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It was this.

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Fun to think about how durable they are. I can remember various time the phone falling from my pocket while riding a bike, with only a few scratches to show it. 🙂
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I had the simple Nokia but I had many covers. I gave the whole she-bang to Goodwill after 2 years. I don't even remember my second phone but it was free and had a flip front and lasted till I got my/the first iPhone (Edge). Since then it's been iPhone 3GS to iPhone 4 to my current iPhone 5.
 

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My first mobile phone was back in 1987 and it was a Motorola bag phone. What a PIA it was to get this thing set up.

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Nokia 5110, which I ended up breaking the antenna off while at a party which made it essentially useless. This was a Tracfone in 2001ish. I then got my Verizon Kyocera (no idea what model) that I believe my brother got after I got my own account.
 
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My first phone was a Motorola Razr V3xx. I thought it was the coolest thing! I guess I was a spoiled child because these were the iPhones of their day.
 
My first was a Motorola TeleTAC 250:
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Got a MicroTAC Elite the next year:
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The MicroTAC Elite lasted me through college, then I went through a few phones until getting a Nokia N-Gage (after it had been discontinued,) because it was the cheapest phone I could buy (traded it for the free phone I got with my new T-Mobile contract - the free phone had a camera, and the person selling the N-Gage just wanted a phone with a camera,) that had Bluetooth and would sync with the Mac via iSync. That was my primary phone until the iPhone came out.
 
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