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19 or 20. It was a Nokia and it was pre-flip phones. I don't think you could even get cell reception in my hometown inNorthern WI until I was almost done with college so no one I knew back home even had one.

I was 20 and it was my junior year in college, fall of 2001. If I remember correctly, my parents decided to add me to their "plan" after 9/11. It was also the old school Nokia with a bright pink faceplate that had butterflies on it - hahaha.

I was 18 and a senior in HS. People were just starting to get them, and I think by my sophomore year of college, everyone had one. It was a giant Nokia and I thought I was super cool because I had a spongebob cover for it. Sorta like this:

I was 30 before I got my first cell phone ... DH still doesn't have one.

I was 21. 2001 right after 9/11. Because of my crazy busy schedule at school my parents couldn't reach me for two days. Day three they sent a cell phone.

I got once for Christmas when I was 16, with the stipulation that it would be taken away from me if I went over my minutes... which wasn't fair, because back then, your "minutes" was 90 a MONTH. Who gives a 16 year old a cell phone and tells them not to talk more than 90 minutes a MONTH?

My cell phone lasted exactly one month. And then I was grounded for 6 because my cell phone bill was something outrageous like $500. Oops??

I didn't get a cell phone again until I was 18, had a job and went off to college and could pay for it myself. I've had the same number since!

I think I was 19 or 20.

16....I think it was in '04.

I think 22.

I had just graduated high school...so '05.

25 I think? I was flying/travelling for work 75% of the time. . . can't remember if I had one before that!

I borrowed my parents' cell phone throughout high school, and got my own as an 18th birthday present.

16, when I started driving.

@MrsCB: Hahaha! My parents had one of those bag phones, too!

Add me to the list of people who had an old school Nokia phone; I was 19.

I think it was my first year of HS, so I was 13? I didn't even have minutes. Only texts!

@Ash: Well now I know who the other cool kid is on HB.

I got mine when I got my drivers license @ 16 years old

19, in college, in 1999! Mine was actually a pretty slim, small phone (Nokia, maybe?)

When my sister started driving at 17 we were given a phone to share in the car. Technically I was 15 but I was never allowed to touch it! lol!

It was a Nokia. That thing could be run over and still worked fine.