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Might not have the chronology exactly right, but it won't be far off.

Nokia 3210
Nokia 3310
Samsung V200
Motorola Razr
Samsung U600
Vodafone 360 M2
BlackBerry [something]
BlackBerry Bold 9780 [work]
Nokia Lumia 800
[unknown replacement for Lumia]
Apple iPhone 4S [work]
Apple iPhone 5 [work]
Apple iPhone 4S [personal]
Microsoft Lumia 640
Apple iPhone 6
Motorola Moto G2 [work]

Really liked the Lumia 800, but I dropped it at Hammersmith station onto those bobbly things on the floor and it cracked the glass suuuuper good.

Got my iPhone 6 replaced yesterday after just four months because the home button was almost useless having been heavily recessed. No clicking, siri all the time, Apple Pay annoying as hell... not at all happy that such significant issues could result from a manufacturing defect.

Still, I saw someone at the Regent Street store and they sorted me out with a brand new handset. Absolutely cannot complain about that service; second to none.
 
iPhone 3G
iPhone 4
Nexus 4
Lumia 925
iPhone 5

And in a couple of days I will either get the iPhone 6S or the SE. Haven't decided yet :/
 
Nokia Lumia 800
Nokia Lumia 520
OnePlus One

Couldn't be happier with the switch to Android after two Windows Phones, though I loved my 800 as well. My 520 was a cheap stopgap, barely lasted me a year before I decided to go for something new. Pretty sure my OnePlus One will last me another year or so, and by then I'll be able to move on to something new.
 
Lets see if I can get the order right

HTC Aria
HTC Inspire
HTC Titan
Dell Streak 5
LG Optimum G Pro
LG Optimus G
Atrix HD
Lumia 925
LG G3
Samsung Galaxy Alpha
Lumia 640
Nexus 6

Eyeballing the S7 and the LG G5, i'll be getting one of those once the G5 launches and I can properly compare the two
 
Think it all started with a Nokia 3610 or something.

From there it's been a few iPhone and droids but I can't recall their names
 
Nokia Lumia 800 (? Not sure about number)
Samsung Galaxy S4
iPhone 6S+

I plan on going back to android if one of the manufacturers can produce a phone high quality enough in next few years.
 
iPhone 3GS
iPhone 4
iPhone 4S
iPhone 5
iPhone 5s
S5
iPhone 6 Plus
S6
iPhone 6s Plus
Note 5


I've had two phones over the last few years. Currently got a 6s plus and the Note 5 for work.
 
I was a hold out for a long time, I had a flip phone up til the iPhone 4, then went to Galaxy s3 and I'm using a note 4 currently.
 
MotoG (1st gen)

Yup, that is my current timeline of cellphone right now. I might upgrade to another android phone in few months once my phone plan expire here.
 
Hmm

Galaxy S2
iPhone 4S
iPhone 5S
Lumia 1020. Got this for very cheap.

I still use my 5S and don't plan on getting the SE.
 
I was late to the party, an iPhone 5c is all I've ever had. Switched from Verizon to t-Mo (unlimited int'l data is a godsend for work).

I actually liked the looks of Windows phones, but alas. Wish Amazon did better with theirs.
 
iPhone 3G,
HTC Aria,
Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket,
Nexus 4,
LG G2,
LG G4,
iPhone 5s.

Only reason I have the 5s is because I have an itch to play around with an iPhone again and my mom gave me her old one. The screen size is a bit troublesome for me though.
 
iPhone 3g
iPhone 4
iPhone 5
iPhone 6

I'm gonna stick to the 6 indefinitely until im ready to switch to windows phone.
 
Lumia 900
Lumia 520

I'm poor :(

That Lumia 900 was really cool at the time, but my current one is starting to age really poorly, not to mention the lack of app support. Hoping to jump on the iPhone SE train at some point this year.
 
iPhone
iPhone 3G
HTC Touch Diamond
HTC HD2
HTC Hero
Nokia N900
iPhone 3GS
iPhone 4
Nexus One
Galaxy Nexus
iPhone 5
Nexus 4
Galaxy Note 4
Nexus 6P

Took me a while to settle with Android. I always wanted a Motorola Droid too, but they weren't available in the UK.
 
jesus how have people gone through so many phones?

mine is just

iPhone 4
iPhone 6+

and this is over a 5 year period.
 
I swear I've done this before.

Well I only got a cell phone in 2006 but since then I've been through half a dozen at least. Let's see...

My first was a Motorola candy bar. A Net10 phone. Cheap but not too cheap. I actually had a shittier $20 phone for a day before I decided to return it and buy a $100 much better model because I knew I'd be using it for a while and didn't want to limit myself. Of course it was still a pre-smartphone, a few months before the iPhone was even introduced. Keyboards were a luxury so of course this one didn't have one. Man those early days of typing out text messages with a number keypad. I don't even know the names of those two models. Some random numbers and letters. Fuck it. Not even worth Googling. I've done it before and I even still own the phone, but who knows where it is.

Now my third, which would be my second main phone, was a Net10 too but it was a bit better. It was made for media. So it had a neat speaker built-in, slid open (Though still a number pad) upwards (Never owned a flip phone. Only sliders.) and could play MP3 files. So it had a MicroSD slot in it. However I didn't use it for music playback since I preferred to use an iPod for that. But I did take advantage of being able to have real ringtones for once.

Then in 2010 I switched to Virgin since it looked like Net10 wasn't going to have good enough phones for me. At this point they still didn't have any keyboard phones. So I bought an LG Rumor Touch. It was what I guess you'd call a "Smartphone wannabe". It had an OS with a touch screen and a slide-out keyboard and the ability to use Java apps so it could feel like a smart phone, but it wasn't a smart phone even by those standards. This was even years after the iPhone and Android existed. So you could tell they were trying to mimic the capabilities while still keeping the cost low. I only had this one for a few months before Virgin started finally selling Android phones...

Yes my next phone was an Android. It was... well it was the cheapest you could get at the time while having a real smartphone OS. It worked well for what it needed to do. I could install apps and do all the modern stuff. It kind of had GPS kind of but not really. But it also had a teeny tiny built-in storage amount and even though I had a 2GB SD card installed, Android at the time had a lot of restrictions for certain apps and therefore 90% of the apps I wanted needed to be installed on the internal memory. So I was A) not even able to take advantage of the 2GB I had and B) was constantly juggling apps. Removing apps and installing others. It was more trouble than it was worth. So of course the very day Virgin started selling iPhones...

After a year and a half with the Android phone Virgin started selling actual honest to god iPhones in June 2012. Not limited phones like the cheap Android I had, but a real iPhone. But the catch was it cost $650. It was an iPhone 4S but it was still expensive. Though that's what you get when you go prepaid. I gladly paid that $650 and was the first person in town to own one. If not the only one in town to ever pay that much for a prepaid 4S. Since I also owned an iPod touch and already had iCloud syncing of all my contacts and data, I gleefully turned down the Radio Shack guy when he asked if I wanted him to transfer my contacts from my Android. I literally had everything synced by the time I got to my car. I had that phone for 2 years until my next and current phone...

Next and most recently, in 2014 I got a white iPhone 5C. I love it. It was half the price that the 4S was. Plus Virgin was having a sale. I think it was 20% off. There's not much to say about it really. It works fine. The 4G is fast when I have coverage. It works great and fine. However I'm just biding my time before I can afford a 6S+. I'm ready to take the leap into a bigger phone. It'll cost me a bit more than my 4S did when I do though. But it'll be worth it. As much as I want to wait for the 7. Would be nice if Virgin had a sale by that time. 20% off would be a nice chunk of change. I would be replacing both my phone and tablet at once. I find I don't really use my tablet much at all if ever. So why keep it around. I'll just replace both devices at once. Big phone. Big laptop. Thing is I've only played with one for a few minutes. I haven't given it the "every day test" yet. Will it be too big? Unwieldy? I dunno. But it'll be fun to find out. Mostly I want the Plus model because of the extra stuff iOS does on it. The normal 4.7" model doesn't do some things. If I'm going big phone, I'm going all out.

Sorry I got a lot more wordy than everyone else.
 
Samsung Galaxy II
iPhone 4s
iPhone 6
iPhone 6s
iPhone 6s+
iPhone 6s

Decided to try the Plus size after switching carriers, didn't care for it.
 
HTC something or other
Samsung Galazy S3
Nexus
LG G3
Lumia that I never used
Samsung Galaxy S4
iPhone 4
"Bush Phone"



Those are all the phones I can remember, but if I'm honest I go through several phones a year with my temper....

Getting better though. I've only broken one this year so far
 
  • LG Optimus V
  • HTC Evo 4G
  • Samsung Galaxy S3
  • Samsung Galaxy S4 <- Only because Samsung Galaxy S3 didn't support T-Mobile's LTE frequency
 
jaxapollo said:
iPhone 8GB
iPhone 3G 8GB
iPhone 3GS 16GB
iPhone 4 16GB
iPhone 4S 32GB
iPhone 5 32GB
iPhone 5c 16GB
iPhone 6+ 128GB
iPhone 6S 64GB
(Soon) iPhone 5SE 64GB

#iPhonez4lyfe
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oruntilWPdoesntsuck
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basically this.. Just not the 4s, 5 and 5c or the 6+. Just add 5s and take away the 5se.

I had a Verizon "smart phone" I think it was the NZ or some shit. It had a keyboard lol
 
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