As for the Topic of the Day...
I think I got my first cell phone back in 1999. -Although it feels like I've had one for much, much longer than ten years.
However... I do remember buying two phones initially, one for me, one for Steve. And I bought them from a mail-order catalog - they were running a "Buy This Phone, Get This Phone Free" special - I think they were both Motorola models. Mine was a "clam-shell" - although the flip-cover was just a cover for the keypad (the keypad was not part of the "shell"), and Steve's was a one-piece model. The service was with Sprint, and I seem to recall jumping on the cellphone bandwagon right before I went on tour and/or took an out of town gig. -I did not want to deal with long-distance calling cards anymore.