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I never knew someone with an analog cellphone at the time, so that one isn't something I experienced. I was one of the first at my high school to have a PCS phone, and I remember that not all PCS phones could text.
Depending on what tech the carrier used, you either could text, or not. GSM phones came with the feature as standard, while CDMA and TDMA phones were distinctly lacking the feature for a long time. It's funny to me that the feature that made cellphones really explode with the younger generation (texting, aka SMS), wasn't even a universal feature when the PCS networks went live. Eventually we all switched to HSDPA, and eventually LTE which both had the feature.
Aah those were the days. Everything was slow and it was still great because the alternative was nothing.
Yeah I remember those days too. Hell my first phone was analog, but by then you could buy minutes. It was a flip phone and I buy the minutes as I needed them. My first phone that could text was the Nokia. You know one that couldn't ever break.
But my fondest memory was when I got my first phone that had some form of the web on it. That was still in the days when you paid for text messaging.