💬 What was your first phone? Mine could survive being thrown at a wall

I was looking at old phone pictures last night, the early brick ones with tiny screens and antennas. My father had a huge Motorola in the 90s. It was so heavy that my mother called it his dumbbell. He kept it in a leather case on his belt and answered it like he was an important man. I remember being scared to touch it. I was maybe 7 and thought it might shock me. My first phone was a basic Nokia in Class 11. The battery lasted nearly a week. It survived being dropped on the road, down the stairs and once into a drain by my cousin. I washed it, dried it in the sun for a day, and it still worked. Try that with a phone today. The only game I cared about was Snake. I got a really long snake and my teacher confiscated it. Phones then were just for calling and texting. Now I use mine for banking, maps, photos and work. A cracked screen today means a repair shop visit and a week without my phone. Back then you just kept using it with a crack, and it was fine. I know phones are better now. I still miss one thing, which was a battery that never worried me. What was your first phone, and do you remember what it cost your family back then? Mine was a hand me down from my uncle, so mine was free, which I loved. Does anyone still have theirs? I'm thinking of digging mine out to see if it switches on. If it does, I'll let you know. If it doesn't, I'll pretend I never asked.

My first phone cost around three thousand rupees back when that felt like a significant purchase for a teenager to save up for.

Cracked my current phone's screen within the first month just setting it down slightly wrong on a table corner, something that would have been unthinkable with my old Nokia surviving actual drops onto concrete without a scratch. Trade off for all these newer features feels real some days, especially replacing screen protectors every few months now compared to never worrying about it back then at all.

Mine was a hand me down Sony Ericsson from my older brother, remember being obsessed with a bowling mini game on it during long car rides since Snake never quite grabbed me the same way everyone else seemed to love it. Screen cracked once after a bad fall and somehow still worked perfectly fine for another full year afterward without any real issue at all.

My father's work phone was a Nokia brick, and it did work as a doorstop. He used it for that once. It sat on the kitchen counter and my mother kept moving it to wipe the shelf. The battery lasted close to 2 weeks on standby, I remember that. Nobody worried about charging it. I can't go 2 days without plugging mine in now, and mine is way smarter.