When did you get your first phone?
By pheenkeesh
@pheenkeesh (103)
Philippines
November 3, 2012 11:03am CST
I'm just curious because it's common for kids to have their own phones. When I was younger, I knew my parents had no plans to give me one until I reached high school. Eventually, I entered a school with a dormitory far away from home so they gave me a bulky phone with an antenna (it was cheap but cellphones back then were still uncommon) just to keep in touch with them. I was around 12 years old, almost more than a decade ago. How about you guys?
9 responses
@pheenkeesh (103)
• Philippines
3 Nov 12
My phone was also a 2nd hand from my dad. It was a nokia 5110.
@jureathome (5361)
• Philippines
14 Nov 12
I got my first phone for my debut, and that was in 2000. Phones were already rampant in the country. Phones were expensive, then. I got a Nokia3200, i guess that was the model. The one with no antenna, first of its kind.
@williamjisir (22819)
• China
4 Nov 12
My first cell phone was bought in the year of 2002 and I still keep it in my drawer. It is a domestic brand. After using it for three years, I got another one, a Nokia one, which lasted for another three years. Now I am using a smart cell phone and it is gorgeous. I love it for its functions. I can almost do many things with my smart phone. Thanks for the discussion.
@miyazaki12 (429)
• Philippines
4 Nov 12
Hmmm.. well.. I got my first cellphone when I was in college. I was studying in a University back then and I am proud to tell you that I had bought my own cellphone. I got the money from the allowance that I receive every semester. I was a scholar before (I had too) because my none of my parents had work.
@Gretchen522 (715)
• China
4 Nov 12
I got my first phone at the first year of my university, because that was the first time I left home, studied in a very far city.
@ofzhernandez (278)
• Philippines
4 Nov 12
I receive my first cellphone when I was on my 2nd year college, that was on my 18th birthday. I think it was the first model of NOKIA that has an antenna in it. and the color was blue ^_^ I was happy at that time because so far I think on our province I was the first teenage who own a phone ^_^
@ellyse2003 (1463)
• Philippines
3 Nov 12
I was 11 years old when I got my first cellphone, I was very happy because in our class, I was the very first one to have a phone. It was a gift from my mom before graduation. It may be bulky, it was nokia 3210, but I like it so much. She gave me a lined phone so that I won't think much about loading my phone since after elementary I would be staying to a dormitory and I'll stay there for four years. They can always visit me if they want to.
@subhojit10 (7375)
• India
3 Nov 12
Thanks a ton for sharing this discussion. Well glad to hear your story about getting your first cell phone. I remember that i was in my 9th standard when i had my first cell phone. I used to participate in many competitions those days and hence in order to stay in touch with my parents during the course of the competition, they gave me a cell phone even though it was very bulky and unattractive but still it was very special moment for me.
What say?
@watchamacallitz (1171)
• Philippines
3 Nov 12
I had my first phone when I was graduating from Grade School and that was 11 years ago :) And like you, i had a phone that has an antenna, I believe it was a Nokia 5110 and it was in red :) I had that phone for almost two years and then I switched to another Nokia phone :)
Gee, at that time, phones were still bulky :)