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When did mobile phones take over lives?

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TrendyNannie6 Sun 03-May-20 15:55:14

I had one when they first came out can’t remember how many years ago, a big heavy Nokia resembling a brick well not quite a bit of an exaggeration but it was a heavy old thing, gold with a little aerial sticking up like a walkie talkie, I loved it though, very basic

gulligranny Sun 03-May-20 15:48:43

I'm re-reading my way through shelves of books I bought through various book clubs during the 1980s and 1990s - stuff by Joanna Trollope, Maeve Binchy, Penny Vincenzi, Ruth Rendell etc.

The thing that strikes me most is that not one of them so far mentions mobile phones! Which leads me to ask: what's your earliest memory of having one?