That makes me want to find at least a google picture of my first cell phone. It would have been 1996 and I'm pretty sure it was Motorola with a flip open microphone (but not quite a flip phone by today's standards). It had a huge trapezoidal battery on the back and I remember needing a different purse to carry it around. My friend had a Nokia stick phone and we all thought it was the best thing ever invented. Of course that phone was TINY compared to the giant one my mom had previously, which wikipedia tells me was a startac (the huge beige thing where you had to remove the battery to hook it up to the cig lighter to power it). I'm having surprising trouble finding it though. I wish I still had the phone itself. Would be interesting to compare it to the rest of my phones. I've only had 4 phones since 1996.