Why would you not include the most epic of Nokia phones, the 3310?

How's this not on the list!

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Old enough?!

I remember number 1 from when I played GTA Vice City.

9.

But I had a sliding faceplate on it so I could be cool like neo.

Also it had Snake.

9, but my dad had a 4

Nokia 3210 was my first phone, then I went down the Nokia rabbit hole ending with the ngage, man I miss that company.

Only ever saw them in movies originally. But I also grew up in Buttfuck, Egypt so that didn't help.

You've got my second, third, and fourth there but my first was this one:

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#1 was my 3rd cell phone

9

I feel so young. #18 is still before my time...

My first phone was #5

My first phone was one of the Nokia bricks around the time of the 3310. When I was in middle school my old man carried a pager. He eventually had a phone around #5. My first was somewhere between 7-10.

With my first body shop, I ordered a used Sony Ericsson T800 from eBay that came from Europe. It was one of the first smartphones, pre android and with a resistive touch screen. I knew the utility was far more valuable. A bunch of family and friends swore up and down about their dumb flip phones and razors, and how I was crazy.

Oh my, I recognise #5! My dad had one of those and I inherited it before I got the classic Nokia brick with Snake and Space Invaders (?).

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When I was a kid you couldn't choose your phone. Or I guess you could choose between wall mounted or tabletop. They were leased from the phone company when you paid for a phone line.

My grandmother kept her bakelite rotary phone until she couldn't call her doctor without a touchtone.

I'm old enough to remember how in my third world country where I grew up people could buy plastic versions of the first model to pretend they were talking while walking on the street, because no one could actually afford a real one

Only one (#16) brick phone (numerical keypad, internal antenna, no moving parts)? Meanwhile, #7 and #9 might as well be variations of the same model.

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First actually used was 12

Gather 'round chillun and let grampy tell you about the times before cell phones

I had a toy version of number 1. My first was number 4 or a similar model, a hand-me-down from my dad when I started driving and he upgraded to number 5. We actually found number 4 while clearing out the house when moving my parents a couple years ago. Not sure why they still had it; it had been years since anyone used it when they moved in almost 20 years earlier.

Number 9, or something similar. It was a Bosch without keylock, so it called random people when it was in by school backpack (too big for pocket) as it had soft silicone buttons sticking out. You know, when calling was super expensive. My parents weren't happy. Soon after I got a Nokia 3210 which had keylock and fitted in my pocket. And had snake.

I briefly owned no3 as a replacement device, but started with no10 (or equivalent thereof)

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Yeah, number one was Zack Morris's phone. I think that the first mobile phone that I had was close to four. It definitely had the extendable antenna and was a flip phone but not a true flip phone like 5.

Something similar to 17, but black and orange. It had the prince of persia and a snowboarding game pre-installed