View Full Version : How old were you when you got your first mobile phone?
Kardan
28-01-2014, 10:59 PM
It seems that younger and younger kids are getting their first mobile phones...
When did you get your first mobile phone?
wixard
28-01-2014, 11:00 PM
11 i think, possibly 10
Aiden
28-01-2014, 11:01 PM
quite young like 8/9
dbgtz
28-01-2014, 11:01 PM
I got some hand me downs when I was fairly young just to fiddle around with, but my first one was probably around age 11-12.
Absently
28-01-2014, 11:05 PM
probably 11ish, i remember having awful nokias that didn't turn on when i was a bit younger just to play with
I believe I was tenand was one of the last to get one in my class. It's crazy seeing kids as young as 5-6 with them nowadays. A six year old I look after sometimes in work get an iPad.....WHY?!
Absently
28-01-2014, 11:17 PM
I believe I was tenand was one of the last to get one in my class. It's crazy seeing kids as young as 5-6 with them nowadays. A six year old I look after sometimes in work get an iPad.....WHY?!
i know yeah it's sooo crazy, one of the little girls that we work with has the newest iphone those coloured ones?? like what theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Ailurus
28-01-2014, 11:19 PM
I was 13.
Jordan
28-01-2014, 11:21 PM
I was 13 as well.
Ekelektra
29-01-2014, 01:46 AM
I was 13 and one of the last people in my class to get one.
Samantha
29-01-2014, 02:52 AM
My first phone I got when I was around 12? I didn't use it to call or anything, I just played games on it.
The first phone I got to actually text on and everything would have been 14 approximately, but I didn't start texting a lot until about 16/17 lmao.
When I started Secondary School
Drunq
29-01-2014, 04:46 AM
i was not about 10, 11 or 12!!! shocking . i was 13, 14 when i got my crappy sony ericson
karter
29-01-2014, 05:04 AM
i was fourteen i think
-Moniquee.
29-01-2014, 06:27 AM
Like 9 I think. It was a Nokia and I used to play snake on it and text my mum lol.
Sloths
29-01-2014, 06:41 AM
I got it for my 11th birthday for the move to 'big school' going into year 7 and having to walk to school. It was some kind of Nokia handmedown from my mum I used to text all the guys ;)
Had that crap phone til I was almost 14 haha
Elegance
29-01-2014, 08:43 AM
i was 8 and never understood how to use it, after that i didn't get another phone until i was 11
Charz777
29-01-2014, 09:58 AM
Got my first, good old Nokia 3410, on my 11th birthday!
Like 11-12 but that is when nokia bricks were only out haha. Everyone had those but I had this really old Samsung flip up!!
Ravingducks
29-01-2014, 11:11 AM
My first phone was a Sony Ericsson K800i and I got it on my 12th birthday ;p
Mr-Trainor
29-01-2014, 12:13 PM
When I was 11, and it was a Siemens :P. Then went through 3 or 4 different Nokias and now currently on my 3rd iPhone.
buttons
29-01-2014, 12:29 PM
11 got it handed down from my dad IT WAS GOLD
lawrawrrr
29-01-2014, 12:36 PM
I got it for my 11th birthday for the move to 'big school' going into year 7 and having to walk to school. It was some kind of Nokia handmedown from my mum I used to text all the guys ;)
Had that crap phone til I was almost 14 haha
literally the exact same as this
snake on nokia 3310 xxx
it had a supergirl case and everything (except my pink bit was camouflage x.x)
http://image.trendsales.dk/topics/3522/35226000/35226063.jpg?t=
Cassiieee
29-01-2014, 02:33 PM
When I was 12.
The nokia phone with the flashing sides.
Empired
29-01-2014, 02:53 PM
I was ten because I started walking home from school on my own. It was just a Nokia that cost £10ish though
Probs around 2001. So 10 maybe? My first phone was a Nokia 3310.
Meanies
29-01-2014, 11:06 PM
I was 10 and I remember feeling great because my brother had to wait until he was 12 hah. We both started with the same phone which was a philips and it had one of the little aerial things on the top of it, so old school. picture here (http://cdn.pocket-lint.com/r/s/300x350/images/LaQY/mobile-phone-40-year-anniversary-9.jpg). then we both upgraded to the nokia 3310 which was the best thing ever due to playing snake 10 hours of the day.
Daltron
30-01-2014, 12:22 AM
Think about 12 or 13
8/9. i used to get phones all the time when my dad had finished with them
-:Undertaker:-
30-01-2014, 01:17 PM
I *think* it was in Year 7 or Year 8.
Was in year 7 I believe so was like 11 haha got a fab pink slidey nokia
Bankai90
30-01-2014, 05:16 PM
When i was 15. Or is it 16? Around that time. :)
When I was 10 I got a Nokia haha
IzzyUhh
30-01-2014, 05:25 PM
Got one in year 7, So 11, and the only reason I was allowed was to tell my parents I got to school fine
my mum still doesnt let me have one
!x!dude!x!2
30-01-2014, 06:09 PM
I was 11 when I first got mine
Charz777
30-01-2014, 08:14 PM
I think there is a big difference between the phones that we had at 11 and the phones kids have these days anyway. Even if we had a phone at 11, it hardly did anything. We were charged 10p-12p to send a single text and if your parents were anything like mine you were only allowed £10 credit a month. So we played snake and only texted friends occasionally. (Or bought a sneaky £3 Habbo credits package and hoped your mum didn't find out how you were spending your phone credit... but that's not the point!)
But these days, 11-year-old and younger have access to Facebook and the internet so easily via their phones. They've got their music on and they're downloading videos and could be chatting to strangers on the internet because they think it's safe or they think they're being 'cool' to do so.
I would be fine giving an 11-year-old a phone like our old Nokias, but I wouldn't want my kids to have something like an iPhone until they were at least 14. My cousin got an iPhone when she was 10... And an iPad when she was about 12 (the word 'spoiled' comes to mind!) and she is always on it and thinks it's the best thing in the world. When I was her age I rode my bike out with the kids on my street, and played with my dolls house and other things that children do... She hasn't been interested in toys since she got her first computer at 7...
Aimehh
30-01-2014, 08:17 PM
i was 11 =)
UnrealGoffEmo
30-01-2014, 09:23 PM
my mum still doesnt let me have one
You sure your not 12 really Lol!!?
OldLoveSong
31-01-2014, 01:05 PM
I was 15 lol so quite oldish i guess !
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10 if i remember rightly.
Sharon
04-02-2014, 10:41 PM
mum kept passing her old phones to me so like 9
my first own phone was a brand new blackberry bold 9700 when I was like 12
so basically recently
Circadia
06-02-2014, 08:39 AM
My first ever phone was a samsung which had like a joystick thing in the middle which I got when i was 10.
My first proper phone which wasn't a hand me down I got when I was 13 and it was a really crappy HTC
and my latest phone is currently smashed to buggery which I bought with my own money when I was 15 it's also a HTC but I just use it for music now ive not had credit in months because it's basically useless
Metric1
14-02-2014, 06:14 AM
11. Good old Motorola StarTac. I needed one because I was left on my own a lot.
I was in the 12th grade, and it was a LG razor.
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