Where were you in 1999? What device did you have?

[dejanh]

I had a Panasonic brick phone, similar in size to the current cordless phones. I was drooling over a Motorola flip phone.

Edit: Ha, it was a Sony CMB1207CNT0, not Panasonic.

https://wiki.xdroop.com/space/cellphones/Sony+CMB1207CNT0

That was a good phone.

I'm pretty sure I was rocking this instil I finally swapped for a Samsung SPH-A500 (http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=158) - $700 at the time but it was cream of the crop. Only better option was a BlackBerry. Finally made the switch to a BlackBerry circa 2005 and rocked BlackBerry exclusively until around 2012. From there it was everything from BlackBerry 10 to iPhone and even some Froyo Androids.

 

[violetjune]

This looks like my first cellphone

 

[anon(9602380)]

This looks like my first cellphone
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That's the brick I mention in my post. Weighed you down and your arm was tired after talking on it for awhile!

 

[anon(9602380)]

I'm starting to assume I'm the youngest member in here lol

From the looks of it, you may have some competition. Not me of course!

 

[sangs]

Still in Jersey, I believe sporting a Moto StarTAC baby! My favorite phone of all time.

 

[sangs]

Remember the mobile phone antennas that used to be affixed to the rear window? I kid you not, but I saw a car with a fake one attached. My teen son didn't know what it was, and when I explained it to him, he was in awe.

I remember when my dad got one of those bag phones - when I was much younger, back in the 80's. It came with that antenna attached to the car. I was in awe myself.

 

[pr1nce]

I believe I had a Nokia phone back then. I don't remember the model or anything. It worked at the time.

 

[wilber1]

I was in Orlando and was probably using a Blackberry device.

BlackBerry released their first device the 850 in 1999 and I was using the Nokia 5110 got my first BlackBerry around 2008 I think the 8220 pearl flip great little phone .

 

[tramsay09]

I didn't have no cell phone and just got my first Windows 98 desktop and was still rocking a Sony portable cd player with anti skip

 

[kent1915]

Working on an apple laptop (dont remember what; work provided) and had an errickson cell phone that had snake game and made calls. Ended up shattering phone the night my son was born (long story), but that was an expensive boo-boo to make.

 

[JohnPAndrew]

Wow. In 1999 I was living abroad, and the most advanced and cherished device in my possession was a playstation.

 

[libra89]

Have you ever used a record player
They are making a comeback ...

I have noticed the comeback. I never got to use one, but I recall my parents having a few records and a record player that broke.

 

[anon(279851)]

Just got my overpriced Gateway PC. No cell. I hate I purchased that piece of crap pc.

 

[anon(124566)]

I was graduating junior high school and had a red and black motorola pager for page plus. When i started high school my parents got me a motorola startac or a timeport, i think. Then there was the baby of the family Compaq Presario with a whopping 400Mhz MMX 3D NOW! AMD Athlon processor, 100 gig hard drive, 128 MB of RAM, 56K modem and 10/100 ethernet port running windows 98.

 

[kataran]

I was with Sprint too in 1999. I remember the commercials with the needles falling to the floor. They promised clear calls. Oh well. Those were the days.

Funny I started with Sprint in the same year and haven't switched yet

 

[Trooper27]

In New Jersey and had a Motorola Startac. Loved that damn phone.

 

[Spencerdl]

Still in Jersey, I believe sporting a Moto StarTAC baby! My favorite phone of all time.

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LOL, I was also in New Jersey using the same device. I loved that little phone. I still have it.

KOOL

 

[Damien_Eternal]

I wasnt even in high school yet. My last year of junior high. I didnt have anything except a simple Texas Instruments scientific calculator for math class.

 

[Tytanious]

In 1999? I was a sophomore in High School. The only people I knew that had cell phones were my dad and one person my age. I thought they were so cool. A few kids in my school had pagers, which I thought were kind of cool too.

 

[john_v]

I got a pager when I got out of high school. Didn't really need it but boy I thought I was the Stuff