Not me, my grandparents.
18-year-old me when a virtual cat repeated what I said
Smartphones came out at a really weird time for me. I was too young to be able to afford one but too old for parents to think I needed anything more than a flip-phone. Meanwhile, kids 5 years younger than me were getting them by default once they started secondary school.
Managed to afford an iPod Touch eventually.
Kinda cool that your first one was one you procured for yourself though
You can be disappointed you didn’t get a smartphone while simultaneously not expecting one. Anyone who says different is too basic to have multiple feelings at once, or just an idiot.
The razor phone came out when I was in highschool, I didn’t like flip phones and when my parents decided to drop the land-line and go with a cheaper family phone plan I got a pretty simple brick that could play mp3s with a dedicated external speaker, and could tune into radio frequencies with headphones. I thought that was neat.
I got my first smartphone in 2013 or somewhere around there.