How many different cell phones have you owned in your life?

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#1

GWC seems to have a nice diversity of personalities and backgrounds, age groups etc.

GWC folks definitely more technology consuming and technology aware then the average population.

I’m curious, how many cell phones you’ve owned in your lifetime?

Can you remember? So many that you’ve lost count? Smartphone? All about the texting and apps or email or durability or twitter?

I feel like there’s a story there. I’m guessing younger folks may have had or equal to older folks.

(And is it shocking that I’m 46 and have only owned three cell phones in my lifetime?)

#2

I’ve had five

-Nokia 8110
-some LG flip phone
-Motorola Razor
-LG Chocolate
-iPhone

#3

Mind if I ask how old were you when you go your first cell phone? And how old are you now?

#4

I was eighteen when I got my first cell phone, I had just finished my first year of college.

I’ll be 26 next week.

#5

I have lost count. Heck at my first job I had a beeper! I think I was probably 26 or 27 when I got my first cell, a Startac. I’m late 30s now.

#6

3 total. Got the first one in my early 40s.

  1. Sanyo - flip phone
  2. Motorola - International phone
  3. LG - flip phone
#7

Let’s see:

  • Nokia Freephone (probably the Nokia 6010, but I’m not sure.
  • Nokie 6620 (My first attempt at a smartphone)
  • Tmobile Dash
  • iPhone (jailbroken on tmobile)
  • Samsung Galaxy S (Tmobile Vibrant)

5 I guess

I had longed for an all-in-one device. In 2005 I was carrying around my phone, a palm pilot (actually it was a Handspring Visor Edge) and an iPod. I got the 6620 and that was sort of an upgrade. The Dash was decent, I’m not a fan of Windows Mobile though. At the time, the biggest frustration was the design of the device. The phone’s volume control was a touch pad, and it didn’t have any method of shutting off. So if you held it to your face, the volume could get either really really loud, or really really soft. It was obnoxious.

I fell in love with the iPhone. A fast interface and sticking with my preferred carrier took me to android, and that’s where I am now.

#8

Nokia 5165 (got it at 17, maybe I was a little older I can’t remember in my old age)
Samsung flip phone
LG flip phone
Motorolla Brick (Cliq)

#9

I’ve had 4 phones (I believe, my memory is not the greatest):
-first phone at 16 when I started driving, hand-me-down Nokia, old big guy.
-first flip phone (LG) when that one died.
-first touch screen LG Voyager when the screens broke on the flip phone.
-waited until the iPhone came to Verizon to upgrade to a smartphone when it came out this year (I’m 23).

I take pretty good care of my phones, mp3 players, etc and was always reluctant to switch or upgrade until the current phone was unusable. And I actually kept my LG Voyager with an alternate number as a business line for the time being.

#10

Not at all. I’m only on my third one myself. Partly b/c I was a relatively late adopter. Being reachable at all times didn’t seem all that appealing to me, and when I did get a cell I got an out-of-state number to discourage people from calling me casually.

The other reason is my first phone was ‘good enough’ and I kept it for a long time. I didn’t get a smart phone until the first iPhone came out (now, of course, I’m on my second iPhone.)

#11

4

Motorolla i530 (Black)
Motorolla i580 (Grey)
Samsung Rant
Iphone

Lol Quite a step up

#12

Just 1, and I’ve had it less than 4 years.

Motorola flip phone (the one everyone on TV seemed to use until the IPhone came out :wink: ).

#13

I don’t remember them all… but I’ll name my favorites:

Motorola P7689

This was my first cell phone. Before this I hated the idea of a cell phone. I was constantly attacked by family and friends for not having a cell phone. So finally I got one. And I LOOOOVED this phone. It was sturdy. Call quality was wonderful. I thought the look was slick and beautiful. I loved to program silly music into it.

It was the phone that I used the longest. I had to stop using it when as I was closing my car door, it fell out of my pocket and the earphone socket was crushed a little. To this day, I have to say it was my favorite.

HTC Desire

My current phone. It is pretty cool. But I wish I could have a phone that runs Linux inside and runs native apps outside… It’s my only hate for it.

#14

Age: 24
Total owned cell phones: 2
a) Motorola C139: With German SIM-Card, old but reliable. I don’t need fancy-smancy stuff like java games, different ringtones for different callers and such
b) Nokia 1800: With Austrian SIM-Card, more modern, and it even has radio capabilities

just for comparison:
female cousin in Bulgaria, Age: 15 in 2 day
from my end felt owned cell phones by her: 6-10

The younger generations are really over exaggerating it!

#15

I don’t know the brands, or even the companies for most of these, but I’ve had:

  1. Of of those bigger ones that was about an inch thick and gunmetal grey.
  2. One with a black/white screen and the “internet” was to their sites only and cost $##/minute.
  3. An updated version of #2 with a color screen, but everything else I used was a step down.
  4. A net10 phone of some kind.
  5. A 2nd net10 phone, because they were essentially free.
  6. Walmart’s “smartphone” just to see what was so great about smart phones.
  7. A Motorola Droid (I guess you’d call it a “1” as the 2’s out now)

1 I had for a few years in the late 90s, 2 and 3 got me from about 2001-2007, 4 and 5 were each in 2008 and 2009, 6 I had for part of 2010, and 7 I’ve had since, and likely will keep for at least another year. The Droid 2 is nice and all but not nice enough to upgrade.

#16

Let’s see here, I got my first phone in my senior year of high school and I’m 27 now.

  1. some kind of Nokia
  2. another kinda of Nokia
  3. some type of Samsung flip phone
  4. Motorola Razr
  5. LG NV2
  6. iPhone 3
  7. iPhone 4 (current)

Up until I got the iPhone 3, I had been on my mom’s cellular plan and we just upgraded the phones every time she renewed the contract. Eventually I decided I wanted a phone with Internet connectivity, so I signed up for my own AT&T contract and got an iPhone. Had that for a little over two years and decided to upgrade to the 4 a couple months ago.

#17

I’ve personally owned approximately 8 in past 16 years. Work related phones I have no idea … dozens I would imagine ( and no, I’m not in the mob, see 5th amendment).

first was a Nokia 2110 … this looks vaguely familiar … owned for about 2 weeks, then it was cloned :frowning:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfPoMcc306k

Personal use, I am still my rockin’ my 4 year old Razr.

What a marvelous modern age we live in.

#18

Only two. I had a Nokia flip phone for years, and just got an HTC Thunderbolt.

I’m a classic late adopter, but once I decide to jump I tend to make big changes. :slight_smile:

#19

Two Motorola Flip Phones, a Sprint phone, a Motorola Razr, a LG Voyager, and a Motorola Droid. There might have been a replacement Razr in there too, I can’t remember.

This is all since 1996.

~Shooter Out

#20

I got my first cellphone, a Motorola W175g, three years ago. I got my second and current cellphone, an LG600G, early last year. I only have it for emergencies (like during a Comcast outage) or when I travel.

Not giving my age.