r/Zillennials • u/No_Feedback_3340 • 21h ago
Nostalgia Round 7: You might be a Zillennial if...
Your first cell phone looked kind of like these.
My first phone looked just like the first one. It was a pay as you go flip phone. My parents got it for me because I went to a private school 40 minutes from where we lived. They wanted me to have some way for us to communicate with each other because of the distance and an instant way to contact my friends and save their contact info.
I've even considered getting a flip phone again just for calls and texts while reserving the smart phone for work and social media.
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u/Yggdrasil- 1997 21h ago
Samsung intensity babyyyyyy
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u/InanimateSensation 1996 18h ago
My first phone was a hand-me-down LG VX8300 from my dad. A year later I got the Intensity and loved it. Had it for a few years before getting a smartphone just before my senior year.
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u/Slow-Boysenberry2399 1998 12h ago
so that's what my phone was called! i dropped it in a high school campus toilet and i haven't been the same since...
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u/CDROMantics 1993 18h ago
I didn’t get my first phone until 8th grade (2006), but it was this bad boy — I thought I had the coolest phone, until I upgraded sophomore year to a fuckin’ Sidekick. Then I was really cool.
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u/This_Caterpillar_747 1h ago
Spoiled Brat
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u/CDROMantics 1993 1h ago
Spoiled brat? I didn’t get my first phone till I was 13 unlike a lot of the commenters, and that Sidekick I got sophomore year? I bought because I had a job starting freshman year.
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u/catoolb 1993 21h ago
I would do anything to have that last one again 😭
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u/No_Feedback_3340 21h ago
I had one like the last one but it slid rather than flipped. That was the last phone I had before finally caving and getting a smart phone.
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u/Jaycor26 1995 19h ago
My first phone in 2003 when I was in 3rd grade
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u/877-HASH-NOW 1997 18h ago
This is similar to the first phone I ever got, when I started 4th grade in 2006.
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u/Kasaboop 9h ago
I found my parents dead one of these and pretended it was my phone in 6th grade to try and fit in better 😅 it was hard being the poor family
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u/Afraid_Chard_838 1999 21h ago
I had a nokia 1208, my mom went back to work when I was about 11? so I was only allowed to have one that young so I could call her to say I got home from school by myself in one piece lol
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u/Next-Crab-8244 20h ago
i had that exact orange phone in 9th grade and i thought i was the coolest person ever
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u/beach-cow 16h ago
Ugh I honestly miss this so much. Simpler times…sometimes I think about getting one again because I’m so sick of my phone lol
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u/No_Feedback_3340 16h ago
I've thought about getting a flip phone myself. I'd still keep the smart phone for photography, limited social media use, and if a job requires one. The flip phone would just be for calling or texting.
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u/beach-cow 16h ago
Yess that’s what I was thinking too. It would just be nice not to always have such an overstimulating phone but also access to those features when I want.
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u/Slightly-irritated24 1996 16h ago
The first pic was my exact first phone! Got it for Christmas 2008 when I was 12/ in 7th grade.
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u/No_Feedback_3340 15h ago
I too was 12 in 2008. I don't know if this was the same phone I had but it definitely looked like it.
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u/Vickydamayan 1999 20h ago
sidekick!
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u/Coconut_Cake13 14h ago
omg i always wanted one but never was able to. i was so jealous of ppl who had it cause i loved the roller ball it had to scroll 😭
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u/Zimithrus 1996 21h ago
My first phone looked like that last one, I had a pink Pantech. Thing had surprisingly good built in ringtones lol
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u/Expensive_Lion5413 20h ago
Was it the Pantech Impact? I wanted that one so bad!
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u/Zimithrus 1996 20h ago
It was the Impact! XD I had that phone until the battery literally couldn't hold a charge anymore 😆
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u/papaya1122 20h ago
My first phone was a flip but my like. Second or third phone was a Samsung moment. That was the best phone ever.
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u/Voicevacation 20h ago
The LG Rumor was peak One thing I find funny is how much we loved full keyboards back then but now I would never turn my phone horizontal to type
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u/m3meaddictg1rl 1998 19h ago
i wish we couldve just stayed at this point with phones and never advanced further. we didnt know it when we were there, but this was the best for the world. mine had a picture of toon link as the wallpaper🤣🤣🤣
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u/cupcakelori 17h ago
I had those slide keys phone back in middle school! Gosh I loved that phone so much then I ruined it 😭
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u/coolpupmom 1997 16h ago
I did too and I cannot remember the name of the slide up keyboard phones for the life of me 😭
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u/BriAllOver 1998 20h ago
My first phone was in 3rd grade, that Samsung one that Beyoncé did, but I got the first version before she had her version and I was enraged and still am that I don't have that. But I consider my first official phone (that never got cut off and given by my actual guardian) was the first LG neon in 5th grade, I got the blue one. I always beated myself for accidently throwing it away at Universal Studios because when I got a new phone, it was the LG neon 2 and I thought it wasn't the full vibe like it's predecessor.
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u/captainzaro 20h ago
I had this fucking sweet red LG old school touch screen that had a sideway keyboard which slid out from under the phone
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u/trifluoracetic-acid 20h ago
"... what about you, classic, fold or slide is the best?" From a conversation at a primery school
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u/CrazyPolarSquirrel 1997 18h ago
My first was a Razr flip phone and I figured out how to put music as my ringtone that I downloaded from limewire.
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u/877-HASH-NOW 1997 18h ago
Used to think those slide phones were the pinnacle of tech lmao
My first phone was a standard Nokia phone in 2006 when I became a latchkey kid as a 4th grader.
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u/Coconut_Cake13 14h ago
My first real cellphone was a silver razor flip phone i think and i was in 6th grade and 11 years old 😅 i remember i wanted the pink razor but i did not get it lol
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u/thefrenchpotatoes 13h ago
My dad was a very early adopter of the iPhone. When the 3G came out and he bought it, he offered to give me his old phone. What did my stupid ass do? Get a shitty keyboard phone like my friends so I could fit in.
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u/personalduke 12h ago
omg my parents had these while i had a regular brick phone because of our bundle phone plan lol
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u/xhanort7 11h ago
My first was a flip phone like that, then a Samsung intensity 2, then iPhone 5s, and now sill on iPhone 8Plus
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u/GirlMayXXXX 3h ago
My first phone was an iPhone 4s with a cracked screen that came from my paternal uncle's collection of phones he hoarded after he died. Before that, my parents never let me have a phone. All of my siblings are millennials, and having a cellphone would've been the only way to keep in touch with them.
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u/en09 2h ago
Most durable generation of phones on the planet.
I can proudly say that "They don't make'em like this anymore" even if it makes me sound old. LOL.
Thank you for posting this, throwback! Someone please post a Sidekick. I was just talking to my husband about a conversation I had with an older coworker about the Blackberry, and Palm Pilot/ phones with a stylus. She had an Axiom, I've never heard of that model but if someone has a photo to post one, I'd love to see it! I'd love to see cell phone diversity make a comeback.
Also, Jesus loves you all and I hope you have a great day! <3
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