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Posted: 3/5/2020 10:05:54 AM EDT
Nokia 5125 for me.  Playing snake was fun, texting was a pain in the dick.  But I felt like a straight up pimp at the time, and laughed at the poors and their pagers haha

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Then I realized what roaming charges were, and text/minute plans were brutally enforced.  Yikes.
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Bag phone.
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Data mining thread.

It was an Audiovox bag phone in like 1993 or so.
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Motorola bag phone
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A $20 throwaway flip phone from Walmart.
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Same. Had an external antenna on my truck too.
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Nokia 5125 for me.  Playing snake was fun, texting was a pain in the dick.  But I felt like a straight up pimp at the time, and laughed at the poors and their pagers haha

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/485868/200px-Nokia-5125-Cobalt-Front-Upright_jp-1302814.JPG

Then I realized what roaming charges were, and text/minute plans were brutally enforced.  Yikes.
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Can't forget the snake game!
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One model newer than this one, on mine the mic was on the phone itself (near the flip hinge) and the flip was just a thinner piece of plastic that covered the keypad.  On 360 Communications network in the mid 90s, 360 was bought out by Alltel in the late 90s.
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Whatever at&t had in 97 or so. Not quite a brick phone, but a little smaller.
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1992
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Link Posted: 3/5/2020 10:13:57 AM EDT
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Bag, @ 1993

Link Posted: 3/5/2020 10:13:57 AM EDT
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Idk it was like 25 years ago lol.
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this was my first,was always loosing the damn this it was so small.
Link Posted: 3/5/2020 10:15:33 AM EDT
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Emerson, than Nokia.
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This.  Then a Nokia 5125.
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The Nextel "Brick"

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Purchased at Circuit City in Huntsville, AL in 91’ish. It had a 60 minute per month plan for $60.

IIRC, the phone was $250ish.
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It was a Nokia pay-by-the-minute phone, sometime in the mid to late 90s. Not sure which model.
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Bag phone from RadioShack.
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I had the first Motorola "brick" phone, before they came out with the "mini-brick."  BrandsMart would give you the phone for a penny, but you had no free air time.  Every call you made was charged at $0.50 per minute.  And you had a mandatory two-year contract.

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Motorola i90
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Same here.  My wife thought I was crazy until we broke down in the middle of nowhere!
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Yup.
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this was my first,was always loosing the damn this it was so small.
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mine too
Link Posted: 3/5/2020 10:22:45 AM EDT
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I was late to the cell phone game, I didn't see a reason to have one back then.

My first phone was some POS nondescript flip phone. I remember it had "custom ringtones" that were more or less MIDI files.

That said my second phone as a Razr.
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Purchased at Circuit City in Huntsville, AL in 91’ish. It had a 60 minute per month plan for $60.
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IIRC, the phone was $250ish.
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The Zack Morris special was my first phone too.
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My dad’s company had their own network of these.  It was awesome when they lifted the network and everyone could direct chat with anyone who had one.
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Sprint Katana
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Nokia brick
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Nokia 5125 for me.  Playing snake was fun, texting was a pain in the dick.  But I felt like a straight up pimp at the time, and laughed at the poors and their pagers haha

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/485868/200px-Nokia-5125-Cobalt-Front-Upright_jp-1302814.JPG

Then I realized what roaming charges were, and text/minute plans were brutally enforced.  Yikes.
Can't forget the snake game!
Slightly different model, had the brick game. I was late getting into the cell phone game. In the early 90s I had a pager.
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Mine was virtually the same as pictured in the op,  but solid black with a green backlit LCD screen.
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Nextel on a Motorola i1000.  '98 or '99.

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This right here and it was expensive to operate.  $1 a minute
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Similar Motorola Flip Phone
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Same.
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Don't remember the model number.  Motorola equipment.  Installed in car.  Took up quite a bit of trunk space.  Circa 1985.
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I dont remember my first, but I do remember when I switched over to the pm225 because it had blue buttons in the mid 90s then the razer when it came out. My first smart phone was the blackberry then my first android was the my touch 3g slider. First apple was the 3gs.  Think my first galaxy was the galaxy s3. Before the galaxy s3 I was all about HTC phones.
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I think I had the same phone OP.
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My wife gave me some kind of Trak flip phone.
I have no idea who makes it, don't care.
I use it maybe 2-3 times a year.
Other wise it sits in a dish on the hall desk.

It's just something my wife tried to get me to use/carry that I see very little to no use in my daily life.
If it was to disappear tomorrow I wouldn't even notice.

I really don't consider it "my" cell phone. My wife has some kind of cell phone, I have no idea who made it.
That being said, to OP's question, I still haven't gotten my first cell phone.

Just have no interest in cell phones. As previously mentioned they have no use in my daily life.
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Ohh man, I've had so many...

I think was a Motorola Bag Phone that I looked like I was calling in Airstrikes...  
Next was a Moto Brick Phone, I like to call the Zac Morris (from saved by the bell)
Then I think a Moto Star Tac Flip
A few unrememberables
Then a Nextel PTT Brick Phone (work provided)
Then a Nextel Flip (work provided)
Then a few early "Smart Phones" (work provided)
Then a few Samsung Galaxy Sx (work provided)
Now an Samsung Galaxy S9+... Not the latest by any means, but does all I need it too..
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This.
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