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1986 Radio Shack Attached File
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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!!" |
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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. View Quote |
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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.
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Some AT&T grey flip phone with an antenna you pull up, just for calls only.
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This audiovox
http://www.mobilecollectors.net/phone/3406/AudioVox-GDX250XL |
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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.
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Same for me, OP. Then I got one of those super small Nokias and I thought I was hot stuff.
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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.
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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. |
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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. View Quote |
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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.
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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. View Quote |
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I think my ex still has mine.
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