[DISCUSSION] What's the first phone you've ever owned? - General Topics

Thought it would be ammusing to know how far we've all come along to get to this lovely os we call android today.
Post your first phone you ever owned. Hell post em all for all I care. Let the ammusement begin!
My very first phone was a motorola n95, then went to a nokia. Can't remember the name (old cheap phone).
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MOTO RAZR still beats my G2

Let's see...
I had a damn beeper for a while. They always say it's drug dealers that have 'em but it works both ways. ;^)
My first cellular phone was a Nokia with a pea soup colored screen.
A Sony Ericcson phone that was tiny with a color screen and a camera.
My aesthetic favorite, a pink Motorola Razr with flowers etched into it. I got a ton of crap for it, which I always thought was funny. "My phone is totally an expression of my masculinity, bra!"
Had a Blackberry for a month which got me my first taste of push emails. Then...
G1, baby! Mind blowing! Totally bricked it! Within an hour, I went to the store to try again with...
MyTouch 3G Slide. Enough like my G1 to keep me happy and my first battle with Sense UI. (Gross.)
HD2. Easy to run many different builds on but screen freezes and data drops made it a pain. (No, I never really used WinMo. Tried it. Hated it.)
G2. Back to basics. Love it.

Rofl pink razr. Classic.
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My first phone came back in 2003 with the Motorola T720...
Flip phone and a color screen?!?

Philips Diga

Kyocera 2135

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Baby Ericsson Flip (GF768) in about '98 I think. One line display!
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Had a beeper for a couple years then the first phone was a motorola star tac. Still the best phone I ever had.
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Motor razr
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To think how cell phones evolved. I can imagine in another 10 years what we will have at the palm of our hands. Anyone remember those huge saved by the bell phones? Lmao
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Can you guess my first cellphone?

Let's see.. had a old school nokia with the cool faceplates.. loved that back in the day. Really durable phone for sure, moved to the tiny samsung camera flip phone with lil antennea.. then to a samsung t809 I think it was, was a slider with camera that swiveled.. loved this phone to death.. had it till battery gave out, moved to nokia music express slider.. pos screen cracked in a week, so that sucked.. got a samsung blast after that.. pos. Then bb pearl.. pos. Then got a tmobile shadow, loved that phone. Still do, let my friend use that bad boy. Then got a mytouch3g. The first version.. got a taste of android and have been hooked since, then got a cliq for a tiny bit. Now I'm on my G2... best phone ever for my needs as a 21yr old.. plus.. first nokia I had when I was in 4th grade..
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Motorola microtac ultra lite and my sister had a motorola dpc-550 circa 1993/94
(first pic is the ultra lite, except mine was light gray with green digits cause it was on bell atlantic, the second pic is the dpc-550, which was also light gray with green digits cause it was BAM)
I still have a microtac ELITE and a second gen startac (green lcd display and contacts for a fat piggy back battery) in my desk drawer of old **** at work. See the third attached pic for actual proof that I still have them, took that a couple weeks ago to mess with my boss.
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First phone was a nokia, don't remember the name but you could change the back and stuff than I had a motorola RIZR I think its called it was the slide one, then got a behold which was alright, lost it got a behold II (first android phone), and now I'm happy with my G2
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Nokia 5110 on sw bell I think..

The G2. Just turned 15 ^_^
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My first phone was the HTC SHADOW w/ WM. Love it
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ostinq said:
Nokia 5110 on sw bell I think..
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Rofl that thing looks like a house phone
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Are you guys happy with the MT4G?

Are you guys happy with the mt4g or wishing you had got the g2?
Or for people that have switched from the g2 to the mt4g are you guys happy or regreting it?
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I am extremely happy. There is not one moment that goes by that I regret buying it and would not change over to the G2.
I bought the MT4G on launch day, returned it for a G2, and the very next day went and got the exact same MT4G back... The hinge on that G2 should never have made it beyond quality control...
Mt4g ftw!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1:d
JWhipple said:
I bought the MT4G on launch day, returned it for a G2, and the very next day went and got the exact same MT4G back... The hinge on that G2 should never have made it beyond quality control...
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My thoughts exactly.. Lol
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I had 2 different G2's and then I switched to the MT4G. The MT4G is a much better device if you don't need the keyboard which many people now don't as with newer input methods like swipe the touch screen is just as good if not better than the hard keyboard. The G2 hinges were pathetic. The MT4G with Front camera, more RAM and more options is just better. The build quality is also very good.
I love this phone. I had the G2 and returned it. Never used the qwerty on it and that hindge was loose on week two. My MT4G is an awsome phone. I came from an iphone unlocked jailbroken iphone for the past 3 years! Android takes the cake. Now trying to learn about roots, roms ect...Time to have some fun!
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Lakeshow423 said:
I love this phone. I had the G2 and returned it. Never used the qwerty on it and that hindge was loose on week two. My MT4G is an awsome phone. I came from an iphone unlocked jailbroken iphone for the past 3 years! Android takes the cake. Now trying to learn about roots, roms ect...Time to have some fun!
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Ha ha.. I hear you on that one bro!
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Upgraded from the MT3G, and I have to say that I absolutely LOVE this phone! No regrets whatsoever.
Had the G2 for three weeks before the MT4G came out. I have no regrets about exchanging it for the MT4G. My only qualm with the MT4G are the physical buttoms Still, the only thing that would have made me want to return the MT4G is if the Nexus S had been made by HTC. Since it's by Samsung, I'm loosing zero sleep over it (although I still have 5 days in my new buyers remorse).
c_licious said:
My only qualm with the MT4G are the physical buttoms Still, the only thing that would have made me want to return the MT4G is if the Nexus S had been made by HTC. Since it's by Samsung, I'm loosing zero sleep over it (although I still have 5 days in my new buyers remorse).
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Coming from a Nexus to this I love the P buttons cause on the nexus I would accidentally press the captive ones and came out annoying sometimes! But I'm with you with Samsung making the upcoming Nexus S! But all in all I like this phone, I'm rooted, still on a stock rom and does not skip a beat! I can just imagine how beastly this phone will be when the Devs work on our phones!
Yup, ive been through my share of iphones the past 3 years, and kept telling everybody that theres nothing better then an iphone. Then I got irritated with not having 3g speeds with it and gave this mt4g a try. And I now theres no looking back. I tell everybody with an unlocked iphone to get the mt4g. It blows all other iphones out the water
+1 for real buttons.... I see this as a feature over the g2.... I'm so tired of touch buttons on the n1.....
Push them *****es all the time in the car... I always find the one I'm after after pushing all the other 3...
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Coming from a Vibrant, I truly believed that there was no life after SAMOLED, I can now say w/o a doubt that life just gets better, This phone has surpassed all of my expectations.
Wow, these responses are blowing me away. I purchased my myt4g last night and was kind of unsure because of the nexus s coming. I have to say as of right now I absolutely love my phone. I truely didnt think I would enjoy it this much.
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I purchased the g2 first day it came out, returned it 3 days later because i hated everything about it.
Just got the MT4G and was skeptical about sense, but after a full 48 hours of use im in love.
the g2 cant even shake a stick at the 4G
The best way to describe my opinion on the MT4G is that this is the phone I was expecting when I purchased the Vibrant back in July. After reading all the hype about the Galaxy S series, I was expecting a true superphone that will exceed everyone's expectations of what a smartphone should be. Needless to say, that was not the case at all.
Although I like the look of capacitive buttons, I accidentally touched them on quite a few occasions while using the Vibrant, causing the phone to perform undesired actions. Going forward, I will try to opt for phones that have physical buttons (unless, of course, Desire HD was released in the U.S.).
It's already been 2 weeks since I bought the MT4G, and I've yet to find anything that I am not happy with. Sure, the speaker could be better, and the screen could be SAMOLED. However, neither shortcoming is a dealbreaker for me, and the phone certainly works the way it was intended to work right out of the box.
I'm EXTREMELY satisfied with my MT4G. So much so that I ordered another one for my significant other! Back on Nov. 4th, I was just about to buy a G2 to replace my old G1. I was in love with the performance of the G2. It had a physical keyboard, just like my G1, and was the next logical evolution of the platform, so I thought.
While the T-Mo rep was ringing me up at the cash register, he casually said "Yeah we're really busy tonight, trying to get ready for tomorrows launch of the MyTouch HD" (he referred to it as the HD from what I remember). He went on to tell me some features, and even showed me the phone and let me handle it for a few minutes. I was so impressed with the ergonomics and the feature set (a 1GHz gen 2 Snapdragon processor vs. 800MHz gen 2 in the G2) that I told him to stop ringing me up for the G2 because I wanted to wait for the MT4G.
I'm glad I waited. While I still like the G2, its durability is highly suspect. It wouldn't be so bad if the hinges were made out of steel or some other durable metal, but they appear to be plastic. That kinda scares me.
And now that I've become proficient at SWYPE, I can crank out paragraphs almost as fast as I can type on a real full-sized keyboard. I could never do that on the physical slide-out keyboard on my G1.
It's no wonder the MT4G is back-ordered everywhere.
Coming straight of a rooted G1, this phone is heaven on a stick!
It's just great - it's responsive, fast, has so many features and the battery life is so much better than the G1. Sense does take some time for me to get used to, but that wasn't a problem since I could always use Launcher Pro or ADW Launcher if I didn't like it.
The main thing is that the performance of the phone has succeeded my expectations.
Coming from an Evo, Droid Incredible, Not one but three N1's , Samsung Epic 4G, Xperia X10, Original MOTO Droid, Droid X, I am actually highly impressed, down to the point where I have actually found what I've always wanted in an Android...
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Sidekick (possibly htc) android based!.....

T-Mobile just confirmed a sidekick 4G android device will be coming in the next few months
http://www.gizmocrunch.com/android/4841-samsung-galaxy-4g-htc-sidekick-t-mobile
It sounds interesting, I have had a sidekick before and the design is hot imo however the software (danger OS) was terrible the market had no apps compare to android.
So what you guys think about this? Do you see potential in the device since its android afterall, and don't come comment things like "its a teenager phone" because I've seen old people with it before LOL
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the only thing I see not making me excited is the possibility that htc won't be making it, we all know that the best processors are currently made by htc and samsung, and I only buy htc phones! lol
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When the Sidekick was released, apps were not an issue, it was never really an issue. In fact, I am sure that it decline because the iPhone was a smartphone that didn't feel like you were carrying around a brick. I had the Sidekick 3 which was released in 2006, it was heavy, but it was a pretty cool phone despite the fact it was not exactly portable.
Also, neither Samsung or HTC will make the next Sidekick (lack of involvement with the brand is one reason). Most likely it will be either Sharp or Motorola. Leaning towards Sharp because they didn't have issues with their Sidekick versions.
Fun fact, the guy behind Android founded Danger Inc.
I had the Sidekick 08 from launch all the way up until a couple months ago when I purchased the myTouch 4g. I enjoyed the phone while I had it, never had any problems with it(except for the whole data loss incident). I got the MT4G because the sidekick had been worn out over the past years, but it was a good phone
If htc ain't making than no sidekick for me lmao but we still don't know for sure any one could make this new sidekick we'll see!
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This is awesome news!!
I had the latest sidekick Lx and I loved it, still love that keyboard for texting, i miss it ):
Do you all think they will have still have that flip screen.
I recently had to use one and let me tell you i hated every minute of it.
See I like a lot of people text when we arent suppose to. Having to flip that screen everytime to send a text was painful. I really dont see how kids get away with texting in class.
androidfeen809 said:
the only thing I see not making me excited is the possibility that htc won't be making it, we all know that the best processors are currently made by htc and samsung, and I only buy htc phones! lol
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Know?
Droid X performs tons of HTC devices. And that's a Motorola. Droid X is about equal to the MT4g in power.
I hope Samsung makes the Sidekick. Super AMOLED FTW! Plus it's gonna be Andy Rubin's baby. Which means... Stock Android ?! It could be like the Nexus S with a keyboard epic win
Makes sense to me that it would be running android though not only is it the best os in my opinion but the guy who brought you the sidekick UI is now in charge of Google's user experience department. I hope for one hope HTC busts out the sidekick I never owned one and always wanted one, and although Sombionix and Team Whiskey bust out some great roms for my phone I don't think I'll go the Samsung route again.
Dank Ups
Vibrant Galaxy S
Doin that Voodoo that it do so well with Bionix V5
Anderdroid said:
Know?
Droid X performs tons of HTC devices. And that's a Motorola. Droid X is about equal to the MT4g in power.
I hope Samsung makes the Sidekick. Super AMOLED FTW! Plus it's gonna be Andy Rubin's baby. Which means... Stock Android ?! It could be like the Nexus S with a keyboard epic win
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And your wish just came true stock android and unfortunately (for me ofcourse) its made by samsung! With the super amoled btw no offense I just don't like samsung so I won't buy this new sidekick you will lol
That sounds pretty sweet! Physical kbs are always nice.
Yea I'm not saying its bad its just I like htc better but it looks good for samsung fans at least its better than sharp making the sidekick, and I love that it has a ffc but guess what and this really inffuriates me...... no flash on the cam wtf at this age
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What are some of your previous phones? Worst ones? Best ones?

What is your phone history like? If you're on this forum you probably have a pretty exstensive collection of phones. I just came from an iphone 3g,which I hated after the novelty wore off. I have had both at&ts blackberry holds(9000,9700). I would have to say the worst phone I have had is an lg vu, the resistive touch screen on that thing was garbage. The inspire is by far the best phone I have had.
So I ask what phones have you had and which ones did you like and hate?
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Wow. A walk down memory lane.
My first "smart" phone was the LG Incite. Terrible phone but it's where I learned about roms and doing fun stuff.
Next was the HTC Pure. Great phone for the time. Can't believe how tiny it is now. Because of the great devs on XDA this phone was also my first experience with Android.
Then I got the Samsung Captivate. I bought it off ebay and didn't know about the random shutdowns at the time. I used it for two months before I broke down and renewed my contract with ATT and came away with the Inspire.
HTC has the best built quality. Both of the HTC phones I've owned are solid. I think I've found a home.
Ephemeralness said:
Wow. A walk down memory lane.
My first "smart" phone was the LG Incite. Terrible phone but it's where I learned about roms and doing fun stuff.
Next was the HTC Pure. Great phone for the time. Can't believe how tiny it is now. Because of the great devs on XDA this phone was also my first experience with Android.
Then I got the Samsung Captivate. I bought it off ebay and didn't know about the random shutdowns at the time. I used it for two months before I broke down and renewed my contract with ATT and came away with the Inspire.
HTC has the best built quality. Both of the HTC phones I've owned are solid. I think I've found a home.
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I think the qaulity of the materials used for htc is top notch at the moment, but how its put together is a different story in my opinion...I had a cingular 8125 and that phone was a tank
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Moto Razr
Iphone 2G (threw it against the wall)
Palm Treo (forgot with model lol)
HTC Kaiser
Moto Backflip
HTC Inspire
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1st phone was a Nokia somthin or other. Had an antenea you pulled up. Looked like a walkie talkie.
2nd phone was a Samsung Alias flip hinge. Looked cool, was junk.
3rd phone was a Nokia Music phone. It was lame. Looked like a small game boy.
Only had a 126meg card for holding music....All proprietary equip....
4th phone was a Blackberry Pearl. I loved that phone.
5th Phone was an HTC Kaiser
6th Phone was an Iphone 3g.
And today I have the inspire.
RAZR
iPhone
iPhone 3GS
iPhone 4
HTC Inspire.
I am totally impressed with the build quality and UI of HTC. If AT&T wouldn't have been stupid and limited the Amazon App store I would probably still be stock. Thanks to them for opening my eyes to the wonderful world of Rooting. Thanks to everybody on XDA for helping me through it!
Coming from iPhone has been interesting. I'm not an Apple hater, and I think the iPhone is a solid choice, but I like to be able to tinker, and the options with Android is limitless.
My first smart phone was the LG Incite an absolute piece of garbage if it wasn't for the buggy software to the hardware defects.
Then i started my love affair with Blackberry first was my Curve 8310 one of the most reliable phones i have ever owned still works like a charm today. Then i got a Blackberry Storm solid phone still works well although the stock software is yet to be desired.
Next i bought a Captivate. Overall really good phone despite is drawbacks. Love the development community for the Cappy. Turned an otherwise good phone into a really good phone.
and last but not least my Inspire 4G. Haven't had it long but one thing i do like is the build quality. It's a nice looking solid built phone.
LG Incite was my first as well (not including all the non smartphones). I don't have the bad feelings about it though like most seem to have. It was what it was... an entry level windows mobile phone. With the right rom and tweaks, it worked fine for me.
Next, the HTC Pure. Another good windows mobile phone and like all windows mobile phones, took a lot of tweaking to get working well. Tried Android on it but never did care for it. Actually turned me off of Android because of it.
And then came the Inspire. I actually wasn't even paying attention to what was coming out to Att. After they had the captivate (which I almost got but unluckily, or luckily, had some expenses come up that prevented me from getting it), I just stopped looking to upgrade. Well... some ad or something popped up while on the net at work one day and the next day I was walking out of an Att store with the Inspire. 1 week later, after some Android 101.. I was rooted with the hack kit and couldn't be happier. Finally got a radio that gets me a good signal (that was a bit frightening when I first got it) and it is sooo freakin solid now. Absolutely no issues.
LG Vu and LG shine
Now this phone!
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1. Some Crap from Nextel I dont even know what it was called
2. More Crap idk what it was called from T-Mobile
3. Silver Razr from Tmobile
4. Black Razr from AT&T
5. Blackjack 2 from AT&T
6. Iphone 3g from AT&T
7. Samsung Captive from AT&T
8. HTC Inspire 4G from AT&T
I'm only 13 and I first had an LG xenon for about 15 days then traded it in for an iPhone 3G because it was the same price but after about a year I got an iPhone 4 for my birthday but about 3 months later it got stolen from my schools office so i went back to my 3G for about 6 months then got the Atrix and absolutely hated the locked bootloader and that it was slow and buggy so I traded it in for the inspire and love it, and currently running ingerscroll 2.4
Well this could be a long list.
1. PrimeCo QCP 1900
2. PrimeCo QCP something This one
3. AT&T QCP2700
4. AT&T Ericsson 688 with extended battery
5. Sprint StarTac digital(still works!)
6. AT&T Nokia 5110 w/ Red faceplate
7. AT&T Panasonic EBTX310
8. Verizon LG flip phone with camera (still works)
9. Cingular(AT&T) RAZR gen 1
10. AT&T LG CU500
11. AT&T Samsung Sync
12. AT&T BlackBerry Curve 8310
13. iPhone
14. iPhone 3G
15. iPhone 3GS
16. iPhone 4
17. Samsung Captivate
18. HTC Inspire 4G
Probably a few others I have forgotten.
My first smartphone was a Blackjack II: I loved it . I don't remember exactly what order this happened, but here are my past smartphone devices:
Blackjack II
Motorola Q9m
iPhone 3GS
Samsung Jack
Blackberry Bold 9700 (loved it, may actually grab a 9780 )
Samsung Captivate
Motorola Atrix
Blackberry Pearl 8110
Samsung Focus
HTC Tilt II
HTC Inspire (Current Device)
I am only going to post smartphones, because frankly, it really didn't matter what kind of phone it was before smartphones... you either had a flip phone or a non flip phone.
HTC Tilt I
Blackberry Bold 9000
Blackberry Bold 9700
Samsung Captivate
Out of those, not that the Tilt was a bad phone in its day, but I liked that one the least out of all of them. It was a first generation touchscreen smartphone. I liked that the screen tilted and loved the qwerty keyboard, but that was about it. The phone was a brick, and it got annoying that you had to use the stylus for almost everything. And of course, it had Windows Mobile 5 or 6. Don't remember which one. Loved the Blackberrys, but unfortunetly, Blackberry fell behind in smartphone technology, which is why I jumped ship to Android.
My last phone was the Epix. Overall it was a well built phone, but my messing around with the software and drooping it a few times led to my favorite error message ever. All it said was "Phone: fail" it was at that point I decided it was time for an upgrade.
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yikes...memory lane, okie dokie
Audiovox 135 - prepay
Sanyo 8200 - sprint
treo 600 - sprint
treo 650 - sprint
treo 755p - sprint
samsung upstage - att
nokia 6555- att
lg vu - att
samsung eternity - att
bb curve - att
bb bold 9000 - att
backflip - att
aria - att
captivate - att
quantum - att
atrix - att
nokia 2610 - att
inspire - att
cavsoldier19d said:
ILoved the Blackberrys, but unfortunetly, Blackberry fell behind in smartphone technology, which is why I jumped ship to Android.
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I loved my blackberrys, espcially the bold 9000 which I think was much better than the 9700. If they could keep up with andriod and ios and release a phone worthy of the competition I would happily jump back on the blackberry train
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Nokia model unknown for trakphone pull up antenna and all
Nokia 5165 put cool antenna lights and light up batteries on it lol. - ATT
Nokia 3360 - ATT
Motorola v60 - my favorite one. Worked anywhere lol.
Motorola razor black - ATT. Pos
Blackberry pearl - ATT
IPhone 3g - ATT
HTC aria - ATT
HTC inspire - ATT. My new favorite.
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Worst
I've had two of the most horrendous phones ever cursed on the world, the Palm Treo 680 (unlocked) and the Blackberry Pearl Flip. I truly believe the Treo 680 helped kill Palm. It was a $400 waste of money down the toilet. Always freezing, always cutting out on calls, always crashing. My brother and I bought one each at the same time...well...within a weeks time...and they both did the same thing.
Then there was the BB Pearl Flip. Complete POS, to put it super mildly. The UI was horrendous, the battery life got to the point where it lasted less than a day in standby mode with no wireless on except the cell radio....and completely unused. Changed out the battery for a new one and made no difference. It was so bad I swore never to look at Blackberrys again.
Best
The best phone I ever acquired, and still lovingly have, is the T-Mobile US HTC HD2. It has been nothing short of purely outstanding. I can use any ROM coded for it and the fun factor is over the roof. Super reliable and trouble-free.
My current favorite phone, though, is the Samsung Focus. I **** you not, the Focus has grown on me daily. The style seems to get more appealing everyday of owning it. I love looking at it and it feels so nice to hold. The slenderness is superb. Since the NoDo/firmware update, WP7 has been the best mobile OS I ever had the good fortune to use.
But my HTC Inspire continues to impress me. Such a well-built phone and Android with HTC Sense 2.0 is so smooth. I've tried other launchers with it but I come back to Sense because the smoothness and reliability just can't be beat.
Then there is my iPhone 4. I began my iPhone love with the purchase of an original first gen iPhone not long after they launched. It was such a relief finally having something reliable and usable. I came from the friggin Palm Treo 680 and back in those days...before the iPhone existed...there was nothing even remotely as good as the iPhone showed to be. When the iPhone launched, it was like a dramatic relief from the super-crappy offerings available and shoved down our throats. ...speaking only of smartphones. I so completely loved the iPhone experience from day 1.
Now I have an iPhone 4 and can't believe how wonderful this little piece of artwork is. The build quality is second to none. The elegance is over-flowing. The reliability is pure and the performance is the best there is. My iPhone 4 is and will always be my main phone. I made the mistake of leaving home without it one time and regretted it. I decided I wanted to take my Inspire with me and leave the iPhone at home. It happened that I needed to use my downloaded compass and also the Google maps and neither one of those functions worked for me. I was so glad I had a sense of the direction because if I had relied on the compass...the maps wouldn't even display...we would have been lost. That was the first and last time I will leave home without my iPhone. I will have a minimum of 2 phones with me and my iPhone 4 will be one.
cavsoldier19d said:
Loved the Blackberrys, but unfortunetly, Blackberry fell behind in smartphone technology, which is why I jumped ship to Android.
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This is EXACTLY what happened to me....I think it may have been the best phone (Bold 9700) I've ever had.
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What device introduced you to the Android world?

I remember back in the days, when the phones actually were used for phone calls and maybe couple of texts. I'm not that old school, at least at she 30, I still consider myself pretty young. Growing up, racing cars was my passion. After becoming an adult, getting married and having kids, everything changed for me. Couldn't spend the amount of cash I used to on cars. So I decided to sell my car. And with having experience only on couple flip phones, including the EXE, I decided to order a blackberry Curve 8330. I stated getting interest in the tweaking and messing with it. Updating firmwares was about the most exciting thing I was doing back them. One day I walked in a radio shack store, and there it was, the HTC HD2. Immediately feel in love with the big screen and design. It was love at first sight. Being a windows phone didn't matter at the time, since I was not familiar with the Android world, so I didn't know better. Then, came across XDA, and everything changed. Started reading about Android and the goodies that it had, and found out that there was a way to boot Android on my device from the as card. Had the first taste, and never looked back. Currently own a Samsung galaxy Note, running ICS 4.0.4, and I'm loving it.
That's the way I was introduced to this amazing world, with all this amazing people, willing to sacrifice time with the family and restless nights cooking awesome software for people that they not even know, and many times aren't even grateful of their job. Thanks Android, for giving me a great opportunity of interacting with awesome and brilliant people. And grateful for this great hobby.
for me it was the HTC G1, Edge speed on At&t was awful but I really loved the phone
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My friend had that phone, but at the time I didn't even had an idea of what it was.
The nexus one! Amazing phone at the time. I still have it running ICS as a backup phone.
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I've had a cellular phone since before cellular was available to the public (worked for an equipment mfg and was part of the field trials). Since then, I've had a butt load of phones. My first smart phone was Windows CE, had several WIndows Mobile phones after that. Then came the Dell Streak - fell in love with Android and will never go to anything else. Current phone is the GNote, just wish it would get ICS soon.
HTC Hero, sense was an awful experience. Everything about that phone was laggy but i loved the design of it.
HTC g2 i always bragged on how much the little device Could do
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original HTC EVO Here only had it a short time though Play store wasnt what it is today I went back to iPhone till the note came out now i'm sold
June 2010 I got the Motorola backflip I feel in love with Android but after the first 6 months the processor at 528 mhz was unbearably slow. The great devs created cm7 for it which just barley made it bearable to wait until February when my contract was up. I had no problems moving from the 3.1in screen to the 5.2 in screen on the note. I still think having the keyboard on the back than flipping backwards is the best design for a phone with a keyboard.
My first Android device was the Mytouch 3g Slide. I absolutely loved that phone. I rooted it and threw CM on it and the phone was blazing. Later that same year, I went and purchased my first vanilla Android device, the HTC G2. Never thought about getting a non vanilla Android since.
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My first Android device was the Dell Streak! Will never go smaller than 5 inch screen!
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Motorola Backflip.
It was a pretty terrible phone, but my first smartphone with a data plan.
Ive had my fare share of phone over the years. My Signature below shows all of them in order....I loved WM phones and being able to flash all the different roms that everyone on XDA made for them. So of course once I could finally got an android that would work on att I switched over and loved it ever since! The TMobile HD2 was my switch over phone...running both WM and android...it was nice having WM for daily use and Android to start playing with and use to so once the HTC Aria came out I made the full switch to android.
My first was a blackberry curve, I didn't do anything to it and didn't know much about phones at that time. Then I upgraded to the galaxy s captivate. with XDA's help I learned how to customize it the way I wanted! I retired my captivate for the note and I love this phone, and am grateful for all the devs on here to help me customize this beast.
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Yeah same here. I started with the HTC 8125 and Tilt 2(winmo). Then came across the Dell Streak when the Tilt 2 was discontinued for sale. Now a note. Love Android!
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I've had a cellular phone since before cellular was available to the public (worked for an equipment mfg and was part of the field trials). Since then, I've had a butt load of phones. My first smart phone was Windows CE, had several WIndows Mobile phones after that. Then came the Dell Streak - fell in love with Android and will never go to anything else. Current phone is the GNote, just wish it would get ICS soon.
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HTC touch ( ran android beta on it) official device was the Google Ion.
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The Dell Streak. I was won over by the 5" display. Love that phone and still have it as my backup device. The Note was the only viable sucessor to the Streak. Loving the Note now!
Started with G1 as my first android phone. I thought it was awesome phone at that time. But started playing with all the rooting and changing roms is with my fav Nexus One. That phone was one of my favorite phones ever.
HTC HD2 was my first device
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Started smartphones with the HTC dash running winmo on TMobile. Then iPhone 3g. Got bored of that after a year, pounced on the Captivate and never looked back. From the captivate I got the infuse and now my note. Long live Android. =]
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Happy b-day One X!

On this day, the awesomely designed, awesomely fast, and awesomely picture taking One X was released to much fanfare. If only HTC would have market this phone aggressively, things may have been different. Here's to another year with this awesome device :good:
Yes I can remember thinking I'm gonna get that phone, I went to stores to check it out and they said sold out. In the next week I learned apple had sued htc and blocked devices from entering customs. I was bummed as att store said phone may never be available. I had a strange idea and I went to a 3rd party att non corp store and guess what , they had phone . I was so happy as att didn't get phone it for about 2 months. I've never liked a phone better, the HTC one looks awesome as well
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I got this phone on launch day on AT&T (May 6) at my local RadioShack. It was the only one they had. I got home and had so much fun with my beautiful new phone. Then in September I discovered this whole new world called xda-developers. It was like someone had just taken my phone and given it a shot of adrenaline. I was so overjoyed. I was naïve and like many new users, it only took me a month to soft brick it, and without a Windows PC I had to wait 5 days to fix it. I learned from my mistakes. In November, my phone got the qhusb_dload glitch and wouldn't turn on I got a new phone and have never looked back. Love this phone.
Same here... I actually got mine may 5th
The little chick working at RadioShack sold me one a day early lol. Ohhh that screen... The camera... Build quality... The quickness.. Mine still contends with some of the new super phones. (Pooped on an stock gs4 today) lol!
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Lol radio shack ftw
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I remember I got mine before May LOL. Rogers was selling them before AT&T. I bricked my first One X because of Ice Cold Jelly, got a new one and love it. My friends think I'm a phone wizard LOL.
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I remember I got mine before May LOL. Rogers was selling them before AT&T. I bricked my first One X because of Ice Cold Jelly, got a new one and love it. My friends think I'm a phone wizard LOL.
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Same, except for my one friend who has 2 rooter Nexus devices. We're like the dynamic duo.
lol i got mine on radio shack too a couple days after launch day.Went to like 3 different AT&t stores before i went to radio shack though. Good thing i got it or else i would of had to wait a while for the 1.85 root. Rooted the phone and installed Clean rom on the same day i got it.

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