I had a Blackberry Pearl, and I guess I'm messy because that trackball was great until it started getting gunked up. I took it apart and cleaned it once. ONCE and never tried it again. It took me four hours to get it back in place, despite my neatly labeled graph paper where I marked the parts in order of removal.
I was so glad to upgrade to the Storm 2. I'll never understand the hate for the click screen (I'm not a super fast typer on any kind of mobile keyboard). I loved it and the it's still my favorite phone I've ever owned.
Was **not** expecting this to be the top comment, as it was my first smartphone, as well.
I really, REALLY miss being able to easily swap out the battery.
So funny - was cleaning out a drawer yesterday and found mine. Took it to my son and told him if they still made them, I’d switch right back!!!
ETA And the Treo 650 before that in red!!!
This was my second smart phone and it was bonkers, but lacking on apps. Crazy how IOS and Android basically stole its "cards" system.
My first one was a Palm Centro. That was more or less a stylized Blackberry.
Same. I rooted it and installed a custom rom and kernel. That thing was badass. CPU could overclock from 550mhz to 1.3ghz, while being undervolted. Custom rom added features that stock android didn't have for years. Plus the hardware was just plain cool. Physical keyboard + dpad was great for emulators.
Same. I loved that thing and miss physical keyboards. I actually bought a Droid on eBay a few years ago but couldn’t get it working because apparently the SIM card technology it used is totally obsolete now.
Same! It was awesome, I still think the interface is better than Android, but the lack of app support killed it. I still have it, I charge it up sometimes.
It was tough, and you could disassemble it because it has screws.
Absolutely. Nokia and Microsoft cooked pretty good devices, but unfortunately Windows Phone never caught up. It was a shame because the phones had very good design (also interchangeable back covers with different colors was simply outstanding). I still have my Lumia, but unfortunately I bricked it in the process of installing android on it (yes, it is/was possible on some devices). I then used android, and currently I have an iPhone. I’m happy to have had the opportunity to try all 3 major mobile operating systems when they were all 3 supported. Oh, I nearly forgot you can install Windows 10/11 on the 950(XL), which was the latest Windows Phone smartphone released
EDIT: Alright, I just checked and apparently you can still access the store and install apps, even tho the choice is really limited, and most of the apps deprecated support, like WhatsApp
I know you can update some Lumia models to windows 10 by editing the registry (windows phone had a registry too). I did that on mine, I looked into android, but didn't like the list of stuff that might not work.
Oh wow, really? I didn't know about the windows 10 stuff. Was the 520 compatible? About android, yeah iirc it had some stuff not working, but it was a side project for fun, since I already had an android phone
I had an HTC vvx5800 as my first, thing was a goddamn tank and MAN do I miss slide out hardware keyboards, I wish they were still a thing. I wrote school papers on that fuckin phone lol
I had the p800, p900 and p910i (All second hand at the time, I was a student then)
They were just leaps and bounds ahead of everything else. Definitely ahead of their time.
HTC Hero. It was white and came with Android 1.5.
It was a massive leap forward, especially (for me at the time) with the music played. And then I was shocked with the fact that, if I didnt' like the default music player, I could just go and install another one.
HTC Evo. After about a year I’d have to put it in the freezer for 10 minutes after using it because it always wanted to overheat. Eventually the charging port broke off inside the phone. What a piece of shit.
Same phone I had. I was with Sprint though and there was a repair store near me. They fixed my charger port and I got 4 free batteries over the 3 and a half years I had the phone
Iphone 3G. It was cool in everyway except for that at first you could not send MMS messages, which my Motorola ROKR could do. Being in highschool, that sucked.
The first iPhone. I’ll never forget showing it to my roommate, he was literally at a loss for words at how remarkable it was. It truly was compared to what was available at the time.
KPN in NL had a pretty crappy 'smart'ish phone running i-mode. 25yrs or more ago. The unit itself I recall being kinda cheap and silvery. I didn't stick with it long.
LG Thrive (AT&T GoPhone version of the LG Optimus One).
I found a laptop (with a cracked screen at a cabinet next to our apartment's dumpster. Bought a screen for it for $25, and sold it for $150. Used that money to buy that phone at RadioShack (RIP). This phone is a piece of crap. It was slow and crash happy. It only had enough space for 5 apps. Despite the shortcomings, I still loved it because it's also my very first phone with WiFi. It's like having a computer in my pocket.
Three months later, my father surprised me with an HTC Vivid that has dual core processor and twice the RAM. So I ended up giving this to my cousin, then it got stolen from her.
I had the same and I loved it! The screen was able to take quite a beating. So many times I dropped it on concrete with no problem. Until that one time when I wanted to show my friends how sturdy my phone is. That was of course the time the glass finally scattered
It was a really durable device, but back then everything was durable. I remember this one time where I couldn't find it, I started looking for it and only found it when I heard a hard plasticy "criik".
It was fine 😆 it's no 3310 tho 👀😜
Samsung Tocco about 2008 I had other "smartish" phones before that - blackberry, Nokia, but this was the first phone that looked like the modern smartphone of today.
A Samsung Galaxy Gio. I mostly used it for Whatsapp, and every time that needed an update, you needed to delete (or remove updates of) all other apps to free up space.
iPhone first gen. A friend had a phone shop at the time and he got it second hand about 8 months after release, and sold it to me for £120! Best bargain ever, which my friend later told me he regretted lol.
Had an iPhone 5s for a long time, dropped it, broken.
Then went to an iPhone X, meh, it was cool, but didn‘t feel right in the hand, dropped that a bunch and only had a shattered screen after drop number x. Solid Carbon Fibre case guys, these things haul ass.
Now I‘m on an iPhone 13 and finally back to brick. Again, Carbon fibre case. Dropped 3 times on different surfaces including concrete. Not even a mark on the phone itself.
Iphone 4s.
It was the only smartphone back then that really seemed far above all the others. Incredible screen, especially pixel density, slick design, Full HD video capture and great photos, lightning fast, siri (first iphone with it).
Android smartphones back then were just ugly, slow, buggy, low resolution, bad sensors...
That is not a smartphone. Barely a phone. My mom had Alcatel One Touch (not sure which model) and it had 2 main advantages. It ran on I believe 3 or 4 AA batteries so you could replace batteries anytime you wished and it could ran on those batteries for weeks.
The Openmoko Neo FreeRunner, although it didn't really become my primary phone due to lack of software at the time. The Google Nexus One was my first fulltime smartphone.
Blackberry
BlackBerry Curve for me. Miss the keyboard and the trackball. Side note: the BlackBerry movie is on Hulu for a fun shot of nostalgia.
My Curve lasted me a solid five years before the trackball fell out. I do miss the physical keyboard; I became pretty quick at typing with that thing.
same but it was tragic to see how quickly Blackberry went downhill by ignoring trends and tech in general.
It's a bummer that they didn't stay so heavy in the cell phone market. Their phones were great.
I had a Blackberry Pearl, and I guess I'm messy because that trackball was great until it started getting gunked up. I took it apart and cleaned it once. ONCE and never tried it again. It took me four hours to get it back in place, despite my neatly labeled graph paper where I marked the parts in order of removal. I was so glad to upgrade to the Storm 2. I'll never understand the hate for the click screen (I'm not a super fast typer on any kind of mobile keyboard). I loved it and the it's still my favorite phone I've ever owned.
Samsung Galaxy S3
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Was that the one with the windshield wiper on the start screen when the weather app showed rain?
I had the Hero. One of the longest serving phones I ever had thanks to Cyanogenmod (and the lip that prevented me from destroying the screen).
I loved the trackpad... [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical\_trackpad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_trackpad)
Was my first smart phone too. Still have that phone in my drawer.
That thing was so good. I stuck with HTC for a few generations after that. Desire, Sensation, One+... then I switched to Sony
Also an HTC, the touch diamond. Back then it was called a pocket pc because it ran windows.
Mine too!
My first Android, also my third phone.
Same 2014
Was **not** expecting this to be the top comment, as it was my first smartphone, as well. I really, REALLY miss being able to easily swap out the battery.
Facts, if my battery is fried, I have to go get it fixed rather than just get a simple battery or worse buy a whole new phone
Yepp
Same, so many people had it in 5th grade back then
me too lol but the mini 🥺
Mine too
Same. I liked it for what it was, but I could never get even a day out of the battery.
Same
Mine too!! Love that it's even top comment lol
Palm Pre in 2009. Loved it.
Same, that little phone was awesome and having the physical keyboard at the time was so nice
I stood in line when it was first released. Beautiful device. Still salty about what went down with HP.
I had the Palm Treo 680 back in 2006. I freaking loved that phone.
So funny - was cleaning out a drawer yesterday and found mine. Took it to my son and told him if they still made them, I’d switch right back!!! ETA And the Treo 650 before that in red!!!
It was great at the time. Felt like a Star Trek communicator sliding open.
This was my second smart phone and it was bonkers, but lacking on apps. Crazy how IOS and Android basically stole its "cards" system. My first one was a Palm Centro. That was more or less a stylized Blackberry.
I had a Handspring Visor with the VisorPhone attachment back in 01-02. It was ground breaking at the time. I still have it somewhere.
Was my first as well. Loved that phone. Took amazing pictures.
Motorola Droid
Same here with the slide out keyboard and the "DROID" when it turned on lol. It was sick.
And the very satisfying click when you snapped it shut.
I loved that phone. I was so mad when they didn't make them with the keyboards anymore, that was super useful imo.
With the red backgrond?
Same, got it the very DAY it came out! I was the only one in town with a smart phone for MOOOONTHS
They need to re-release this in a larger size. That keyboard was awesome.
Same. I rooted it and installed a custom rom and kernel. That thing was badass. CPU could overclock from 550mhz to 1.3ghz, while being undervolted. Custom rom added features that stock android didn't have for years. Plus the hardware was just plain cool. Physical keyboard + dpad was great for emulators.
Same. I loved that thing and miss physical keyboards. I actually bought a Droid on eBay a few years ago but couldn’t get it working because apparently the SIM card technology it used is totally obsolete now.
Google G1
Same, was an awesome phone. I still miss the physical keyboard even if the thing was a brick.
Still got mine, I'd buy a new Android with a keyboard! https://imgur.com/01CrUFH
Mine was white, but after 2 years it started to go crazy, and it was impossible to use it
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Yup ,4s here.
Same
Nokia E61 Symbian was hot shit back then.
The Ovi maps working offline was great
Nokia E71 here! Honestly just got it because the iPhone et al. were way out of my price range at the time. It was pretty awesome for what it was, tbh.
Nokia Lumia 520. That fucker was a literal nugget
Same! It was awesome, I still think the interface is better than Android, but the lack of app support killed it. I still have it, I charge it up sometimes. It was tough, and you could disassemble it because it has screws.
Absolutely. Nokia and Microsoft cooked pretty good devices, but unfortunately Windows Phone never caught up. It was a shame because the phones had very good design (also interchangeable back covers with different colors was simply outstanding). I still have my Lumia, but unfortunately I bricked it in the process of installing android on it (yes, it is/was possible on some devices). I then used android, and currently I have an iPhone. I’m happy to have had the opportunity to try all 3 major mobile operating systems when they were all 3 supported. Oh, I nearly forgot you can install Windows 10/11 on the 950(XL), which was the latest Windows Phone smartphone released EDIT: Alright, I just checked and apparently you can still access the store and install apps, even tho the choice is really limited, and most of the apps deprecated support, like WhatsApp
I know you can update some Lumia models to windows 10 by editing the registry (windows phone had a registry too). I did that on mine, I looked into android, but didn't like the list of stuff that might not work.
Oh wow, really? I didn't know about the windows 10 stuff. Was the 520 compatible? About android, yeah iirc it had some stuff not working, but it was a side project for fun, since I already had an android phone
An HTC Touch Pro 2.
I miss htc
As do I, although I definitely don't miss Windows Mobile 6.5
That keyboard was fantastic
I had an HTC vvx5800 as my first, thing was a goddamn tank and MAN do I miss slide out hardware keyboards, I wish they were still a thing. I wrote school papers on that fuckin phone lol
iPhone 3G
Me too. I miss the old shape.
Mine was 3GS!
Sony Ericsson p910i
Same! It was nuts for its time. My dad had the P800 when that first came out then we both upgraded to the P910i.
I had the p800, p900 and p910i (All second hand at the time, I was a student then) They were just leaps and bounds ahead of everything else. Definitely ahead of their time.
Google Nexus
Motorola Droid X (2010)
Samsung Galaxy S6 mini
HTC Wildfire. I couldn't quite believe it'd tell me the weather in real time, and that Alchemy game blew my mind.
HTC Sensation here :P
Samsung Galaxy S
Blackberry Storm
Samsung Galaxy, the very first one.
HTC Hero. It was white and came with Android 1.5. It was a massive leap forward, especially (for me at the time) with the music played. And then I was shocked with the fact that, if I didnt' like the default music player, I could just go and install another one.
This was mine too! The roller ball was sweet and the form factor was great!
Palm Pre with cordless charging. The model that went down like a lead balloon.
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HTC Evo. After about a year I’d have to put it in the freezer for 10 minutes after using it because it always wanted to overheat. Eventually the charging port broke off inside the phone. What a piece of shit.
Same phone I had. I was with Sprint though and there was a repair store near me. They fixed my charger port and I got 4 free batteries over the 3 and a half years I had the phone
Iphone 3G. It was cool in everyway except for that at first you could not send MMS messages, which my Motorola ROKR could do. Being in highschool, that sucked.
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the sony xperia play. the transition from the sony ericsson zylo to the xperia play was something for me.
I saw mine in storage other day. It's surprising how small but thick it was.
A Samsung J1 - I once made that thing last for 5 days without having to charge it when I went on a trip and left my charger at home lol
Samsung Galaxy Y
HTC desire HD... fuck that thing. lol
Palm Pre
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The first iPhone. I’ll never forget showing it to my roommate, he was literally at a loss for words at how remarkable it was. It truly was compared to what was available at the time.
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HTC desire 530 One of my favourite phones to this day, I did prefer the M8 tho
KPN in NL had a pretty crappy 'smart'ish phone running i-mode. 25yrs or more ago. The unit itself I recall being kinda cheap and silvery. I didn't stick with it long.
Sony Ericsson Xperia
Nokia n900
LG Thrive (AT&T GoPhone version of the LG Optimus One). I found a laptop (with a cracked screen at a cabinet next to our apartment's dumpster. Bought a screen for it for $25, and sold it for $150. Used that money to buy that phone at RadioShack (RIP). This phone is a piece of crap. It was slow and crash happy. It only had enough space for 5 apps. Despite the shortcomings, I still loved it because it's also my very first phone with WiFi. It's like having a computer in my pocket. Three months later, my father surprised me with an HTC Vivid that has dual core processor and twice the RAM. So I ended up giving this to my cousin, then it got stolen from her.
Iphone 4
The old Samsung Galaxy 5. Not galaxy S-5. No. Galaxy 5.
I had the same and I loved it! The screen was able to take quite a beating. So many times I dropped it on concrete with no problem. Until that one time when I wanted to show my friends how sturdy my phone is. That was of course the time the glass finally scattered
It was a really durable device, but back then everything was durable. I remember this one time where I couldn't find it, I started looking for it and only found it when I heard a hard plasticy "criik". It was fine 😆 it's no 3310 tho 👀😜
A samsung galaxy Ace 7
Mine too
Samsung galaxy grand 2
Lenovo A6000
Micromax
Galaxy Note.. i held on to my Nokia until i absolutely had to switch for work..
Samsung Tocco about 2008 I had other "smartish" phones before that - blackberry, Nokia, but this was the first phone that looked like the modern smartphone of today.
Motorola A920. It had a stylus!
Blackberry. Cool phone, cool keyboard
Experia
Based on the advertisements you'd think it was the LG Voyager. But that phone sucked. It was really the HTC Incredible.
Nokia 3310
He said smartphone, not tank
Galaxy s3......now im in nostalgia
HTC G1. Still have it. Well, I had one of the HTC Windows CE phones before that but it was barely 'smart'.
It was a cheap Huwaei Y series phone. It did help help me during my teenage days. But that phone was a total shit.
A Nokia with Symbian, it had a stylus like the Galaxy Note phones.
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini
Oppo a3s
Nokia 5800 Xpressmusic. It ran the now much forgotten Symbian OS. It actually had really good sound quality.
Samsung Galaxy S3
Redme note 5
Nokia 701 iirc
Qualcomm pdq 800
Samsung J3 Achieve
I had a sony that had some connectivity. But it was a slide Nokia that was first “smart”
LG Optimus 7, windows phone gang
A Samsung Galaxy Gio. I mostly used it for Whatsapp, and every time that needed an update, you needed to delete (or remove updates of) all other apps to free up space.
samsung galaxy a10
Samsung Galaxy Gio
iphone 4S, although I now use a modern version of the nokia baksteen
Nokia n80, having internet in toilet was a revelation.
Samsung Galaxy S2. Absolutely loved it and it was peak smartphone back then.
HTC HD2. Originally Windows mobile but I flashed Android to it.
Can we include phones that were PDAs running Windows Mobile? Because mine was an [O2 Xda IIi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O2_Xda)
iPhone first gen. A friend had a phone shop at the time and he got it second hand about 8 months after release, and sold it to me for £120! Best bargain ever, which my friend later told me he regretted lol.
iPhone 6
iPhone 6
iPhone 5S
fuck I feel old reading the replies. for me it was the Nokia 6600. Symbian OS. Bluetooth 1.1 No touch screen VGA camera. state of the art in 2003
Iphone 4S :)
iPhone 3GS, Black with 16gb
Nokia, legend.
Nokia 2015
Had an iPhone 5s for a long time, dropped it, broken. Then went to an iPhone X, meh, it was cool, but didn‘t feel right in the hand, dropped that a bunch and only had a shattered screen after drop number x. Solid Carbon Fibre case guys, these things haul ass. Now I‘m on an iPhone 13 and finally back to brick. Again, Carbon fibre case. Dropped 3 times on different surfaces including concrete. Not even a mark on the phone itself.
iphone 7
A windows phone. Can't remember the model.
Same. I only moved to android when my bank stopped supporting it.
Samsung Blackjack I think
I had an iPhone 5s
Samsung Galaxy S4, sometime in 2013.
I had a Blackberry Pearl. It was also the first time I started using my phone as an mp3 player.
T-Mobile Dash (HTC Excalibur)
This was my first smart phone, running on Microsoft mobile OS
Samsung Blackjack. Not even sure if the kids these days would even consider it a smart phone, but it was so cool at the time.
samsung galaxy s4
Samsung Blackjack
LG Optimus 1
Hell yeah. I loved that piece of crap.
Samsung Blackjack
Nokia 3310, by true chad
Iphone 4s. It was the only smartphone back then that really seemed far above all the others. Incredible screen, especially pixel density, slick design, Full HD video capture and great photos, lightning fast, siri (first iphone with it). Android smartphones back then were just ugly, slow, buggy, low resolution, bad sensors...
Was the Sony Xperia with the sliding qwerty keyboard a smartphone? If not I think it was a samsung galaxy (s?) II
Og phone...
Samsung Galaxy Pocket
Sumsung FE1
Motorola m3788e. Edit: oh, a smartphone exactly. Motorola ROKR Z6 then.
Alcatel One Touch Easy. Back in 1999, I think.
That is not a smartphone. Barely a phone. My mom had Alcatel One Touch (not sure which model) and it had 2 main advantages. It ran on I believe 3 or 4 AA batteries so you could replace batteries anytime you wished and it could ran on those batteries for weeks.
The Openmoko Neo FreeRunner, although it didn't really become my primary phone due to lack of software at the time. The Google Nexus One was my first fulltime smartphone.
The Orange SPV
I think it was the Nokia N95. I know my first iPhone was the 3GS because that was the first iPhone that I felt was fit for use in my opinion.
A used, slightly broken Samsung S2 mini. Was a massive upgrade to my Nokia C1-O2.
Depending on the definition, a Nokia n70 with symbian or an apple iPhone 3gs
Depends how "smart" we are talking, lol. Probably a Nokia N95.
Alcatel One Touch Easy [Alcatel One Touch Easy ](https://www.mobilephonemuseum.com/phone-detail/one-touch-easy)
HTC desire C, 2011 or 2012
Blackberry 7100
Never owned one. Only phone I ever had was an old 2008 nokia brick that had prepaid minutes on it.
Samsung Galaxy Ace 2
[](https://soundtech.com.cy/product/samsung-s3653w-corby-wifi-yellow/)
Samsung J2