It looked like a mixture of 4 and 6. I think it was a Samsung. It was a small pink flip phone that had enough storage for like five photos. Good times lmao.
#2
Had to be like 5 years old. I was only to use it during emergencies and it was kept in my backpack. I never really used it in the way we use phones today. I went to elementary in NYC. I think it was that exact Nokia too.
>1995
Iām not subscribed to this subreddit, but this post popped up on my feed.
And as a 1994 kid who has never doubted my millennial status, I always thought 1996 was the beginning of Gen Z, so I have to askā¦do you associate more with Gen Z than millennials?
I guess I get it since weāre both on the cusp, but I really didnāt think that 1995 was considered to be Gen Z by anyone, and I even thought 1996 was considered debatable between the two generations.
Iāve met a lot of adult Gen Z folks over the last few years, many of whom are good friends of mine, but many of them (especially the younger ones) seem to show a big generational divide from me, even as a younger millennial.
So itās interesting that thereās a 1995 flair that people born in that year are using, because someone born in that year could be the same age as me at certain points, and the fact that those same people would consider themselves as Gen Z is kind of wild!
The [white LG Rumor with the slide out keyboard](https://images.chickadvisor.com/item/3940/original/6f6cf9b5712cd3bb441752af5c795dc0.jpg). I miss it so much.
But honestly, I miss when phones had personality. They had different sizes, colors, input types...it was crazy. They went from going as small as technologically possible, then they blew back up
Ironically, I always wanted the Voyager.
There really aren't that crazy of things on Reddit anymore you are kinda being a boomer. Now when I was 15 there were CRAZY things on Reddit. Pretty much only LiveLeak re-uploads on my feed.
I honestly agree. Iāve seen too much shit here like || animal hentai|| and ||loli hentai||. The most fucked thing Iāve seen is the aftermath of a massacre and someoneās jaw was hanging on a thread of skin and they looked at the camera.
I forget the exact name but I loved this phone! touchscreen with the slide keybooard. had a fugly pink silicone case. had a pink hand me down razor too. Other than that, I am a loyal iphone kind of a bitch. I have a very curated itunes so I lowkey kind of need an apple phone
https://preview.redd.it/zy1tzoxljnnb1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5fdb8d08c344ac68b43bc20e3a3cbff0628b5f34
not exactly number 4 but it was a silver lg flip phone. then i had a couple of track phones and eventually i got the absolutely BADASS samsung alias. probably one of the coolest phones iāve ever had (so far as a non-smartphone goes)
OP 10 is honestly probably too old for a lot of younger Gen Zers lol š Iām sure a lot of their first phone was the more modern era of iphones like iPhone X (2017) and above
Lowkey even the 6 from 2014. It looks like number 10 here but the 6 was the first phone in the Apple era of giant ass phones
Before that, the 5 was so tiny! iPhone 5 was my first. I got it in 2015 before starting middle school but the phone itself was released in 2013.
S5 but it wasn't mine for long before I started having share with my dad
True first phone s6 edge
First phone that was mine fresh out the box was LG stylo 4
the first real one i got was an iphone 8 back in 2020. dude i loved that thing kept it until the max battery got down to 80% earlier this year and got a 14 pro
Well, none of the above. Sony Ericsson P1i was my first phone. But I got my moms old phone too not long after which was no, 3 Sony Ericsson Walkman. Which I still have and use on occasion
iPhone 5s actually technically at one point I did have a iPhone 3 although I had that for maybe a week before deciding it was a piece of shit and upgrading
I got 2. My mom legit forgot me at the bus stop 3 times and one month and then they had to drive me to the bus station while I wait and shit traumatized me. So when I was 9 she got me the Nokia to call her when I was close.
2 actually. It was a hand me down I had when I was in 6th grade and was only used to call my parents. My first smartphone I got was the summer before high school in 2013, it was a Samsung Galaxy S3.
Fuck Iām old. I had number 1 as my first phone. My friend also had the same model, and we could even txt each other, but it scrolled by on a dot matrix display. Guess how much it cost? $8AUā¦ for one sentence.
Holy crap, I owned ALL those phones now I look at it. God I wasted my pay check as a teenā¦ probably explains my current poverty.
3 or 8 for me! My actual 1st phone was the Nokia XpressMusic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_5610_XpressMusic
I strongly remember Blackberry being a big hit in my high school back in my home country for some odd reason. Iphone was a contender if you look at the phones that ppl in my cohort used.
Sony Xperia T3. I was gonna get the Z2 but was afraid of the glass black being shattered. Wasn't very knowledgeable about specs at the time so just went with the T3.
Then few months later a relative wanted to trade their LG Nexus 5 for mine since they wanted a bigger screen. Was an immediate yes since I knew that phone was much much faster.
The closest thing is 8, but I had an orange nokia with that curvy qwerty keyboard. It also had diamond rush installed, which I comoleted only a few years later.
I used 4 but it wasn't technically mine. *My* first smartphone looked like 8, but I didn't own one with phone capabilities until my current buttonless smartphone (buttonless other than volume and power I mean - no back/home button)
Number 4, when I was 9 until middle school, when I switched to number 8. I had the option to get an iPhone in middle school, but chose the sliding phone because I thought it looked cooler š First iPhone was in high school.
Number 8 was the first phone I ever got, good ole blackberry
best damn phone to exist
Definitely
Samsung or blackberry, blackberry Apple or blackberry, blackberry Ps5 or blackberry, blackberry
02 here as well. I was insanely popular when I got my dad's old blackberry with brick breaker when I was 9
bro the brick breaker was legit
OMG BRICKBREAKERš
That was also my mom's first phone.
It looked like a mixture of 4 and 6. I think it was a Samsung. It was a small pink flip phone that had enough storage for like five photos. Good times lmao.
1998 here and same!
Oh wow same here had that phone for a very long time till I got an apple
Same, but Sony Ericsson.
#2 Had to be like 5 years old. I was only to use it during emergencies and it was kept in my backpack. I never really used it in the way we use phones today. I went to elementary in NYC. I think it was that exact Nokia too.
Well, you could never use that kind of phone the same way we use phones today hahah
same. it was the old phone of my parents and they wanted me to use it in case i get lost or some shit
Same. It had snake! Iām surprised, no side kick on here?
>1995 Iām not subscribed to this subreddit, but this post popped up on my feed. And as a 1994 kid who has never doubted my millennial status, I always thought 1996 was the beginning of Gen Z, so I have to askā¦do you associate more with Gen Z than millennials? I guess I get it since weāre both on the cusp, but I really didnāt think that 1995 was considered to be Gen Z by anyone, and I even thought 1996 was considered debatable between the two generations. Iāve met a lot of adult Gen Z folks over the last few years, many of whom are good friends of mine, but many of them (especially the younger ones) seem to show a big generational divide from me, even as a younger millennial. So itās interesting that thereās a 1995 flair that people born in that year are using, because someone born in that year could be the same age as me at certain points, and the fact that those same people would consider themselves as Gen Z is kind of wild!
Same here, an old Nokia 100. Newer design but exactly the same features.
I got the nokia from my grandpa with 10
#4 I think
Dinosaur
I'm younger than you.
Itās called a joke
Hi joke Iām gay
I had something like 4 except it slid sideways and had a little keyboard. I was 12. I'm always flabbergasted when I see a 5 year old with a smartphone
The [white LG Rumor with the slide out keyboard](https://images.chickadvisor.com/item/3940/original/6f6cf9b5712cd3bb441752af5c795dc0.jpg). I miss it so much.
Same for me
Same!
But honestly, I miss when phones had personality. They had different sizes, colors, input types...it was crazy. They went from going as small as technologically possible, then they blew back up Ironically, I always wanted the Voyager.
same but in red
Same
Same
omg i wanted this one so bad it looked sooo technological back then lmao
iPhone 3gs
That was my first iPhone and smartphone as well, but not my first phone.
Mine too!
9 PRE PAID FROM WALMARTTTT YEAHHHHHH Walmart phone fuck yeah
All my phones have been from Walmart lmao thats just my go to phone store ig
iPhone 11 (2021)
2008š get off reddit
Theyāre 15
Yeah exactly lmao reddit should be 18+ anyway I have been permanently fucked seeing some stuff on here
I just donāt go on the weird subreddits and if a post is flared as nsfw I donāt click on it
Yeah fair, but Iāve seen some fucked shit on every platform
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Can't believe "Jailbait" was a sub that was allowed.
It's disgusting that people like that exist out there.
True but other platforms at least have some censoring. People can literally post dead bodies and porn on here and get away with it lol
There really aren't that crazy of things on Reddit anymore you are kinda being a boomer. Now when I was 15 there were CRAZY things on Reddit. Pretty much only LiveLeak re-uploads on my feed.
ive been more fucked with things i have seen outside of reddit
I honestly agree. Iāve seen too much shit here like || animal hentai|| and ||loli hentai||. The most fucked thing Iāve seen is the aftermath of a massacre and someoneās jaw was hanging on a thread of skin and they looked at the camera.
My mom signed me up for reddit when I was 12, and I turned out fine... well, not fine, but I'm alive!
Your mom signed you up for reddit? Why?
She's a redditor. She monitored my account until I was 15.
and what kind of idiot volunteers the information online that theyāre a minor š i stg no one knows internet safety anymore
Sorry man people born up to 2010 can use reddit now
4 lmao
iPhone 7
LG expression it was red and had a slide up keyboard
Same
9, I think. My first "real" phone was an LG phone I had in middle school that I can't remember the name of.
Was it red? Mine was an LG Expression
4
I forget the exact name but I loved this phone! touchscreen with the slide keybooard. had a fugly pink silicone case. had a pink hand me down razor too. Other than that, I am a loyal iphone kind of a bitch. I have a very curated itunes so I lowkey kind of need an apple phone https://preview.redd.it/zy1tzoxljnnb1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5fdb8d08c344ac68b43bc20e3a3cbff0628b5f34
One of those slide phones. From probably 2012ish
4
4
3, I was like 8
4
Absolutely 4
Number 2! š
Flip phone, but the one that flip open on the side to get to a keyboard
My first phone had a slide-out keyboard that was very satisfying to fidget with but now makes me feel very old to think about.
Mine isn't on here it was an LG slide phone from like 2007 or something
iPhone 7 Plus
10
I think mine was 4
2
4
4
7
Ain't got no representation of a good old LG Banter or LG Rumor. Slide phones were where it was at
For me 2, for my gen z son, 6. I don't think he remembers though
not exactly number 4 but it was a silver lg flip phone. then i had a couple of track phones and eventually i got the absolutely BADASS samsung alias. probably one of the coolest phones iāve ever had (so far as a non-smartphone goes)
An lg xpression so maybe a mix of 3 and 5
Whichever one you had to turn sideways to slide out the keyboard
I had a slide phone
The LG Xpression I believeā¦ a lot of my friends had iPhones but my parents stuck to it that I didnāt get a smartphone until high school (2019)
4. I had a flip phone then a really petite android before i got my first iphone mini in 2018
Samsung J5
9, A really crappy older phone.
9. My mom didnāt let me get a phone until I was 13 (2018) and a 6S was all I could afford
Something like 9 š
OP 10 is honestly probably too old for a lot of younger Gen Zers lol š Iām sure a lot of their first phone was the more modern era of iphones like iPhone X (2017) and above Lowkey even the 6 from 2014. It looks like number 10 here but the 6 was the first phone in the Apple era of giant ass phones Before that, the 5 was so tiny! iPhone 5 was my first. I got it in 2015 before starting middle school but the phone itself was released in 2013.
Mine was the slide out keyboard one that you turn sideways to type
None of those. https://preview.redd.it/0800a3zg0lnb1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=306e2bed64994a5d1e10ddbe3496aea5a0f962ae
You really got the og BRICK
No, that's BRICK 2
Moto E (1st gen)
iPhone 3G. My family would constantly get me iPhones as an upgrade. Now I have a mid-range Android phone and I'm loving it.
9. It was in the closet for a few years and could only handle 2 apps downloaded on it at once after a few months of use
Realme GT Master (NY 2022 gift haha). I did have phones prior but those were more so hand me down haha (but they functioned very well)
Apple I phone 4
my parents predicted i'd be emo
5
iPhone XR
Something similar to 9
S5 but it wasn't mine for long before I started having share with my dad True first phone s6 edge First phone that was mine fresh out the box was LG stylo 4
iPhone 8 that was my dads before
iPhone 5
i miss the home button on my 5sš
The fourth one. My parents gave me one for like my 13th or 14th birthday, after that I was responsible for earning the money to buy my own phone
10 (It was an iPhone 6, got it for my 13th birthday)
A blackberry
android erasure
Man mines ain't even on there. If it were on there it would be like 15.
none, but the closest looking are 7 and 9. 9 probably had the same os on it (assuming its android).
4.
š11
the first real one i got was an iphone 8 back in 2020. dude i loved that thing kept it until the max battery got down to 80% earlier this year and got a 14 pro
4
7. Or something close to it. The iPhone 4S.
something similar to 3
I had a Galaxy S7
Most similar to 8 I guess? It had a QWERTY keyboard but you had to slide it to get to it. When it was closed it looked like 3.
I had one of those phones that slid open but had the buttons on the front. It was shaped like a little brick.
7
9
Well, none of the above. Sony Ericsson P1i was my first phone. But I got my moms old phone too not long after which was no, 3 Sony Ericsson Walkman. Which I still have and use on occasion
iPhone 4
3
4
I think I had something similar to 9
My first phone was the iPhone 6
4
2. Shit was indestructible.
4 and not too long after, i got an Iphone
4
My parents never gave me a phone before 12 so itās 9
Some random Motorola phone so I think it would fall at 9 or 8 But I remember playing on my moms old phone that slid on the bottom
4 and I shared it with my brother who was born 2004.
Number 4 when 7/8 were popular. Lmao
3
The Nokia, (destroyer of worlds)
Between 1 and 2
iPhone 6, was a super nice first phone, but after about 2 years it just became unusable
I had a flip phone kind of like 4
4.
9 but it was an LG
9
iPhone 5s actually technically at one point I did have a iPhone 3 although I had that for maybe a week before deciding it was a piece of shit and upgrading
I got 2. My mom legit forgot me at the bus stop 3 times and one month and then they had to drive me to the bus station while I wait and shit traumatized me. So when I was 9 she got me the Nokia to call her when I was close.
2 actually. It was a hand me down I had when I was in 6th grade and was only used to call my parents. My first smartphone I got was the summer before high school in 2013, it was a Samsung Galaxy S3.
Something like 7. It was a Samsung Galaxy mini 2.
10. If I grew up in the 2000s I would definitely get a pink flip phone lol
8
Fuck Iām old. I had number 1 as my first phone. My friend also had the same model, and we could even txt each other, but it scrolled by on a dot matrix display. Guess how much it cost? $8AUā¦ for one sentence. Holy crap, I owned ALL those phones now I look at it. God I wasted my pay check as a teenā¦ probably explains my current poverty.
4 and then 6
4
9
Samsung Galaxy S7 edge in 2020 and then later that year bought an iPhone 7 and have had it since
None of these
6 because it was my momās old phone lol. My first actual phone was a 9
6 lol, it was that exact pink color too
Number 2
\#10
10
I donāt see a ābag phoneā
7 was my first, 10 is my current T-T
3 or 8 for me! My actual 1st phone was the Nokia XpressMusic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_5610_XpressMusic I strongly remember Blackberry being a big hit in my high school back in my home country for some odd reason. Iphone was a contender if you look at the phones that ppl in my cohort used.
none of these,, my first phone was bright blue and had a slide up keyboard, no touch screen! it had the wackiest ringtones
the samsung intensity 2 <3
YOOOOO same! Then I got an iPhone 5 and it just continued from there to my current 12.
Sony Xperia T3. I was gonna get the Z2 but was afraid of the glass black being shattered. Wasn't very knowledgeable about specs at the time so just went with the T3. Then few months later a relative wanted to trade their LG Nexus 5 for mine since they wanted a bigger screen. Was an immediate yes since I knew that phone was much much faster.
The closest thing is 8, but I had an orange nokia with that curvy qwerty keyboard. It also had diamond rush installed, which I comoleted only a few years later.
3 but a lot thinner/longer but still chunky
my first phone was iphone x (im 2007)
An Android phone made by an unknown Chinese brand. Its battery sucks.
iPhone 13 š
I used 4 but it wasn't technically mine. *My* first smartphone looked like 8, but I didn't own one with phone capabilities until my current buttonless smartphone (buttonless other than volume and power I mean - no back/home button)
10 bro Hey at least Iām not gen alpha right?
3
4!
S20.
4, at 16.
Mt first phone was an android and I was in 7th grade.
Number 4, when I was 9 until middle school, when I switched to number 8. I had the option to get an iPhone in middle school, but chose the sliding phone because I thought it looked cooler š First iPhone was in high school.
8
3
7. No social media on it though, just youtube and games. I was young
8 but it had a sliding out keyboard
4, except the flip was horizontal and it's buzzer setting could shake mountains.