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First cell phone .......October 2006 - August 2014: LG VX5400 flip phone
Second cell phone......August 2014 - present: Kyocera Event 3G with Android 4.0
Well, I can’t be as precise as the OP, but I got my first cell phone around 1994-1995 thanks to my son’s suggestion. I think my provider was GTE, later bought by Verizon. My home area was half of the state of CA located in the Central/north portion. Roaming outside of that area was a dollar a minute.
Then a few years later I switched to US Cellular which had a much larger service area and included roaming in all of CA and many adjoining states. Next came att when we moved out of the home area of US Cellular.
Then about 10 years ago, I got my first smartphone. An iPhone 4. Been with Apple ever since. Had the 5, 5s, 6, 6s! 7, and now the 11. Switched from att to Verizon about four years ago for better coverage.
I lost track of every phone I had previously. My first phone was a Motorola bag phone on Alltel in the mid 1990's and I have replaced my phones about every 2-3 years on the average. Not that I had to replace them, I chose to replace them.
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I don't know how you can remember all of them. We started in 1990, with big bricks from AT & T, and probably had 8 others before the smart phones came out, then I had 2 different Androids, now on the 3rd iPhone.
1997 with a Nokia. 1999 Motorola StarTac. Then it was fuzzy for a while. 2007 Motorola Razr. Then a Blackberry in 2009. From 2011 to 2013 some cheap android phone.
Then in January 2013 iPhone 5
2015 to 2017 iPhone 6
2017 to 2021 iPhone 8 Plus
2021 iPhone 12 Pro. With a work issued iPhone SE.
1997 - Motorola StarTac; first cell phone, small and fit in my pocket easily, replaceable battery (I kept several batteries on hand), and I could flip it open like a Star Trek communicator.
2008 - iPhone 3G; first smart phone, dazzled people with the fact that it had a legitimate full color web browser. Visual Voice Mail was the killer app for me. After four years, the battery wouldn't hold a charge for long.
2013 - HTC One M7; carved from a single block of aluminum; the camera sucked, but the Android interface was IMO a much better than the iOS interface. The HTC was a tank for taking abuse; I dropped at least four feet onto concrete several times and the worst that happened was that the aluminum chassis got ever so slightly bent. Would probably have kept it except for the dying battery, the intrusive Google ecosystem (it knew more about my day than I did), and the OS was no longer supported.
2020 - iPhone 11; Camera is amazing, but I struggle with the OS interface, and Siri has been left in the dust by Google's smart assistant. Wireless charging isn't as convenient as I had hoped it would be. One big plus is that my information is no longer totally owned by Google.
First cell phone was in 1994/1995 (?) and it was a Motorola flip phone. The phone was provided “free”, but the service was $70 a month plus taxes for 100 minutes in those days (ouch!) No texting or internet service, just voice calls. Carrier was PacTel cellular, which became Airtouch Cellular. Cellular service was lackluster in those days - frequent dropped calls, phone number/ESN number theft and “cloning” of phones, crosstalk, partial/full unintelligible calls, roaming charges, dead zones, etc.
I continued to use Motorola phones until 2008, when I purchased a Blackberry, which was my first smartphone. I continued to use Blackberry and Samsung until 2012, when my company provided me with an iPhone 4, my first Apple device.
I’ve been on Apple ever since. I’ve had iPhone 6, 8, XR and now on an iPhone 12 Mini with 5G.
Best was my first Blackberry in 2008, it was great in it’s time. I also liked my first iPhone and my iPhone 6 & 12.
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