BlackBerry Cool readers have the opportunity to get a nice discount on a BlackBerry stand accessory as well as we are giving away 20 free units for 20 lucky readers.
The New MobileRiser stands up your cell phone, iPhone, iPod or other mobile devices for viewing at a convenient 75°viewing angle. Easily stand up any mobile device. So thin you won’t even know it’s there. Watch movies on your device or just see who’s calling faster.
For a limited time, BlackBerry Cool readers get a $1.00 discount taking the price to $3.95.
To win a free MobileRiser, comment and tell us about the first mobile phone you ever owned.
I had a car phone that could not be removed from the car. It was mobile in that it was outside the home, but it was corded, and had a power pack, like the first wireless phones. I believe it was an AT&T phone.
My 1st mobile phone was actually a bag phone for the car. The 1st truly mobile phone I owned was the original big chunky Nokia.
The first cell phone I had was installed in my Lincoln Town car; I forget the cell provider, all I know they were large but aborbed by one of the current giants. To get it set up, the cell phone tech girl had to come to my house! Suprisingly, it had good reception but was very expensive to operate!!!
My first phone was a Motorola StarTac… loved how small they were. Not that they got much smaller after that anyway.
My first cellphone was and is a BB Curve 8330. I have never had any cellphone, never learned computers,never an email, am over 50, so you can imagine what a feat it was for me. It has at times been frustrating (I understand wanting to throw it out the window) but also very rewarding, like when my husband says, “You just can’t do that on a Blackberry”. I was bound and determined and eventually would succeed beyond even my expectaions.
I would love to have the little stand for my husbands 8830. His cardboard stand has been stolen!
My first phone was a Nokia 8290…a great little phone
My first phone was the Telus Motorola Flip, 1995-1996 era… Cost about $5 for every call you made back then!
That would be StarTak (if I got the name right).
That was one awesome cell phone when it came out.
My first cell phone was back in 1998. It was a nokia with GTE! I was so proud of myself being able to afford one! I was still in school at that time. I had the phone with me 24/7! It didn’t have the capiblity for the internet yet. But I received phone calls awhile on the go!when I was playing a tennis match, I still place it in my pocket! I didn’t get caught for that!
Just loved my first phone!
I got my first phone in 1999 when I started college. Sprint had just started family plans and my mom and I each got one so we could keep in touch during the day. She was going to school in town on another campus and I had the car, so I had to be be reachable. The phone is the only one I ever had that used 4 digit dialing. I feature I loved. All I had to do was dial the last four numbers of any number in my address book, and it would dial. I’m a geek, and I remember most numbers anyways and it was always easier and quicker than opening the address book. I have never seen that feature since.
ps. I dropped this phone in the road in a snow storm and ran over it as I drove away. Two hours later I realized what happened, went back and found the phone in a pile of slush all beat up. I brought it home dried it out and it still worked. They really don’t make ‘em like they used to.
My first “cell” phone was a Oki bag phone back in 1992 I believe. I had 30 precious minutes per month and paid about $50/month. I was quite high tech back then!!
Bob
My first ever phone was a sony ericsson t300. I still hv it and use it to this day when I need an expendable phone (good thing it hasn’t broken yet!). 128×96 display 256 colors, all awesome!
My first cellphone was a motorola “bagphone”. It was a “hoot”. Iwas so relievedd when handhelds were released that I probably was one of the first to get one.
think i was 5yr old. you know the kind: a string and two soup cans. how we use to dream of un-tethered communication.
My first was a prepaid Philips phone – can’t remember the model, and my first pda was a Toshiba. Now, my BB Curve can do it all! A stand sure would be helpful, though.
My very first phone was the 7100T Blackberry and it was love at first. I will never own anything else but a Blackberry. Once you go Blackberry you never go backberry!
I had the first nokia phone that had interchangeable faceplates. I would share it with my bro and sis and when it was our turn to use it we would put our own cover on it so it felt like our own phone. The number used I still use to this day so I have had it for 13 yrs. Memories
My first one was a bag phone,back in 1995, and it was on 360, which then became Altell. It was huge, and quiet and although it said you could take it with you, wherever, it didn’t hold a charge long enough to go anywhere by right inside to plug it back in.
My First cellphone was a Motorola. I (and everyone else I knew) called it a brick phone. It was huge! It was beige, had a stiff, thick antenna…It fit nicely in a briefcase (if you didn’t have much in there!). I used it during my stint of working in refineries because it was considered an intrinsically safe phone. Service was expensive…something like $50 per month and then there were the per minute charges…Peak, off peak and so forth! Certainly not as affordable as right now!
My first phone was a Nokia. Very big and heavy , but I used to take it with me everywhere,,,,it doens’t use GSM system, it used the system call TELELINE in SPAIN, with more signal in the high mountains, but without the capability to transfer data,
The first cell I had was one of the large candy-bar Nokia’s in 1996 that I bought for my business. It was used heavily and luckily I could write it off as a business expense. It was one of the first “small” phones in this form factor. I remember the pull out antenna would get bent all the time. Being analog I had to charge it almost everyday. After having that phone for about 2 years, I had a digital Nokia, smaller in size and longer battery life. Shortly after getting that phone in 1998 I also started using one of the first data only BB, the 950, that was like a pager. It operated on the Cantel AT&T (Rogers) Mobitex network. It had 2MB of RAM and was powered by a single AA battery that lasted at least 2 weeks. Shortly after getting it, a text only web browser was released for it allowing you to read 4 lines of text at a time! I’ve had almost every model of BB since then.
My first cellphone was and is a BB Curve 8330. I have never had any cellphone, never learned computers,never an email, am over 50, so you can imagine what a feat it was for me. It has at times been frustrating (I understand wanting to throw it out the window) but also very rewarding, like when my husband says, “You just can’t do that on a Blackberry”. I was bound and determined and eventually would succeed beyond even my expectaions.I would love to have the little stand for my husbands 8830. His cardboard stand has been stolen!
My first cellphone was and is a BB Curve 8330. I have never had any cellphone, never learned computers,never an email, am over 50, so you can imagine what a feat it was for me. It has at times been frustrating (I understand wanting to throw it out the window) but also very rewarding, like when my husband says, “You just can’t do that on a Blackberry”. I was bound and determined and eventually would succeed beyond even my expectaions.I would love to have the little stand for my husbands 8830. His cardboard stand has been stolen!
PS this is dbl posted cause I had entered a wrong email address. Please omit POST 5.
was a huge thing bigger than a shoe
I believe it was Siemens C35. Beautiful work of art! I think I will buy one of those just to keep for future generations…
My first phone was 1 cent with a 2 year contract from verizon. It was a big and ugly flip phone. It had an atena on it that you had to pull up for a clear connection. It reminded me of a walkie talkie. I was happy to have a cell phone but I hated how it looked. That was my first and last ugly phone.
My first phone was a pretty lame Nokia…I’m not super cell phone literate, but I’m trying.
My first mobile phone was a Motorola flip phone and it was HUGE and made of plastic with this big antenna! A friend of mine gave it to me, it was horrible! Haha…
My first phone was a Nokia back in 1992ish. I was a single mom going back to college while my little ones were in nursery school. And even though I had a pager, I had to cross a big bridge to go to school and was scared to death of being stuck on the other side with no way to reach their school. So I sucked up the cost and and probably never even used minutes on it most months. They are still the biggest reason I have a cell. Texting to one in Europe and trading pictures of my grandson with the other!
My first cell phone was the startac. It was the latest and hippes phone then.
Ahhhh….you always remember your first one! A “Walker Transpak” she was. Beauty in a 35 pound bag with a shoulder strap. Always willing to go everywhere and came at a cost of only $2500. Lead gel batteries and an optional suction cup mount antenna, what a babe! Used her for two years then the Motorola “Brick” caught my eye for only $900. Ahhhhh, the memories. Now look where we are today with a Blackberry 8820. Thanks, Boomer.
Samsung C35. Lovely piece
I’ll never forget my first phone, you know why? Because I paid a fortune for it, extended warranty and all. It was the Motorola StarTac 7797. $450 on a 2yr contract that thing cost me. I don’t know why in the world anyone would pay that much for such a garbage phone, but I did. Go figure. Not to mention the outrageous bills I got month after month for almost a year and a half till I decided to jump ship. Ah yes, good times…
Hello Kyle! When would we know if we won the mobile riser?
The first cell phone I ever owned was an LG flip phone. I had these huge squishy buttons and and little screen, with no text messaging or anything. The phone was whack! But what else can you expect a twelve year old to bribe their parents to get?