How old were your grandkids when they wanted a mobile phone?

[Buckshot Bear]

How old were your grandkids when they wanted a mobile phone?

 

How old were your grandkids when they got a mobile phone?

[Pat Riot]

I think my grandson wanted one at 8.

I think he got one at 12 or 13. 

[Utah Bob #35998]

My son wanted a computer when he was 9. Got him a Commodore 64. Remember those?

[Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619]

One grandson has just received his at 15. We have 12 grandkids, most of them now in their 20s. All of their folks were pretty conservative on the phone issue and waited until mid-teens to buy them; not 12 or 13. 

[Blackwater 53393]

Older grandson got his when he started high school and had to ride the bus. He was the first stop on the morning route and the last stop in the evening, so he was out the door at 6:15 and got home around 4:30.

 

Youngest got his when his mom and dad divorced.

[Alpo]

I have no idea. But a couple of years ago I was talking to various neighbor children about them. The little girls live behind me - 5, 7 and 10. I see what appears to be a cell phone in the hands of the middle child. I asked if it's real. Yes. I asked the older girl does she have a cell phone, and of course she does. I point to the five-year-old and ask about her, and her sisters tell me no, and I'm thinking that their parents at least have a little bit of sense when the 7-year-old tells me, "she kept throwing it on the street when she would get mad and she finally broke it".

 

Then the 10-year-old informs me that she got her first cell phone when she was five.

[bgavin]

About 11 or so.

[Texas Lizard]

14 hours ago, Utah Bob #35998 said:

My son wanted a computer when he was 9. Got him a Commodore 64. Remember those?

I owned one…Then move into big boy Apple…Never looked back….

 

Texas Lizard

[Texas Lizard]

Not my job for a cell phone…They need to learn to read my analog clock hanging on the wall..

 

Texas Lizard

[Singin' Sue 71615]

15 hours ago, Utah Bob #35998 said:

My son wanted a computer when he was 9. Got him a Commodore 64. Remember those?

DOS???

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

I'd say that most of us were WELL in to adulthood before we had them, (I got my first at 33). How DID we get through childhood without them!?!? Something like this:

[Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619]

I got my first smartphone 4 months ago, at age 74, when my trusty workhorse flip phone of many years would no longer take a charge.

 

I will say I do like it.

[Rye Miles #13621]

My granddaughter and grandson  were both about 15, 

[Dusty Devil Dale]

4 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

I'd say that most of us were WELL in to adulthood before we had them, (I got my first at 33). How DID we get through childhood without them!?!? Something like this:

Boy did I miss that 3 watt bag phone during the years when the provider networks didn't have good tower coverage.  

[bgavin]

7 hours ago, Singin' Sue 71615 said:

DOS???

No, KERNAL.
DOS was the IBM PC.

[watab kid]

about two , thankfully their parents werent inclined to indulge the older had to wait till their teens , so far the younger ones are still being told that