What was your first cell phone?

[DimensionDude]

My first cell phone was a bulky Motorola flip phone that I used until my carrier shut down their analog service.

I've owned only 5 cell phones, my current one is a 3 year old HTC Thunderbolt.

I made a video about them (yep, still have all of them) if anyone cares to watch it.

 

[Southern Dad]

In the early 70's my father had the first car phone that I'd ever seen. The company that he worked for installed it in his Lincoln Town Car. It looked like a trimline phone, remember those? The actual phone was in the trunk about the size of a briefcase but the handset was in between the seat.

It had a dial on it but it was useless. You had to pick up the phone wait for the operator, tell her the number you were calling... Then she would ring you back when she reached your party.

 

[thehustleman]

It was back in 2000 and I don't even remember the model.


It was before flip phones

 

[jlsm511]

Motorola V70

 

[Tinmania]

In the early 70's my father had the first car phone that I'd ever seen. The company that he worked for installed it in his Lincoln Town Car. It looked like a trimline phone, remember those? The actual phone was in the trunk about the size of a briefcase but the handset was in between the seat.

It had a dial on it but it was useless. You had to pick up the phone wait for the operator, tell her the number you were calling... Then she would ring you back when she reached your party.

My dad had one of those too but it was around 1980. This was in NY, before cell phones of course, and that meant like one base station in NYC served the whole area (only 12 calls at a time). So the wait to make a call was very long.

That thing in the trunk was needed because the phones back then had to put out like a gazillion watts in order to be able to reach the base station.




Michael

 

[jacobclause]

My first cell phone was a Motorola Bag Phone. It was huge but top of the line in it's day.

I replaced that the Brick Phone, the the slim Brick Phone. We've come a long way...

This one wins.

 

[Southern Dad]

My dad had one of those too but it was around 1980. This was in NY, before cell phones of course, and that meant like one base station in NYC served the whole area (only 12 calls at a time). So the wait to make a call was very long.

That thing in the trunk was needed because the phones back then had to put out like a gazillion watts in order to be able to reach the base station.

Michael

The funny thing was that my father didn't use it that much even when it would ring, he wouldn't answer it. When it would ring, he'd just say that he'd call them back when he got where he was going. He had an answering service, remember those? Never had to worry about him getting nailed for hands free.

One day, we drove up on the scene of an accident. He used the phone to call the police, ambulance and one of the driver's relative. That was the most use that thing saw in one day.

 

[vulcanvillalta]

What a long way we've come.

 

[unclegrumpyinc]

NOKIA !
one of those rectangle nokias.

VERY STURDY!!
and i think it had that worm game