I had the same Virgin Mobile phone. I got it after DD and I got lost in backwoods NC trying to get to a youth soccer game and almost ran out of gas. Scary! DH said it was time I had a cell phone.
Then this one and yep, I chose it because you could take photos with it. We were supposed to go Hawaii and I remember saying to my DH “How cool would it be to send someone a picture from a cellphone?” I don’t think I ever did.
Then this one. RAZR Bar. You could take photos on it AND put music on it. I think I managed through much frustration to get two MP3s on there. It’s still in a box somewhere. Once the iPhone came out there was no going back.Got my first in 2004 because I was going to college.
My dad was not very happy about it and yet then a few months later him and my mom got cell phones for themselves and then emailed me a pc that they took with them to show they not only got cell phones but CAMERA phones when I didn't get one with a camera!
It looked similar to this phone:
I got my dad back though because the next phone I got was a PINK razor and he broke his phone and asked to barrow mine until he was able to get to the store and he had to walk around using a pink phone lol.
This was my first from about 1996.
I don't remember the particular model, but I got a Nokia cell phone similar to this in mid-1997.
I believe my plan was for 90 free minutes per month plus 10 cents per text. I figured that was WAY more than enough. Then when the first bill came in it was for over $200 because I far exceeded the 90 minutes.
Not too many people in the U.S. had cell phones back then. I visited Hong Kong in April 1997 and was surprised because it seemed EVERYBODY there was walking around with cells, from business executives to the old woman collecting cans from the trash for recycling. It didn't reach that level of saturation in the U.S. until years later.
While searching for the above photos, I came across this nifty device. I definitely would have bought this if I had known about it.
We had one of those bag phones because my wife was commuting weekly between Vermont an Boston and I wanted her to be able to get help if she needed. Back then, and sorry I don't remember the exact year, cell phone service was spotty at best. There were so many areas that had no service at all, so it was practically useless unless one happened to breakdown in a good zone. I do remember how cool it seemed one time when we were on the way to WDW and were driving through Jacksonville. We called my parents in Vermont and just said Hi. It was considered nothing short of a miracle to be driving down the road in Florida and talking to someone in Vermont almost 1400 miles away. Now you don't even have to hang onto a phone.Bag phone. Sort of miss those days, when you didn't have the phones all over the place going off at inappropriate times.
