This one was mine, pretty but useless, didn’t even have Bluetooth! (Had an infrared port instead) I remember it having this silly game when you shoot up a cowboy from a cannon and the longer you fly and the more objects you hit the better score you get. My mum and I got so competitive playing it! (I low-key want to have another round now) This phone is still somewhere at my mum’s house, serving as a virtual cemetery of cute cat gifs and sparkly animations.

I present the Ericsson EH237 (1994). I was 20 and had already been in the work environment for 4 years before the real need for a phone. My first experience of a mobile was probably very late teens, I was working in London and the train was very delayed. It was in the days one 1 people on a carriage would have a phone and it was shared so people could call in and say they’d be late. However, when I borrowed it, I thought it was like my Dad’s where you had to pull the ariel up to make a call and pulled it clean off in front of a whole carriage of people. Mortified! He wasn’t to impressed either.

My first phone was PINK Motorola Razr. I was the coolest cat in school. Very Paris Hilton, very on trend! As Paris would say #ThatsHot!

I got it because a new girlfriend at the time said I should have one. She sent me a text message one night while I was watching rugby with friends, my first text. I took time to compose a reply properly and then she replied instantly to my horror! I then spent an entire evening having to respond to text messages properly with good grammar that were typed out letter by letter as was the style of the times. It ruined my evening, my friends mocked me, and I knew this whole texting thing would never catch on.

I had an Alcatel OneTouch – I remember thinking I was cool and different and no other friends had an Alcatel!

First phone from 1999 whilst in my final year at Uni. A Nokia 5110 with changeable cover (my choice was purple). Nobody sent texts as it took way to long. We actually used to CALL people! Obviously no internet on these old phones but we did have the very addictive game of snake!!

Motorola M3788e on the phone network Orange. It had the amazing ability of phone calls and text messages and nothing else. I think you could only have a maximum of 10 text messages on it at any one time. The choice of 11 ringtones was a dilema – what tune to blast out at the loudest volume as being silent was not cool! Everyone needed to know you were being called or getting a text message!

I am so old that this was my first phone! I had a friend whose dad was Scottish and spoke VERY slowly. By the time he had answered the phone with his standard: “S-o-u-t-h B-e-n-f-l-e-e-t S-e-v-e-n f-i-v-e t-h-r-e-e n-i-n-e f-i-v-e n-i-n-e” And then gone to get his son… My 2p had run out….

My first mobile phone was back in 1993, it was a sony, better known as the ‘Mars Bar’ phone! It was very weighty and you knew you had it in your handbag!

It’s a Motorola raza flip phone / in hot pink. My first phone bought from my first wages from working in a Christmas shop for 3 months. By February it had broke and I could only use the front screen to read texts. I did keep it for over a year though like that!

My first phone was the Sony Ericsson W810i—I recorded ringtones off the radio, played Snake nonstop, and took blind selfies with the back camera like a pro.

A Samsung Slider J700 in purple was my first phone. I remember being surprised with it the day before I started secondary school. I just remember thinking…. no more MSN for me!