I recall I got my first mobile phone in late 93.
At the time, there wasn't too many around.
I just went into partners with a mate and started a building company.
It was actually embarrassing to use it in public.
People would give you filthy looks as you were seen as an elitist minority.
When did you get your first mobile and what experiences did you have ?

Old school nokia 5110 in year 10, maybe 11 so 98/99. Couldn't really afford to make phone calls mind you

I remember mid high school a family friend had a car phone. Pretty mad!

About 2 years ago. A small Nokia for $49. I'm on a $3/month plan, and still can't get through my credit. What do all these people do with their phones???

About 1996-7. Had a couple of little Nokia and Ericsson things over about 5 yrs, STILL better than the new crap that has an acre of glass in the front. They fitted in pocket with other stuff, you could read them in the sun (!!), you could do stuff by feel and with one hand, and they'd (mostly) survive being dropped.

Anyway, late 90's my mate got the Nokia thing that was extendable ...... cos he saw it on Swordfish
It was proclaimed at the mini-maxi phone cos it looked like a chick's pad. His coolness rating dropped...

So I got the first thing with voice activated dialling. At a party my mate picked it up and said "d1ckhead" and my other mate's phone rang. lol It picked up on the "i" sound and rang Billy.
Awkward. Until he then said "slut" and it called his girlfriend. Then I was in major trouble

Still don't own or want one . I think there just a fad

Sailhack said...
I think this thread has gone the rounds recently, but I'll bite.

A nec 'sportz' in '94. The thing was awesome! Red led screen, stored 9 phone numbers and had a sticker that went on the back of it that you wrote the names of your saved (9) contacts on... and it was only about half the size of a brick (hence the 'sportz' title).

That was my first mobile as well.
A half brick with a 4" Antenae.
I had an 015 prefix.
When I did work experience with a local plumber in 86, he had a briefcase size phone which stayed in the ute. When the phone rang, the horn would sound a few blasts. I bumped into him earlier this year and asked how much it cost him then. He said $5000. He said in the same year he sold his 2 bedroom unit for $50 K. 10% of the cost of that unit today would be $40 K. He said it paid off on no time with call outs for sewer chokes alone as he was one of only a few plumbers with a mobile phone in the area