Buckshot Bear Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 How old were your grandkids when they wanted a mobile phone? How old were your grandkids when they got a mobile phone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 I think my grandson wanted one at 8. I think he got one at 12 or 13. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 My son wanted a computer when he was 9. Got him a Commodore 64. Remember those? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgavin Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 About 11 or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Lizard Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Lizard Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 Not my job for a cell phone…They need to learn to read my analog clock hanging on the wall.. Texas Lizard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Singin' Sue 71615 Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 15 hours ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: My son wanted a computer when he was 9. Got him a Commodore 64. Remember those? DOS??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 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: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 My granddaughter and grandson were both about 15, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Devil Dale Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgavin Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 7 hours ago, Singin' Sue 71615 said: DOS??? No, KERNAL. DOS was the IBM PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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