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What is your mobile phone history like?

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Mirimar

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My first provider was Voicestream, so I had the Nokia 3360 for a long time. After that was a Ericsson T28 flip phone. HTC Shadow with T-mobile, followed by a Mytouch 4G, and my current phone is now a Samsung Galaxy S3.

Only 5 phones over 14 years, averaging 3 yrs a phone. Not bad, haha!
 
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Deleted member 17706

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I'll exclude pre-smartphone stuff.

Droid in 2010
iPhone 4S in 2011
iPhone 5S in 2013
Xperia Z1 in 2014

Already planning on going back to iOS with the iPhone 6 release and just sticking with it.
 
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Takuan

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Motorola v60i
Sony Ericsson (can't remember the model, was a flip phone)
Blackberry Bold (1st gen)
Samsung Galaxy S2
Samsung Galaxy S4
OnePlus One
 
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Rollo Lawson

Banned
Motorola MicroTAC
Samsung SGH 2400
Motorola c332
Motorola Razr
Sidekick 2
Blackberry Pearl (best)
Blackberry Curve
G1
iPhone 3
Droid X
iPhone 4s
Lumia Icon (second best and climbing)
 
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TMC

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HTC One M8 (Current)
HTC One M7 (Sold)
Motorola Droid Bionic (Backup)
Original Droid (Sold)
LG AX8600
Nextel i860
Nextel i730
Nextel i95

I think that is the complete list.
 
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Furyous

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Two of the overpriced sub $200 original virgin mobile phones.
Two Motorola Razrs.
One LG Vu 900
An iphone 4 32 GB which I filled up in 48 hours and broke the motherboard two and half years later.
An iphone 5

I want an iphone 6 and either an LG G3 or another high spec thin bezeled Android smartphone this fall. I'm so picky with android phones. Anything above 5.2 inches needs 3 GB of RAM, a non pentile display, an Adreno GPU, and 425+ PPI to make me feel whole.
 
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butalala

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If there's anything that this thread proves, it's that phone themselves used to be a lot more interesting than they are today.
 
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Damaniel

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butalala said:
If there's anything that this thread proves, it's that phone themselves used to be a lot more interesting than they are today.
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Indeed - for better or worse, Apple defined the appearance and functionality of 'modern' phones, which have all become more-or-less monolithic bricks with a screen that covers the entire face. Personally, I prefer all of my modern phones over their very limited older counterparts, so I consider Apple's contributions to be a net positive. But yeah, there were some really strange looking phones back in the 2003-2007 time frame...
 
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kabel

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butalala said:
If there's anything that this thread proves, it's that phone themselves used to be a lot more interesting than they are today.
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Do you mean this? xD
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Husker86

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...excluding non-smartphones
HTC Mogul
HTC Touch Diamond
Apple iPhone 3G
HTC Touch Pro
Palm Pre
HTC Hero
HTC EVO
Apple iPhone 4
HTC Thunderbolt
Samsung Galaxy Nexus
Apple iPhone 5
LG Nexus 4
Samsung Galaxy S4
Apple iPhone 5s
LG Nexus 5

I lean Android, but always like owning an iOS device as well. I sold my 5s to my sister and will be getting the next iPhone as well as the next Nexus phone from Google.
 
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rrs

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Sprint:
Samsung flip phone thing (emergency phone) 2006-???
Don't know much about it, didn't use it much
LG Lotus ???-2011
Nice phone, but no data with parent's plan annoyed me. This lead me to get off my parent's plan and go tracfone.
Tracfone:
LG 500G 2011-2012
Nice crackberry clone with a vertical orientated screen and full keyboard. Served me well until I jumped on the android craze.
Unknown Samsung candybar phone with qwery slideout keyboard 2011?
It sucked, went back to 500G
PlatinumTel: (former sprint MVNO)
Samsung Galaxy Prevail 2012-hoildays 2012
Small screen, lack of internal storage, but had superuser and was better than my other phones all things considered. I managed to bail out before the carrier turned into something for T-Mobile.
Virgin Mobile:
Kyocera Rise holidays 2012-2013
$40 later, and I got this thing. Super thick, had good battery life, but died out on me and the physical keyboard on it was slower than using swiping keyboards. Decided to get something less awful.
HTC Evo 3D 2013-2014
A really nice phone without a doubt, especially with custom ROMS. Awful/dropping reception, getting hot, and lack of battery life made me give it up.
LG Volt (Optimus L90 w/CDMA radio) 2014-
Battery lasts forever, LTE is awesome, runs very well, but the LG skin sucks ass. Don't think I'll be giving this phone up as fast as the others
 
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jax

Banned
Nokia 3210
Samsung A900
iPhone
iPhone 3G
iPhone 3GS
iPhone 4
iPhone 4S
Nokia Lumia 920 (The iPhone 5 design was/is garbage.)
iPhone 5C

waiting on that 6..
 
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CronoShot

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Normal flip phones for years. I don't remember what kinds.
Some shitty Blackberry flip phone
iPhone 5
HTC One M7
Nexus 5
Samsung Galaxy Note 3
HTC One M8
Samsung Galaxy S5 (returned)
LG G3 (current)

I'm interested in seeing the Galaxy Note 4, iPhone 6, and Nexus 6 later this year.
 
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Katori

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I had a history of bad phones.

Bought a Sidekick in high school, shortly before the massive data outage.
Transitioned to a G1, support was discontinued in only a few months. Still used it for the duration of the contract.
Transitioned to a Blackberry. The keyboard was nice and the email/text clients were fast and never crashed, but I yearned for real apps.
Got a Windows 7 Lumia. Windows Phone 7 was kinda a crapshow, even less support than WP has now and that's saying something.

When that contract was finally up and my shackles were released, I got an iPhone 5. Best decision of my life. Hope to upgrade to a 6 if the money allows when they're released.
 
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darkazcura

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T637 Sony Ericsson (2005-2008)

W760 Sony Ericsson (2008-2009)..broken

Nokia N82 (2009-2010)..still used as backup in extreme cases

Nexus One (2010-2012)..broken

iPhone 4S (returned within a few weeks..) (March 2012)

Lumia 900 (March 2012-October 2012)..broken

iPhone 4..my Lumia broke :( Used the iPhone 4 from October 2012-May 2013

HTC One (May 2013-now)

I was doing pretty good from 2005-2012. Only had 4 phones and the only reason I upgraded my W760 in the first place was because it broke. Once 2012 hit, though, everything hit the fan, lol. My Nexus One broke, and I wanted to try new OS's. Finally settle back into Android with the HTC One in 2013.
 
LowerLevel

LowerLevel

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1. Some type of Motorola flip pre-paid thing (can't remember model, sorry)
2. Droid 1
3. Droid 3
4. Droid 4
5. Nokia Icon
 
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fuzzylogic

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1. One of the early color screen flip phones (but it was still cheap).
2. A sliding front, dumb phone.
3. Palm Pre 2. It was a cheap smart phone, but I liked the OS better than iOS (parents' had iPhones), but the app store had literally nothing recognizable but Angry Birds.
4. Mother's old dumb phone. Similar to my 2nd phone.
5. Samsung Epic 4G (Not even sure what this is? Their first iteration hardware with 4G implemented? Something between a Galaxy S1 and S2?)

My first cell phone was a flip phone, in high school, right when color displays were brand new. It had face plates I could change!

Then I had some sliding phone. Screen on front that opened up to show the dial pads. That broke in college.

Got my first smart phone for $30 a month on the family plan. A Palm Pre 2, because it was one of the cheapest smart phones. I liked it a lot, really. It didn't do much (the HP app store is hilariously barren), but I barely use my phone and it did everything I needed well.

I didn't want to pay $30 a month, because I'm very unwilling to spend much on a phone. I switched to one of my mother's old dumb phones (she had an iPhone 4S now), and payed $10 a month on the family plan.

I'm on my own plan now. Bought a Samsung Epic 4G (it's fat and slow) for $120 unlocked and now pay $10 + tax a month on Ring Plus.

I have never owned a cool phone or been on an expensive plan. Smart phones are cool, but I barely use my phone and do not care enough to pay more. I have been thinking about jumping on the iPhone 6, but immediately hop off that train when I remember how much it would cost.
 
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The Real Abed

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I didn't want a cell phone at all until 2006 when I ran into an old friend I hadn't seen in 15 years and wanted to keep in touch.

I started with a Net10 Motorola candy bar phone of some unnamed type in 2006

Moved to a Net10 Motorola vertical slider of some unnamed type in 2008

Switched to Virgin when I got an LG Rumor Touch in 2010 (It was a dumb phone that pretended to be a smart phone)

The next February I switched to an actual smartphone, albeit a shitty low-end Android LG Optimus V in 2011

Then the next June I got fed up with it and said fuck it when Virgin finally received the iPhone and got me a 4S in 2012 (However, Virgin's 3G in my area and anywhere leaves something to be desired so I went for almost 2 years with shitty data that worked fine enough for my needs, but was always connecting to WiFi to get stuff done)

And this May I got a white 5C on Virgin for almost half what I paid for my 4S 2 years before (And it works brilliantly. Virgin's LTE is much better than their 3G. In that it actually works when I'm within its signal range. And even its 3G works better than my 4S' did somehow.)

All on Prepaid.
 
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CurlySaysX

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Ericsson T30
Sony Ericsson T310
Sony Ericsson K700
Sony Ericsson K800
Sony Ericsson C905
Samsung Tocco
Sony Ericsson Aino
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10
Sony Ericsson Xperia Play
Sony Ericsson Xperia S
Sony Ericsson Xperia Z
Sony Ericsson Xperia Z2
 
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psylah

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I've had 5 since about 2002. Got a phone after 9-11.

Some Ericsson, monochrome screen.
Some Nokia, monochrome screen
Pantech Matrix, the first phone I bought myself
Samsung Galaxy S2
Samsung Galaxy S5

I've never broken or lost a phone.
 
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Apt101

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I honestly cannot even remember my phones prior to my Razor (Razr?). Then it was all iPhones through 3GS, then a HTC One, followed by an iPhone 5, and now a Samsung Galaxy s5 - which I kind of regret buying. Good phone but it's just super huge. I'll probably sell it and get an iPhone 6 when they ship.
 
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Cheetos is Pretty Awesome

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  • Nokia 3310
  • Siemens M55
  • HTC Canary
  • Nokia N-Gage
  • Motorola ROKR
  • Nokia 6650
  • HTC G1
  • HTC G2
  • iPhone 4S
  • iPhone 5

That's a lot of phones. Out of all of 'em I do miss the Canary the most. Was pretty badass to have a Windows Mobile device super-early in the game (~2002ish?). Shame about the camera not being built-in.
 
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SwiftDeath

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From what I remember

Motorola Razer -> iphone 3G -> iphone 4S

Maybe I'll get a iphone 6S or comparable Samsung at that time

My phone is still going strong though. Don't see a good reason to change up
 
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GYODX

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I don't remember what cellphones I had before Android.

Samsung Galaxy Xcover
Samsung Galaxy S2
Samsung Galaxy S4
 
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SeanR1221

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sean-romano.extended.jpg


Here's mine. Got the first phone in 2000. I remember I was the only kid in my class to have a cell phone.

Ugh, I can't believe I gave Windows Phone not 1 but 2 chances...
 
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Dragoon X Omega

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I had:

  1. Nokia (forgot which, the one you can open to make a keyboard)
  2. Ogo
  3. Sidekick
  4. Sidekick Color
  5. Sidekick 2
  6. Sidekick 3
  7. Sidekick LX
  8. HTC Desire Z
  9. iPhone 4S

Now I'm using Nexus 5 :)
 
BeforeU

BeforeU

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
Nokia N95
iPhone 3GS
Samsung Captivate (First Galaxy phone)
Samsung Focus
Lumia 900
Lumia 1520
 
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Shaffield

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lots of porn because I prefer to watch it on my cell phone. pornhub, gonewild, fakku, etc.


jk
I had an HTC Inspire for a while, then a Galaxy S2, and now an HTC One M8
 
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-Deadpool-

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1) Some crappy Motorola I can't even remember the model number of. Used to get ridiculously hot when I made the odd call on it.

2) Nokia 3210

3) Nokia 2630

4) HTC Incredible S

5) Samsung Galaxy S3


Pretty much only upgrade when the phone stops working (or in the case of the HTC, gets too slow for new games/apps). I've never dropped or broken a phone either.
 
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HGStormy

Banned
I was in Brasil till I was 16 and I wasn't allowed to have a phone, but when I got to the US I immediately bought one.

Dell Streak 5 -> Galaxy Nexus -> Nexus 4 -> Nexus 5 -> Galaxy S5

Galaxy Nexus was my favorite of them all. I also owned at some point a Nokia Lumia 900, a HTC Rezound and a LG G2x.
 
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StuBurns

Banned
I don't remember the first one, it was big and ugly, then a 3210, then 3310, then 7110, then a Samsung flip phone, with a screen on the outside, my first colour phone. Then some purple Sony Walkman one with a stylus. Then it's been all iPhones except for an ill fated experiment with a Galaxy S3.

I don't see me leaving the iPhone, I'm a creature of habit, I've been buying the same trainers for more than ten years.
 
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Randolph Freelander

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Well, I started carrying around a Nokia phone, not sure what model, around 2001, 2002. Then a flip phone, I think it was LG, but not sure, in 2003 or 2004. I got an LG Chocolate in 2008, then I got a Galaxy S2 as my first smart phone in 2011 (I didn't know it was a Galaxy, it was called the "Epic 4G Touch" or some such moniker by Sprint when I bought it, but I learned it was an S2 shortly afterwards), and then I got the HTC One last summer.
 
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Deleted member 22576

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I was fortunate enough to be a very early adopter of the mobile internet.
I had an LG flip phone for 2003-2004. Then in 2004 I got a Sidekick2.. which was actually a very incredible device. It had unlimited webbrowsing, full 100% background functioning AIM chats, and cloud synced notes and photos. Sidekick owners had access to a special web portal that provided them with their phones' notes, images, calender and contact list. All completely editable and instantly synced.

The webbrowsing was WAP and the connection was GPRS, but still it was absolutely amazing in every way imaginable.

I moved to a Blackberry Pearl for 6 months from December 2006 to June 2007 when I purchased an iPhone. My next phone was in November 2009 and was the Motorola Droid. Which was a great companion until I switched back to iOS in late 2011 when the iPhone 4S came out. I'm still using that 4S everyday and now it even has my blood inside it's cracked backing. But yeah I'm gonna buy a new iPhone this year and its gonna be sweet. I was 19 when I bought the first one and it took me a lot of crappy work to get that 600$
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