Why would you not include the most epic of Nokia phones, the 3310?

How's this not on the list!

Author started in 90s and missed entire generation of 80s suitcase phones

Old enough?!

I remember number 1 from when I played GTA Vice City.

The one with a damn cord, you ageist bastard :P

Also wheres Nokia 3310

9.

But I had a sliding faceplate on it so I could be cool like neo.

Also it had Snake.

9, but my dad had a 4

Nokia 3210 was my first phone, then I went down the Nokia rabbit hole ending with the ngage, man I miss that company.

9

#1 was my 3rd cell phone

My first phone was #5

I feel so young. #18 is still before my time...

Only ever saw them in movies originally. But I also grew up in Buttfuck, Egypt so that didn't help.

You've got my second, third, and fourth there but my first was this one:

5 I remember liking dot matrix screen and browsing bit rushed WAP sites on it. Also being annoyed about having to activate the phone before I could use it.

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Gordon Gecko baby

First actually used was 12

What no bag phone!

Oh my, I recognise #5! My dad had one of those and I inherited it before I got the classic Nokia brick with Snake and Space Invaders (?).

My first phone was one of the Nokia bricks around the time of the 3310. When I was in middle school my old man carried a pager. He eventually had a phone around #5. My first was somewhere between 7-10.

With my first body shop, I ordered a used Sony Ericsson T800 from eBay that came from Europe. It was one of the first smartphones, pre android and with a resistive touch screen. I knew the utility was far more valuable. A bunch of family and friends swore up and down about their dumb flip phones and razors, and how I was crazy.

When I was a kid you couldn't choose your phone. Or I guess you could choose between wall mounted or tabletop. They were leased from the phone company when you paid for a phone line.

My grandmother kept her bakelite rotary phone until she couldn't call her doctor without a touchtone.

Number 9, or something similar. It was a Bosch without keylock, so it called random people when it was in by school backpack (too big for pocket) as it had soft silicone buttons sticking out. You know, when calling was super expensive. My parents weren't happy. Soon after I got a Nokia 3210 which had keylock and fitted in my pocket. And had snake.

I'm old enough to remember how in my third world country where I grew up people could buy plastic versions of the first model to pretend they were talking while walking on the street, because no one could actually afford a real one

Gather 'round chillun and let grampy tell you about the times before cell phones

I had a toy version of number 1. My first was number 4 or a similar model, a hand-me-down from my dad when I started driving and he upgraded to number 5. We actually found number 4 while clearing out the house when moving my parents a couple years ago. Not sure why they still had it; it had been years since anyone used it when they moved in almost 20 years earlier.

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1 is older than I am

My first phone was like 18 but also I didn't get a cellphone until I was nearly 30

Motorola D160. That thing was an absolute tank. Switched to the Nokia 5110 but still kept the D160 for the more rough stuff, camping trips, construction, etc.

Can't say I miss having that thing strapped to my belt though 😅

Motorola c115

I briefly owned no3 as a replacement device, but started with no10 (or equivalent thereof)

Something similar to 17, but black and orange. It had the prince of persia and a snowboarding game pre-installed

11 because I was still super young and got my first real job at age 22, and it was still an era when cell phones weren't requirements, and my parents absolutely weren't paying for them yet. Felt super cool getting such a crazy phone, but the appeal rubbed off quick once I got those on call calls at 3am...

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Like 25

9, later 12 (didn't get to keep 9)

Flip version of 11. The Perl flip.

My first phone was #3

Yeah, number one was Zack Morris's phone. I think that the first mobile phone that I had was close to four. It definitely had the extendable antenna and was a flip phone but not a true flip phone like 5.