2 thoughts on “And I remember the first cellphones”
First cell phone I got was back in the late ’80’s. I turned it on one morning driving through Philadelphia to make a call. The first phone bill I got came in a giant manila envelope about 3/4 inches thick. It was a bill for over $10,000 and listed thousands of calls. Apparently that one time I turned it on the number got cloned by someone.
Thank fully they wrote it off.
The first cell phone–a phone not needing to be installed in a car or had a bag–was the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. For a while, I changed my signature for my e-mail on my cell phone to read “sent from my Motorola DynaTAC 8000X”.
I know a guy who got a car phone in the mid-80s. He kept upgrading and staying with the cell company, so he has had the same cell phone number for 40 years.
I have had the same number since ’98.
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First cell phone I got was back in the late ’80’s. I turned it on one morning driving through Philadelphia to make a call. The first phone bill I got came in a giant manila envelope about 3/4 inches thick. It was a bill for over $10,000 and listed thousands of calls. Apparently that one time I turned it on the number got cloned by someone.
Thank fully they wrote it off.
The first cell phone–a phone not needing to be installed in a car or had a bag–was the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. For a while, I changed my signature for my e-mail on my cell phone to read “sent from my Motorola DynaTAC 8000X”.
I know a guy who got a car phone in the mid-80s. He kept upgrading and staying with the cell company, so he has had the same cell phone number for 40 years.
I have had the same number since ’98.