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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

18-year-old me when a virtual cat repeated what I said

Smartphones came out at a really weird time for me. I was too young to be able to afford one but too old for parents to think I needed anything more than a flip-phone. Meanwhile, kids 5 years younger than me were getting them by default once they started secondary school.

Managed to afford an iPod Touch eventually.

Edit: Not saying my parents owed me a smartphone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

You can be disappointed you didn't get a smartphone while simultaneously not expecting one. Anyone who says different is too basic to have multiple feelings at once, or just an idiot.

The razor phone came out when I was in highschool, I didn't like flip phones and when my parents decided to drop the land-line and go with a cheaper family phone plan I got a pretty simple brick that could play mp3s with a dedicated external speaker, and could tune into radio frequencies with headphones. I thought that was neat.

I got my first smartphone in 2013 or somewhere around there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I had my first (sort of) smartphone when I was 8. It was just €50 at Tesco, so yeah, I could save up for it.

Sort of - it was actually a 7" Android tablet with 3G modem that I used as a phone full-time. I still have the screen from it. I can't believe how small that feels now. I mean, my current phone has a 6.7" screen, albeit not at 16:9. Still, I remember it feeling huge.
I guess I was just ahead of time.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago

Kinda cool that your first one was one you procured for yourself though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Not me, my grandparents.