How old were you when you had your first cellphone?

lol!!! I am 37 so they weren't even around when I was a kid!!! I remember some really rich people (I wasn't rich!!) had them when I was a teenager. You could always tell who had them because of the weird antenna on their car (they were called "car phones" back then). I remember it got to the point you could buy a fake antenna for your car to make it look like you had a "car phone". When I was 25 (1996), I was pregnant with my 1st child and our phone service went out for 8 days and so my dad let me borrow his portable phone. It was this big phone in a bag. YIKES!!! I finally got a real cell phone when my son was 3 1/2 (1999) and I was 29. Now it feels like I have always had it. My husband and I are about to give our oldest son (now 12 1/2) his first cell phone for Christmas. With almost no pay phones around anymore, we feel safer if he can get a hold of us.

I didn't get one until I was 19 and a freshman in college. I got it for Christmas that year from my parents. I shared one with my mom during high school. If I was going somewhere (i.e. high school sporting events, out with friends) then I would take the cell phone so she could get a hold of me if she needed something. My fiancee just got one this past June and he's 22. He waited until after he graduated from college to get one and he always said he wasn't going to get one. We don't use our phones that much but since he is a software engineer and creates programs for cell phones and blackberries he needed one.

Well, I had my first cellphone when I was 21. It took me long time to buy the phone considering that I have to save money for such. My parents could not afford, so I have to save money out of what I get from my part time job earnings.

i was 17 years old when i had my first cellphone. But it wasnt mine. I just borrowed it from my brother's in law's brother. And then, one year after during my debut, my parents gave me my first cellphone as a gift.

I was 22 years old .I had just finished college and I needed my cell phone so that I could make calls to different work places because I didnt have a landline .I remember it now it was siemens blue with black stripes along the sides.It was heavy and thick when compared to modern sleek thin phones.I think it was also costly by modern standards ,if I bought it today it would have cost half of that amount .Loved it very much though

I was 18

I was almost 24 when I got my first cell phone. Of course, it was at a time when cell phones first became affordable to the general public.

I got my first cellphone when I was 16 years old. I just graduated in high school then and my parents bought me a cellphone as a gift. It was also a necessity for me as I am going to college. There are lots of time that I need to do projects that make me go home late at night so cellphone is handy for me. My parents could contact me and it makes easy to communicate with my classmates for group assignments.I have seen many kids nowadays that have cellphones even though they don't need it yet as my opinion. They are so young but I guessed it's how things worked nowadays.

i was 14 when i recieved my first phone, from my parents of course. and i do think its ridiculous that kids ive seen that are 5, 6 ,9 have cellphones, and i think its even more ridiculous that i saw a 10 year old girl with a blackberry.. what the hell does a 10 year old need a blackberry for?

I had my cellphone when I was 48 years old. I received it from my employer through salary deduction. It is now 12 years old that I still use it.

i was 17 years old and it was a very cheap one. Not many people had cell phones at my school at the time, but there were quite a few people who did have. Those were the rich kids. Nowadays every single member of the family will have a cell phone and some have more than one cell phone. Different service provider = different phone.

I was 20 when I got my cell phone. cell phones are a necessity now a days.

I got my first Alcatel cellphone when I was 23... After working in the IT industry for 1 whole year, without a cellphone :) Amazing! And I was taking public transport back then..

before i got my own cellphone, i was just borrowing dad's cellphone. I think I was 14 at that time. Then, he realized that I should have my own cellphone, so he bought one for me...and it's color orange! :) and I'm one of the few who have cellphone in our class... :)

I think I was 20 years old when I had my first phone.

I was 19 when I had my first cellphone. I was in college that time and I had to leave home for 3 months for my practicum so my parents gave me a cellphone as their advanced graduation gift for me. My niece, on the other hand, had her first ever cellphone when she was 8. It was a cellphone which I handed down to her when I had a new one. Although she was too young to have a cellphone then, she was not really into it. She just used it for games. But know, she is already 15 and uses her cellphone for socializing and texting with her classmates and friends.

I was around 17 when i got my first cellphone and even that is because i m in university. When when i go pass primary schools its dissapointing me to see kids so young having their own cellphone. What is wrong wiyh their parents?

I was 21 years old when I was in univercity grade two,I got my first cellphone.At that time many classmate had their cellphone once they come to univercity.I think maybe their family was richer.In fact I didn't have too much many,so I just got one of cheap cellphone.Anyhow my first cellphone have brought me a lot of happiness.

I was 26, and was a really new experience. It was very strange, but pleasant and comfortable that I could call anybody. And it is since then, however I dont use it very much.

i got my first cell phone when i was 15, now i`m 20 and i changed just like 4 cellphones by now