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The Mobile Phones of My Past, Present, and Future

One of my favorite things to do while battling insomnia is to make lists. Endless, pointless lists. Last night I did a mental rundown of all the cell phones I've had since my first purchase during my freshmen year in college in 1999. (Before then was pagers. Having access to Korean import stores, I had some sweet pagers - ones that always made my high school peers green with envy. Now, kids don't even know what pagers are.) Can you believe that I have owned TEN ELEVEN different phones since then? Nokia 6190purchased in 1999, carrier: AT&T My very first cell phone. Back in 1999, not too many people in my freshmen class had cell phones and if they did, almost all had the Nokia...

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