could only use it in emergencies!

I saved up for ages to get my first phone ( i didn’t get much pocket money) I was 13 and it was a nokia pay as you go brick lol

omg i had one of the first phones ever it was bigger than a brick with a huge arial, this was back in the late 80s (proves how old im getting)there was no such thing as ring tones or text let alone any screen or internet,and of course i was thourght i was the bees knees

I was 16 when I got my first mobile in1991… Not many people had them back then…it was a brick lol but I thought I was the bees knees..

well what can i say it wasnt a patch on phones these days
size and weight of a house brick with a huge antenna.
but hey i had the freedom to call and text people when i wanted and felt great

My very first phone was a Motorola, I forget which model it was around 18 years ago, back in the days before text messaging! It made and received calls, sometimes as signal was iffy back then. My Mum on the other hand had one of those huge mobile phones, one of the first ones ever out! It was mahoosive.

My first phone was a nokia- i was maybe 14 when i got it and i was on the top of the world lol:-)

I got my first mobile back in the early 90′s. Can’t remember the make of the phone, but I do remember that you could get it in black, fluorescent green or fluorescent orange colours – I went for the rather tasty orange colour! lol! It was the size of a brick, and had a large, black aerial sticking out of the top of it. Oh, and there was no texting back then. We used the mobiles just for phone calls!

My first mobile phone was a brick like Nokia – one of the first mobiles – known to begin with as ‘car phones’. It was bought for me in the late 80′s by my parents for my safety whilst out in the car alone! I still have the phone tucked away in a draw, it has sentimental value and my 9 year old daughter is amazed at how big it is!

The very first mobile phone I got was an alcatel & I felt like it was the best thing ever I had a case with it that attached to my belt & on a rare night out I went to the toilet & the next thing I knew my mobile fell into the toilet & never worked after that I was so gutted.

My first mobile was about 14 years ago and it was basicly a strange shaped blue brick brought from argos, at the time I thought it was the best thing Since sliced bread!

I was 16 and it was a brick,pretty sure it was a motorola it had a stand in charger that didnt work properly after only a couple of months and you had to do a mad balancing act with it for it to connect to the pins hahahaha

My first phone was the size of a brick but at the time i loved it.

At the age of 56 I’ve just got my first ‘smart phone’…a Samsung Galaxy Ace. Talk about smart phone, this phone is far smarter than I am…! I opened the box, took it out, then hadn’t a clue what to do next. We have the technology but we don’t know what to do with it!!!! Insert SIM…but where…which way round, face up, face down, where’s the idiot guide????? I had to wait for my 11 year old Grandson, Bradley, to come round & do it for me, & he sorted me out & even got my emails up & running. He’s one smart Grandson…thank goodness….Phew…..!!!

I was about 13, and it was a bt one! I begged my parents for one as my best mate had one, and was over the moon! It was the only time I ever felt cool as a teenager!

My kids said i go on like i’m on the enterprise whan i get a new phone,
Sometimes i think the way these phones are developing i will be able to beam me up scotty!! I have to sit down and go through the whole book and make sure i can use all the features!!
I love when my new phone rings so i can take it out in public and show off! lol. But i’m the same with my first and my last phone, always a pleasure to open the box and get started xx

Nokia 3210 about a million year after everyone else I knew got one! Fab feeling )

A nokia phone and it was my daughter’s cast off, still know how to work it and it was a simple phone that was quite limited in what it could do lol.

i was about 30 never thought i needed one before that now i can not live with out my mobile

My first mobile was from a supermarket when I was in my late teens on pay as you go. It was an LG and actually was a really cool and simple looking phone but it doesn’t compare to those you get now! Think my favourite thing about it was being able to play snake and texting my friends but then it was limited to what it could do so happy to have more modern technical phones!

Oh I remember back in 92 chrissie present Nokia moby ,well it took me an age to learn how to use it but it made me feel right important and one of the crowd. Boy how times have changed

I loved my first mobile it was a Nokia and didn’t want to b without it, then my little sister put it down the loo, I was So so upset, and now it’s my little one that gets the new phone. It must b time for mummy to have a new mobile. Fingers and toes crossed. X

My brother bought me mine when I was in my early teens as he was fed up of me stealing his! It was a good experience – cant believe how they’ve changed since my original Nokia brick I was so proud of!

Oh geezzzzz!! it was very long time ago, but i can still remember my first phone, it was samsung SGH-A800, flip-up phone, i was so exited opening the red box (virgin mobile) and seing this cute shiny gadget lol. I used it for a long time unfortunately theres no fancy APPS those days Me and my hubby bought exactly the same phone for xmas gifts, unfortunately i accidentally washed his phone, i forgot to check the pocket ooopppss!

I was so excited, it was a Nokia that you could change covers on, the only problem was, at the time no one else had a mobile phone and I didn’t know who to ring!!!

My first phone i bought was over 20 years a go it was over £200 to buy and cost me £35 a month, no free minutes,texts,camera or anything i think it was a motorola .I was young and did not no anyone that had a mobile, i used to put it on the table when i went out so the girls could see it,it was a girl puller then!.But the best thing i remember was that you got 10 seconds free so i used to phone home and tell my mum to put the kettle on. loved that phone!..

i had my first mobile wen i was about 15,it was a motorola it was huge and had a massive antana that u had 2pull outa the top of it haha,felt like del boy outa only fools and horses :0)

My first phone was a motorola 8500.. Was the size of a house brick.. but was very reliable

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Was only a phone didn’t do games or photos or any such nice things like that.. was a plain old phone

Ok so we are talking old school right now! My first mobile was Nokia 5110! Those were the days where you got hooked to a standard game of snakes haha! Competitions for the best score with my mum were wild lol! You could even buy front cover cases from poundland so I’d have a different colour everyday! Memories aye!! Xx

my first phone was a bt cellnet from car phone warehouse very simple & basic just made calls & sent texts how things have come along way now i remember one sales guy when the first camera phone came out with 1.2 m saying they wont get much smaller than this ( half the size of a brick )now oh how wrong was he

Mine was a Phillips PAYG 13 years ago. It cost £79.99 which I thought was a fortune. Bought to keep in my car and for emergencies only !!

I still have my first mobile phone,it is a phillips and is as heavy as a brick,the battery comes out of the phone to charge,and it has a solid arial sticking out of the top,and there wasn’t many people who had a mobile phone so you didn’t have many people to call,what a difference 20 odd years make!!!!!!!

Paying 35 a month just for connection about 200 for the phone and calls and texts were all extra lol

i cant remember what it was, but i got it in 1999 when we was expecting our first child. it was very basic

My older sister was the first one of us to get their own “mobile” phone, but i use the term loosely as I recall it having a HUGE battery case which the phone wast attached to and rested on, It was probably bigger and heavier than most modern handbags!!!

My first phone was a Motorola graphite. In terms of my sisters, it was quite petite but still a brick of a phone!! I remember that the sim card was as big as a credit card and slotted in the back, and the game of the moment was obviously snake!!!

MY FIRST PHONE WAS A SONY AND I LOVED IT USE TO TAKE IT EVERYWHERE AND SHOW IT OFF EVEN THOUGH I HARDLY HAD CREDIT I FINALLY THOUGHT I WAS LIKED EVERYONE ELSE I USE TO LOVE THE SNAKE GAME ON IT WAS WICKED I FELT I FINALLY FITTED IN LOL X

I remember my first mobile phone was a Sony Ericsson and it was the size and shape of a brick. It was black and dark blue and had monophonic ringtones, you know – the really pitchy and annoying ones?! But I was still proud as anything and trying out all the ringtones. Why did we do that by the way?? We seemed to be fascinated by ringtones back then.
Anyway I must of been about 14 years old and felt so grown up having my very own mobile phone. I was so chuffed and was really grateful to get it for my birthday. I think nowadays kids are getting phones earlier and earlier and don’t really appreciate them as much as we – the 80′s and 90′s batch – did.

I felt amazing owning my first mobile. Not only could you talk to ur mates outside ur house you could text them and no one would no what u was saying. loved the new experence.

“Nokia 402 Was My First Phone Back In The Day.. I Was The Envy Of All My Friends With A Massive 30 Ringtones & Different Facia Every Week (From The £1 Shop) Plus A Whopping 5 Day Battery Life.. If It Got Dropped It Would Bounce With No Damage.. Plus Had The Best Game Ever Bar Tetris.. Snake!! Who Said Technology Has Moved On”

I was 10 I think and It was a BT Cellnet. I was really excited about it and even took it to school to show it off =) It was a mobile after all, wasn’t it. Looking back now and how technology has developed my first mobile was a brick… I appreciate these modern smartphones they are awesome!

Not sure on my first phone..but it is pretty similar to my current one…an antique!

I was in hospital and the public phone didn’t work so my sister bought me a mobile phone so I could phone when I needed a chat.

Where’s me keys where’s me phone where’s me keys where’s me phone where’s me keys where’s me phone where’s me keys where’s me phone where’s me keys where’s me phone.

My first phone was a Panasonic phone it was a flip one and it was soo small I thought it looked so nice and still have it I took such old pictures with it Loved that phone

My first Mobile Phone was shiny and red, I wanted a black one but he bought me the red one instead!

my first mobile phone was one my daughter handed down to me in an attempt to bring me up to date with technology well i must say it worked i can now make calls and text (how impressed i am with myself lol) i would love to win this phone though so that i can get even more update and trendy lol. it might take me a few years to work out how to use it though haha, )

I was 16 and everyone at school had had a phone for years and I was ridiculously excited when my Dad said I could have a Nokia 3310

Can’t remember what it was – probably a Motorola and the size of half a brick but boy did I feel sophisticated and with it!

My first mobile was a Nokia 3210, bought it myself and thought it was the best thing in the world! Getting pixelated pictures on it was a dream….

I got my 1st phone a week after my wedding in June 1996. It was a Nokia, 1 ov the 1st bricks. It was kept in the car and only used for emergencies. The wk b4 my wedding, the car engine blew up on the motorway. It cost us a £1000 to repair,and we got it back the day ov the wedding. So instead ov goin abroad for our honeymoon, we spent a long wkend in Blackpool. We only ever used that phone once.

My first mobile was small and blue with a tiny screen. Was so excited.

A Nokia 101. I was scared to use it because the charges were so high. I would only take incoming calls (I’m not even sure if they had SMS in those days). You had to pull the antennae up and when it rang it lit up like a christmas tree. They’ve come on a litte bit since then.

it was my sons cast off . as he got a new one for his birthday so he let me have his old one. i couldnt afford one of my own.

o.m.g i remember my first fone was like a house brick a motorola it was hidious big arial that had 2 put out an everythin it was awful haha i used 2 hide it in me pocket an if i was with friends an sum1 rang me i wudnt even answer coz of the shame used 2 pretend it wasnt me haha, obviously ended up getting a better phone as soon as i could lol i hope i win this phone as bin after 1 but it jus so expensive xxx

Big brick of a phone! should have kept it they seem to be collectable now.

wow we`re goin back some years! hahah, my first mobile was a samsung blue massive block thing, with a thick areial sticking out the top. it had 3 ringtones , a tiny black and white screen and i thought i was the bees knees, it was way back when t-mobile was called one 2 one still.i was telling my kids about my 1st phone recently and my youngest lookes amazed and then said in a shocked voice `wow, i didnt know telephones were even invented when you were young`! cheeky little……! haha

Due to the fact that I am so ancient and also worked for a company that produced mobiles I had a massive phone, which was charged via a briefcase, it had a battery time of about 10 minutes and an aerial the size of a broomhandle! It was fairly useless at the best of times, but made worse by the fact that I was seriously young, so this would have been about 1987 or something, and nobody else had one – so I had nobody to ring up!!!! Put me off phones for life, and to this day I still only have a really lame phone.

I was 23 when I got my first mobile it was a Nokia and it was huge. I was so scared I’d lose it I took it everywhere I went. It was an analogue mobile and the signal was never very good.

Treated myself with my first mobile on my 38.birthday in 2004….it showed me a kind of freedom and gave me a feeling of being alive and modern…..nowadays I own and use and abuse a smartphone….cannot live without it..;-)

It was 1979. I was 3 years old. It was a prototype made from 2 yogurt pots and a long piece of string. I called it mymobfone. 13 years later I upgraded to a Nokia. Cant say the reception was much better but at least I didnt get yogurt in my hair when making a call anymore….

my husband bought me my first mobile phone (Orange) when I was pregnant with my first child in 2005, and himself one so we could easily keep in contact, as I loved to walk a lot on the South Downs. Needless to say I felt a lot safer having a mobile phone.

My first phone was the same one they used in The Matrix Film – with the sliding cover! Had the ringtone set as Mission Impossible – boy did I think I was the bees knees lol

My very first phone was a Nokia 3410. I’d wanted my own phone for ages but my parents thought I was too young and had no need for one. I remember it was my 12th birthday! I couldn’t put it down and I remember having it taken from me at school that day for playing on snake constantly.

it was in 1996. I can’t remember what make it was. I thought it was amazing! It could store 10 texts and you could do small emoticons! Loved it x

My first mobile must have been 18 years ago. It was massive and weighed a ton but it was great to have something different. Thank goodness technology is so fast with improvements

I wasn’t allowed my first mobile until I was 18 and got it for my birthday it was a RinGo , it was horrendous but I thought I was cool x

The first phone I really wanted was the nokia 8210, very very small and great looking couldn’t wait until my 18th birthday to come.

Crikey, it must have been back in the mid 1990s and it was a brick of Motorola that basically sent texts and made calls- full stop! I remember it was pretty expensive to use tho’, so we often still popped into a phone box if one was handy. Ooohh- remember phone boxes?! We only really had to so we could be contacted in an emergency when our children were small, so whoever went out took it with them. How different to the smart phones of today that we take everywhere!

I bought my first mobile phone about 15 years ago and it was the size of a brick, it was a Nokia, It was heavy and very robust but I loved it, I was the envy of all my friends
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I was 23 when I got my first phone (I`m 40 now) My then boyfriend bought it for me so we could get in touch with each other …he`s my husband now! It was a huge brick of a phone and lit up in the dark – no idea why!

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This was my first mobile! Flip down microphone, no screen so you didnt know if you had dialled correctly, no texting and no games but the battery life was excellent! Pity about the mobile reception coverage back in those days!

Wasn’t sure what I was doing and bought a cheap pay as you go phone just to be able to call home when I was away for work. Amazing how advanced they are now

I didn’t get my first mobile phone until I was 16 – it was on my 16th birthday – my mum was so excited to give it to me that she made me open it just after midnight (as soon as it became my birthday) I still have that phone to serve as a reminder of that day =) xx

cant remember the make but it was quite big and i took great pleasure in pulling it out and talking on a busy train,really anoying but the temptation was too great.

So long ago, and Nokias were like bricks! Could u still call th e operator and ask for Busby back then?

my first mobile phone was a nokia it it must have been about 12 years ago, was so heavy and really basic

It was a brick lol and despite wanting one for ages… I always forgot to take it out with me lol… but i loved it coz I could sit and play snake for hours lol

I was so proud of my first mobile phone, even though it was huge, heavy and never had a signal!

I can remember my first mobile was a tiny Sony thing with a pull out aerial, spring out arm for the mic, no screen & you could only make & receive calls. That was it. The end. But it’s the smallest phone I’ve ever owned – perfect!

I resisted owning a mobile until 2 years ago, then it took me ages to get use to hearing my ring tone and don’t even talk about predicted text. now I don’t know how I managed without it.

my first mobile was a basic nokia thought it was so high tech .

I tortured my Dad for months when I was 12 and he refused to get me one asking me who on earth I would want to call!! And on my 13th Birthday my wish came true when my aunt bought me a Sagem… my -something-X model :L I was absolutely thrilled… until I realised that the network didn’t work at all in my area!!! I only had reception when I was at my school 11 miles away!!! Big disapointment lol

I didn’t get a mobile phone until i was about 14. I remember first using my mums Big Mobile. It was the same size as a brick. It was so cool! I used to take it with me when i stayed at my friends house, And show off. My first phone was HUGE too, It did have a camera on it. But was only around £20.00 . . I Loved my new phone, and didn’t care it was as big as a book..

My first mobile phone was a Nokia, we’d just got married and we used the mobile phone all the time instead of having a landline. It was a good, faithful phone and lasted a couple of years and many happy phonecalls x

Well I was 17 when I had my first mobile…okay 17 might sound old but this was 13 years ago and it was a Bosch 509e and orange in colour. It was christmas day that I had the phone everyone else who had a phone had the HUGE nokias!!
I was also the first person in my village to actually own a mobile, it had I think 28 ring tones and all my mates used to play them contineuosly play them over…..ha. I loved my this phone and everyone thought it was the bees knees!!

My first phone was a Motorola brick. It was pre-Nokia so there were no games on it, when it was in my pocket it stuck out and I always tried to keep it hidden. However it got me on the road to upgrading mobiles so it’ll always have a place in my heart.

The thing was really heavy too. I couldn’t wear looser trousers, or I’d be showing the public a LOT more than just my pretty face.

The first mobile phone i or should i say we because i had to share with my husband was bought in or around 2000 and i cant remember how much it cost but it was very handy especially as we lived in a rural area at that time and gave security for breakdowns, i still have the same number from that phone and i have even been offered money for the number

i remember getting my very first mobile phone at 13. unfortunately i cannot remember the exact model it was, but it was an alcatel on vodafone. a flippy one! i remember being so very excited about having a mobile phone, how i could call and text friends and family. it took me forever to figure out the keypad correctly and i used to put ‘+’ as each space. i do remember the phone being really heavy and having a inch long antennae on it. i dont think i ever put it down!

My first phone was a Motorola flip, in about 1994! It had an aerial and everything! My best friend and I got them at the same time and were issued numbers just one digit apart, which was brilliant. I am still using mine to this day (the number that is, not the handset!). We couldn’t SMS in those old days! Liked and shared on Facebook x

My first phone was a Nokia 3310, and unlike the phones we use nowadays the battery lasted ages and I could not imagine that one day the phones will have so many functions and apps etc, I was more than satisfied with it and I may even say I miss it a bit

Was very excited at first but greatly disappointed when I could not even get a signal for more than one minute. There was not much chance of losing it either as it was absolutely HUGE !!

My husband’s first mobile phone was one of those bricks that never held it’s charge for long and was a nightmare to carry around! That was when everyone stared at you in the supermarket for talking on a phone whilst shopping – now it’s so common to talk and shop at the same time!! How far we’ve come!!!

My first ever mobile phone was the size of a brick and weighed a ton back in the nineties
It felt so good that i had a form of communication 24/7 not only because i like to talk but from a safety point of view.
And just incase someone needed to get hold of me in case of an emergency,thank goodness for the mobile phone now of course all singing and dancing with internet access when and whereever you are,amazeballs x

My 1st mobile was a big fat siemens mostrosity..I thought I was so cool as back in the 90s not everyone had a mobile…it was one of the 1st pay as you go,was on 121 network (now tmobile) and calls where so expensive that I couldnt even afford to use it!! lmao..it didnt even have sms..a silly bell animation popped up on screen when I got a call..it was so horrible!!!Hopr I win this comp..x

I always begged and begged my parents for a mobile phone so I could be like my older sister, as I am 4 years younger I was always told I was to young. To shut me up in the end my dad gave me his old purple work phone, It was even a flip phone (It had a peice of purple plastic covering the buttons) and it was about 7 inches long. It actually didn’t even work but none of my friends realised this and neither did I.

i remember it was a massive phone and i begged and begged for it. my little sister loved it cause the camera faced inwards so have got loads of kwl vids of her ten yrs ago as a baby.

When I was 12 my grandpa left me 50 pound in his will and my mum said I could have what ever I wanted so I got a mobile a nokia 6210 it was the beat thing ever I had 10 pound credit gave all my friends with mobiles my number and within 1 hour all my credit has gone best times ever xx

My first mobile was a Nokia 101 and it took half a day of waiting around in Dixons to get a contract sorted out for it!

A yellow motorola – resembling a brick. Seems huge compared to phones now!

My first phone was a nokia 3210 when i left home at 18. I got it from carphone warehouse and it was on the old BT Cellnet network!! I gave it to my mum when i got a new one and she promptly dropped it in the bath! RIP phone

My first phone was about 18 years ago and it was a mitsubishi!! I bought it in a shopping centre and i didnt have anyone to call for ages as no one else i knew had one!

It was 1999 and I was so excited that I kept texting mates, parents whomever actually had a mobile just to actually play with it. Must have driven them mad! Not to mention went through my credit in hours.

I was about 19 years old when I got my first mobile: it was a Bosch. It was so lovely! *_*

I couldn’t wait for someone to phone me on my new mobile. I got in touch with all my mates to give them my number

I was 18, in college when I first bought my own mobile phone. It was an Ericsson phone. Worked part-time to save up enough money just for the phone. I was ecstatic! But it didn’t last long. Two weeks later, I dropped my phone in the toilet bowl.

It was a siemens c25, it could do everthing, like calls and texts, big rubber buttons and indestructible

I was about to have my first son and my husband was going away to work in another country, twas scary but a godsend.

My first mobile phone was a blackberry (I know, very recent) and I spent the first day figuring out how to sign out of blackberry messenger! I laugh at myself for being so clueless but I’ve gotten very much used to it now.

I think I was around 13 when I got my first phone – it was a light blue Nokia 3310 and I was thrilled, thought it was the best xmas present ever and used to play snake for hours. Pretty sure I still have it somewhere

My first phone was a pink Motorola. I’d put off getting a mobile for years but finally caved in when my mum insisted she’d feel happier if I had one. Strangely, I chose a pink phone (I don’t like pink!) but wished I’d chosen red. It had a rubbish camera and the ringtone was so low, I could never hear it when it was in my bag. As phones go, it was a tough cookie. I dropped it loads of times and apart from a few scratches, it still worked. I still have it, tucked away in a drawer somewhere.

first phone i had was an ericcson weighed a ton never used it just had it clipped to my belt to look good , used to wear down the battery by constantly having the keyboard light up so people could see i had a phone in 96 ,ah to be 20 again lol

Bought one from a car boot sale when I was 9 got home to charge it up and it didnt work

I had my first phone aged around 10. It was a hand m down from my mum, and then from my sister. It was a massive black Nokia brick with an arial, but I was so proud of it, and I used to love playing Snake on it all the time. I always used to forget it and lose it and it was never topped up. We still have it somewhere, and I think it still works…

Mine was given to me as a gift. We’d been involved in a car accident and it made me a bit wary of being in the car, so the idea of the phone was to give me security/confidence, so that I could pull over and speak to hubby if I needed to.

My first mobile phone was like an army field-telephone and you had to shout to get the message across to the person on the other end. A piece of string and two old baked bean tins were almost as effective. I only had a couple of friends who had one as well, so I didn’t make or receive many calls … which was just as well because it was expensive! It might have been cumbersome but it was cutting edge and I thought I was über cool because I was lucky enough to have one.

My first phone was a Nokia given to me by my daughter on my 50th birthday. Took a while getting to grips with texts (predictive texts were a nightmare) and not ending a call mid conversation, but I loved it.

i WAS About 15,I brought a nokia 3300 i thi model number and,was so happy with it,One day i took it to the bathroom with me,Put it on top of the toilet….aND NEXT MIN ACCidently knocked it off and fell into toilet bowl.It was to late it was water damaged.

I was about 12 and the first in my school to have a mobile phone, I felt so out of place and embarrassed lol it was always hidden in my bag x

On the very first day I got my phone, I dropped it in the toilet! Had to get another one, I’d only had it a few hours.

My first mobile was a flip phone on the one2one network (Now T-mobile), it was a fantastic experience being able to talk for free and being able to communicate anywhere in london whilst the network was being extended across the country.

LOL,I WANTED TO THROW MY FIRST MOBILE PHONE OUT OF THE WINDOW AS I COULDNT GET THE LOCK OFF OF IT,MY TWO TEENAGE KIDS THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY

It was my first job and I brought a phone the size of a brick! Loved it though.

My first mobile phone was a Sagem. lol. Couldn’t do much but i loved it. : )

My first mobile phone was Nokia from MATRIX movie – I loved it. I felt like Neo:)

It was a Nokia… It was very heavy… I had to buy a new bag it was so heavy !!!!

My first ever phone was the size of a brick, and it felt like it too. Actually it was a Sony phone! To this day it’s sitting in the draw and it has no sell on value!

Still if I ever need to build a wall there is a ready made brick right there!

I had an old Philips brick which I loved and kept for years until it gave up for the ghost. I am sad to say that i can also remember the very first mobiles with the battery the size of a car battery.

My first mobile was a Nokia the size of a brick. Thank goodness mobiles are a bit less bulky now.

Me and my sister both saved up to buy our first phones as teenage’s mine was a Motorola what a brick can’t believe some1 stole it! But we are talking about nearly 15 yrs ago now, no wonder!

My first mobile was one of those huge ones with the battery the size of 2 bricks attached to it. Thought i was the bees knees carrying that around. Cringe now thinking about it!

My first phone was a silver nokia. It took about a minute to turn on and was very basic but… it had tetris – I was addicted! My boyfriend borrowed my phone once and missed his bus home because he “had a good score”

My first phone was defo a brick but more ‘high tech’ than others at the time.
My mum ordered it from QVC and I never seemed to have any money in it. Oh how now the times have changed!

my first mobile was the nokia 8110 “banana phone” felt cool like neo in matrix but sadly i couldnt run up walls or fly.

my first ‘mobile’ phone was the size and weight of a brick

My first mobile was a BT Cellnet phone kinda like this one http://blog.artesea.co.uk/images/philips_c12.png I wanted it because the text tone sounded like a superhero’s arrival lol. I thought I was great even though I was like 2 years behind everyone else when mobile phones were becoming a must have for everyone.

My first phone was a nokia cannot remember what number it was lol had so many but i know i could play snake i was the snek champion and the battery would last for a week and didn’t matter how many times i dropped it it still worked unlike the ones i have today thank god for insurnace.

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My first phone was a small Samsung Silver Flip phone which had a black and white screen and all you could do on it was send text or make phone calls…how did we survive without a camera,facebook or any Apps on our mobiles!

My first phone was a Nokia. I was so excited, like a child with a new toy. I loved playing snake on it

my first mobile was a lovely chunky blue Siemens thing, I loved it and soon wracked up quite a bill

it was a panasonic one but omg what a brick, and the screen was tiny

My first phone was a nokia 3310, I bought it soon after I started my first full-time job, I felt so grown up!

i was about 12 and my first mobile was an alcatel, it was a brick and took me about 6 months to figure out how to text!!!

My 1st mobile was a Motorola that took 4 AA batteries, no display and had a metal ariel that you had to pull up to get a signal. I paid £299 on Vodafone PAYT.

my first mobile was the size of a brick

I was 16 when I had my very first mobile phone,
I was shocked it was amazing and big, but I was not alone.
My dad said it was state of the art and one of a kind,
I could have my own personal space and he didn’t mind.
My big black bulky phone was amazing and made me feel great,
Looking back now wow what a state.
It did make me smile and was so clever I must say,
Thank you dad, It was amazing, a gift I can never repay.

thought I was the B’s and e’s with my new brick of a phone lol took up most of my bag space but loved being able to communicate with loved ones when I was out and about x

Matching motorola bricks ! one for me and one for my partner. Still got mine somewhere .. its got an aerial that you could hang your coat on.

my first phone was a brick ,my boyfriend brought it me,i cant rember the name of it tho,but i know it was big heavy thing,and i couldnt fit it in my handbag

I was 14 years old and it was a motorola, I had it for ages until it died

didn’t get one till a few years ago so didn’t have a old one but was certainly a lot bigger than the ones you get now they are not only phones but mini laptops

My first mobile was a bright orange colour I bought it for when me and the kids went camping during the summer holidays ‘just in case’. Must admit it very rarely got used thank goodness.

I got my first mobile at the age of 16 and OMG it was love at first sight.When I received it off my parents I couldn’t grab it off them quick enough.I opened the box and took it straight out dad said charge for 24 hrs and I thought not a chance haha so I turned it on and where do I start I didn’t know how to text or where every thing else was.So off I went in my room trying to text and the predicted text come on oh my didn’t know how to take it off and all the words was wrong I was so excited too but I could figure out to do things.Then I realised I had no credit and I couldn’t ask my parents they just bought my phone.So I tried for hrs to learn to text and I was really fast at it but then I realised had no friends to text but I do remember how grateful I was that my parents bought me my first mobile a Nokia can’t remember the make I’m talking 14 years ago but I loved it.How technology changes so quickly what a mobile a Xperia s just Amazing oh I do have friends to text now wooooo x

I bought my first mobile when I was 12, it was a Nokia 3210. I bought it off a friend and had to save up for months and months to get it. Loved that phone!

It was an old Nokia, and huge compared to todays compact phones. It also had the big antenna they all had in those days. Even so, I loved it at the time and thought I was really ‘grown up’ having a mobile phone, few of my friends had one at the time.

My first phone was my dad’s old hand-me-down! I didn’t mind though, I was just happy to have one, even if it was much older than all my friends! This was over 10 years ago when the big chunky Nokias were all the rage, I thought it was so cool. Miss playing snake on it!

I was so pleased when I got my first mobile phone, even though it was huge. I found that as I suffered from anxiety when going out, problem was solved. I could phone anyone anytime.

It was a Nokia brick about 14 years ago and I had no idea how to text!

Oh man, my first phone? A nokia no doubt. had nobody to call on it and nobody called me, had this awesome space shooter game on it though. Played on it more than i did my video games!

My boyfriend bought me my first brick! I wasn’t old enough and we scrimped and saved for it. He ran off with my best friend about a month later and I refused to give up my phone!

My first mobile phone was a hand me down one from my Dad, I can’t remember the brand but it was that long ago that it’s one of those “brick” phone. Yes you could kill someone if you threw that phone at them

I always swore I’d never get a mobile phone – carry a phone around – how ridiculous! But of course… I got one. Age of 21, and I’ve never been without one since.

I got my first mobile when I was 20 …and it was a brick! It was a Motorola and weighed a ton – especially by comparason to todays phones but I thought I was the bees knees walking round with this. Looking back, I probably looked a right pleb but ho hum, I thought I was cool. I remember having loads of fun ringing my friends whilst on the go – even when they were with me and the idea of sending text messages meant I never had to talk on the phone again …if I didn’t want to! lol
The phone I use today still only has basic calling/texting functions so i’d love a more technical one, then I could give my kids a run for their money!

Was like the best invention ever

My fist mobile was a big clucky one(one to one). I was amazed by it. A phone you could carry and looked it for hours not sure what to make of it and use it

My first phone was a hand me down from my hubby, it was like holding a brick compared to the phones today. I think I probably sounded like Dom Jolly, always shouting on it.

Mine was about the size of a house brick and it took me two years to leanr how to change between upper and lower case text. There were no smart phones, cameras or multimadia messages in those days, you just made a 9very expensive) call or slowly picked out the letters for a text….. if you knew anyone else with a mobile to send one to!

My first mobile phone was from the Automobile Association (AA) in the nineties. The battery came in a big satchel, and you could only phone the AA and the emergency services!

I was 11 and i was the last in my class to get one. It was an old Nokia. It had snake, that was all that mattered at the time

my first mobile was a bit of a brick and the one i have now is pretty old so this would be fab if i won

My very first mobile was a Nokia 1610 back in 1998. I remember telling the guy i’m privately renting a room and he put down the banks address (as my address) as i couldn’t produce a utility bill! I was brand new in London and was as excited about the phone as i was about London.

My first mobile was a clunky Nokia which I received as a gift. I loved it though, being able to text people and chat while I walked home! It’s amazing how much phones have changed!

My first mobile phone was when I was about 33. Yes, 33! Heavy, bright blue with a tiny screen. My children now play with it as a toy phone.

I won a phone many years ago, it was an original Nokia “Brick” the prize included free calls for a year. It was’nt such a fantastic prize as it may seem, no one else not colleagues or friends had mobiles, so it ended up being just an extra way to get hold of me. I couldn’t get hold of anyone else any easier than before!

My first mobile was a Nokia, inherited from my Dad. It was back in the day when then were brick like with toy like antennas. I remember it being so heavy it pulled my trousers down if I didn’t have a hand in one of my pockets. Definitely not the coolest accessory I’ve owned.

It was in the year 2000, it was a 30th birthday present and it was big and bulky, I cant even remember what make it was but it was huge!!

My first mobile was one of the very first, it was a block the size of 3 bricks stuck together, with a hand set which was connected by a proper swirly cable, and an extendable aerial. This thing must have weighed a couple of kg, and my mum insisted I take it to school on my bike, that was a hard couple of years, but it did have a special button to call the police.

My first mobile phone was a Philips Savvy about 12 years ago that was like carrying around a brick. At the time I thought it was fantastic until I bought a Nokia about 2 years later that was about half the size. I gave the Philips to my now ex-husband who used it for years (much to the amusement of everyone who knows him).

I was 18 months old when I got my first top of the range mobile phone. All of my friends at the Nursery were dead jealous.

It was made by Vtech and it had a thing called Bluetooth.

Wasn’t sure what that was then because cos at that moment in time I only had two or three teeth of my own and they were all pearly white.

It was fantastic, I could suddenly speak to anyone at anytime.

I got my first phone for my 13 birthday, and it was a Nokia face off with a union jacket cover. All I can remember doing on that phone was playing the game snake it took up most of my life out side school. Such a frustrating game! That was around 13 years ago now haha!

God knows how old I was, but I got a nice brick of an LG phone. It practically was the size of my head and the worse thing about it all is that I am not even that old so I can’t be excused as small phones did exist.

Though it was a damn sturdy thing; just like a brick I suppose.

It was large and black and very clumsy,
It was given by my wife, who is very mumsy.
To keep you safe she said with wit,
But I did’t know what to do with it.

my very first phone was a sony ericson, i loved it , i still have it but its not doing the job it should do lol, its getting to old know , hahahahaha, would really like this new one , xxxxx

I was (and still am) a deaf old bat and it used to REALLY annoy my husband when he tried to call me and I couldn’t hear it ring – the looks I got from the people nearby were the only clue to me that my phone was ringing. Am more ‘wised up’ now but have the perfect excuse if I don’t want to speak/answer the phone

I got my first mobile 15 or so years ago, was a massive phone that had a one line display which made it awkward for sending and receiving text messages.

My first phone was a Nokia, it was sort of a peacock colour and had an ariel! I used to love playing Snake on it!!

My first mobile came free with a face cream purchase from Avon. It seemed such a great deal i bought alot of face cream so that my boyfriend could have a phone too! They were nokia basic PAYG but made out of a rubbery material that meant they lasted years!

11 YRS OLD THE PHONE WAS CALLED A TECHNOPHONE BASED ON THE NOKIA 101 VEY BIG VERY HEAVY BUT VERY COOL!!!!!!!!

my first mobile was when I was quite old, maybe in my 30s – it was a basic samsung model, and I hardly ever used it!

I got my first mobile phone when I got my first car. So that if I broke down whilst on the road at night I could call someone for help. It made me feel much safer.

I bought my first mobile phone when my daughter was 7 (9 years ago) My partner & I ‘lost’ her on the beach at Scarborough. He went one way to look for her & I stayed where we were in case she came back. When she did turn up, having wandered across the beach rather than straight down, I had no way of getting in touch with him until he returned. We both bought a phone and now this is no longer a problem -also she’s 16 now !

i got my first mobile phone when i was 16, in 1999, a result of passing my GCSE’s. it was a gold vodafone with an aerial haha
thanks for a fab comp x

My first phone was the Nokia 3310 and I just remember the fact that it was indestructible and I loved playing snake

My first phone was an Ericsson EH237. I thought it was marvelous at the time. 80 Quid for a battery and bills with no minutes included coming in at £150 per month. Pre-GSM as well so no text messages.

Looking back it was really like being in the dark ages!

my first mobile phone was a rather bulky nokia. a rather simple basic thing it was and to be honest i’ve just stuck to the same principles. nothing fancy- just something to call and text. but i rather fancy a change and i’d really love to win one of these sonys. it looks rather flash but very nice. and i’m sure i could manage to operate it eventually. bout time i had a flashy phone. hope i’m lucky

My first mobile phone was a Motorola Flare in 1996. It cost a whopping 150 pounds on contract. Paying that amount of money itself was quite a shocker to me then. Anyway, I loved the phone as it enabled me to communicate with my sick mother in London several times a day as I was studying in Cardiff. The phone came in handy in an unexpected way one day. In a remote train station in Glamorgan, I was attacked by a couple of naughty youths trying to rob me. I used the phone to defend myself as it was as big as a brick. I whacked one or two youths with it and they ran away with much fright. Amazing how that little phone saved me from being robbed.

I got my first mobile aged 40 and we bought it as my daughter fell off the back of a lorry- yes, really. She was playing on the tail gate of the removal lorry as we were moving from Guernsey to UK, and she fell off and broke her arm. As my hubby was going back to the UK via car with son and rabbit, we needed mobiles to communicate whilst I stayed with daughter in hospital and then to fly out next day. That was 2000

Mine was a second hand Nokia phone which like most was a heavy brick but i did enjoy playing the game Sanke on it

It cost £10 and had a little ariel sticking out the top! You couldn’t do much with it other than texting.

My first mobile was my mum’s old one and that made it really old! It had a nariel and everyhitng but still, all my friends were jealous

1st phone looking back now was a huge heavy horrible thing but at the time thought it was the best thing, that was until I got my first phone call on it from my lovely boyfriend to tell me he missed me, then that became the best thing on then best phone!

What a great comp! My first mobile was the size of a house! No camera phone, just calls and texts it was so basic but I loved it!

good luck everyone!

My first mobile was blue and signal was so poor I could only make a call by leaning out of the kitchen window, over the sink! Things have improved since then.

My first phone was one of those ones with the face on that played music when you turned the dial! The eyes use to move when pulled across the floor too which was really cute – he made a reappearance recently on Toy story 3!!

My first mobile phone was the size of a brick and wouldnt fit in my pocket – had to be carried round in a bag – how times have changed!!

I got my first mobile when i returned to the UK following a year in the states, when i left no-one had a mobile, in fact i had a pager so friends could contact me, when i returned it was a shock as everyone was walking around with a mobile as they had become affordable.

Mine was the Motorola Ringo which I got on Vodafone Pay as You Go. I admit I chose the handset because of the name (I love The Beatles). I saved for months to get it and I was so proud as an 11 year old.

After resisting for years, I finally succumbed and took over my son’s old Nokia when he upgraded to a Smartphone. Still tend only to use it for when I break down on the motorway, though, or when the wife REALLY needs to talk to me!

I got my first mobile phone in 1998, when I was in my first year of secondary school. It was a huge Motorola phone, which was very fashionable because it came with two (!) different skins. Woo hoo!

I had my first mobile in the mid nineties & it was a Phillips. It was bigger than our home phone! I thought it was the ugliest thing ever, but I took it everywhere with me out of necessity. I’m sure my daughter doesn’t believe me when I tell her what mobiles used to be like!

I spent the entire day prank calling my home number and hanging up before my Dad could answer the phone. Needless to say, he didn’t know I had a mobile and didn’t really understand the concept of one. Oh, what fun times we had!

I didn’t get my first mobile until I was 22 which was a fair few years ago now as I’m now 39. It was an old old Nokia and it was quite a large phone but because that was all was about back then it was the best phone ever as far as I was concerned. I loved it! oh gone are the days of not being able to fit your mobile in your pocket….thinks wistfully

My first mobile phone was free with Avon – they had run out so gave me a slightly better one in the Orange shop – the upgrade meant it had polyphonic ring tones but all I wanted was a standard “ring ring”. I only really received calls from my husband for the first year but I did learn how to text. I still have the same number (only my second phone) and I still do not know what it is.

My first phone was actually a Sony Ericsson T10s. I used to lay in bed under the cover for hours just typing random things and going through the menu simply because I was so amazed by what it could do. I was obviously always sleepy in school the next day but my parents never found out why and I sticked to Sony for my mobile phones every since!