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Posted: 3/5/2020 11:23:18 AM EDT

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Bag phone and then upgraded to a Nokia

Posted: 3/5/2020 11:25:40 AM EDT

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1986 Radio Shack

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Posted: 3/5/2020 11:32:30 AM EDT

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Motorola bag phone

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Same here, around 1989 I believe.

Damn thing looked like a purse.

Got rid of it asap for something else, maybe an early flip phone, not sure.

Posted: 3/5/2020 11:32:32 AM EDT

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Another bag phone user here. 25 cents per minute, didn't matter who called who... Cost me almost 1000 bucks counting the truck install kit... 1992ish.

I remember my father just king of shaking his head at me when he found out how much money I'd spent "just to look cool"... And me thinking... "Worth it!!"

Posted: 3/5/2020 11:35:23 AM EDT

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Mine was the same as yours OP

Posted: 3/5/2020 11:47:28 AM EDT

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Mini brick.

Posted: 3/5/2020 11:48:33 AM EDT

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This. I even had an antenna mounted to my golf cart for my bag phone !!

Posted: 3/5/2020 11:49:58 AM EDT

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Purchased at Circuit City in Huntsville, AL in 91’ish. It had a 60 minute per month plan for $60.
https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/125234/7FD5FAE0-239D-422A-B91E-65A8149FAE9B-1302825.jpg
IIRC, the phone was $250ish.

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This and I think it was .95cents a minute, first 30 or 60 minutes a month were included in the monthly fee.

Posted: 3/5/2020 11:51:40 AM EDT

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Pantech C300 "Go Phone". It was so small, everyone joked that I was using the "Zoolander phone". I had a young employee at Best Buy tell me he wanted to buy it when I was still using it. I kind of miss the small size of it, it was easy to drop in a pocket. Now I have a Pixel 3XL that is like a brick in your pocket.

Posted: 3/5/2020 11:57:09 AM EDT

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1990: Motorola bag phone, with service through LA Cellular. $100 per month for service, plus $1 per minute for local calls. Long distance extra. Roaming (where you could find it) was $5 per day.

Posted: 3/5/2020 11:57:45 AM EDT

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Posted: 3/5/2020 12:03:13 PM EDT

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Posted: 3/5/2020 12:38:18 PM EDT

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It was about 7" long.

Posted: 3/5/2020 12:40:17 PM EDT

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Similar to OP's, but with deployable antinner.

Posted: 3/5/2020 12:45:40 PM EDT

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Some AT&T grey flip phone with an antenna you pull up, just for calls only.

Posted: 3/5/2020 12:47:46 PM EDT

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2 tin cans and string.

Posted: 3/5/2020 12:49:02 PM EDT

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This audiovox
http://www.mobilecollectors.net/phone/3406/AudioVox-GDX250XL

Posted: 3/5/2020 12:49:26 PM EDT

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Motorola DynaTAC 8000X in '84.

Posted: 3/5/2020 12:50:12 PM EDT

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1985, mounted inside my truck. Paid $500.00.

Posted: 3/5/2020 12:50:45 PM EDT

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LG Chocolate is the first one I can remember having. May have had one before that as well.

Posted: 3/5/2020 12:52:14 PM EDT

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Posted: 3/5/2020 12:52:30 PM EDT

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Posted: 3/5/2020 12:53:06 PM EDT

[#23]

Some motorola in a bag then into the Nokia.

Posted: 3/5/2020 12:55:08 PM EDT

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This one.

Posted: 3/5/2020 12:55:36 PM EDT

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Posted: 3/5/2020 12:58:46 PM EDT

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Motorola Razr

Posted: 3/5/2020 12:59:24 PM EDT

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Sprint PCS SCH-1000

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Posted: 3/5/2020 1:04:07 PM EDT

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Sanyo Katana LX

Now I'm rocking the Note 10+ with the infinity stones in the back

(Aura Glow).

Posted: 3/5/2020 1:06:40 PM EDT

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circa 1995 without the flip piece

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Posted: 3/5/2020 1:09:20 PM EDT

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Some POS Nokia Tracphone I bought (reluctantly) in 2005 when I was buying my first home. I resisted until I couldn't any longer.

Posted: 3/5/2020 1:13:40 PM EDT

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Posted: 3/5/2020 1:26:27 PM EDT

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Same for me, OP. Then I got one of those super small Nokias and I thought I was hot stuff.

Posted: 3/5/2020 1:28:30 PM EDT

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I think it neat that until the smartphones made the scene it was all about who could make the smallest phone. Now the opposite is true lol.

Posted: 3/5/2020 1:28:35 PM EDT

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8th grade, 2004ish. My parents got a family plan and let my brother and I share it. I remember being bummed out that it didn't have a camera or outside screen.

We hardly used the thing since no one else really had phones in our age group. I'll never forget receiving my first ever SMS text message on it. Had no idea what was happening or what it was. It was from a girl, though

Once 10th grade rolled around, I got a RAZR. Now that was a phone I'll always love

Posted: 3/5/2020 2:08:48 PM EDT

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Nokia, the best everrrr!

Posted: 3/5/2020 2:14:17 PM EDT

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This. I was 20 at the time. My first phone. I've never had a personal land line.
Imagine someone going to college or living on their own without a cell phone today.

Posted: 3/5/2020 2:22:20 PM EDT

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Posted: 3/5/2020 2:25:38 PM EDT

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Something from Virgin mobile. Maybe 15 or more years ago I think. I liked the fact I didn't have to call Vigin to get my voice mails, it was on my phone.
That thing took abuse like a red headed step child. It was still working when I got a new one and donated the old one to some charity that wiped the phone, put minutes on it and got it service members overseas so they could get some calls.
Dropped my landline service about 3 months later. It had become nothing more than a telemarketing recorder. Still amazed at how many of friends still have one along with their cell phones.

Posted: 3/5/2020 2:43:19 PM EDT

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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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Same model I think. At least it looked pretty much like that. Thing was tough as nails too. Survived my chucking it at my ex girlfriends head more times than I can count and would last for days on a single charge. I remember free nights and weekends. Phone calls made before 7 pm on a weekday never lasted longer than two minutes.

Posted: 3/5/2020 2:45:32 PM EDT

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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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My wife felt the same.
We had just had our first child and I told her I didn't want her and the baby out there without one

Posted: 3/5/2020 2:47:21 PM EDT

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1998 from a radio shack. I was 18 and bought it. My parents looked shocked how small it was when I got home and showed them. 22 years later and I still have the same cell phone number.

Posted: 3/5/2020 2:49:10 PM EDT

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Wow, these bring back memories. Back when phones were really phones, and used as such. They had no reason to have giant touch screens, because you just CALLED PEOPLE.

Posted: 3/5/2020 2:50:07 PM EDT

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Motorola StarTAC.

Posted: 3/5/2020 2:53:30 PM EDT

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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 had a Blackberry back when they first came out. Don't remember the model number but it had a monochromatic screen and took about five minutes to download an email. Then I had some dreadful abomination running a mobile version of Windows OS for a while before the first iPhone came out.

Posted: 3/5/2020 2:58:07 PM EDT

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Bag phone.

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^^^ this.

Back the then the tech was new, one time in Dallas I picked it up to make a call, and got connected to a call already in progress between two strangers, I couldn't talk but I could listen to them talk.

Posted: 3/5/2020 3:02:24 PM EDT

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I think my ex still has mine.

Posted: 3/5/2020 3:56:43 PM EDT

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Got it used from my dad, when new those cost like $10,000 current value. They had excellent range and in Finland the last NMT450 network was shut doen only in 2002 because in Lapland you could get a connection from anywhere by just climbing the nearest hill. These days there are wast areas without any connectivity in Lapland, even with GSM CSD and you need a satellite phone in the wilderness.