Cell Phones You Owned
I'm in the market to replace my old iPhone 5s; made me think of all the obsolete devices I sent to family in the Philippines. If you see anyone walking around still texting on one of these, it's prob. my fault:
-Nokia 5110 : A lot of people's probable 'first.' Hung out in my glove box forgotten, since there wasn't much to do with it; the battery lasted months. Had a shiny red faceplate and snake.
-Nokia 3595 : Girl I had a crush on in the dorms helped me select custom buttons/faceplates at mall kiosks. It was tricked out like a '98 Integra
-Motorola V551 : What a terrible phone. It turned of whenever I closed it, and shuffled my texts randomly. My first phone with "games" and "camera"
-Samsung Blackjack : Unlike the (then-recent) iPhone 1 , this had 3G! My band's drummer was impressed it did porn. The keypad was horrible, Windows Mobile was unstable, and battery was poor; it had two switchable ones (plus charger separate from the phone, and separate back-plates to fit each battery)
-iPhone 3Gs : I plugged it into the USB slot of a rental car which fried the charging board; it then only charged when powered off, and wouldn't sync. As a result it was stuck on iOS 4 (not a terrible thing)
-iPhone 4 : The physical buttons (volume, home) had a very short half-life and all either quit working or required excessive force. IOS 7 destroyed it, till I disabled all the transparency and background app stuff; became only somewhat useable and soured me on updating my phone ever again
-iPhone 5s : Still going strong, despite being "bent;" though it feels like it's going to fall apart. I kept it on the original iOS 7 as long as I could stand, it's on 10 now and hesitant to go to 11 based on performance concerns. Really hate how fragile the aluminum case is compared to the 4 . Probably going 6s if I can find a cheap one
-Nokia 5110 : A lot of people's probable 'first.' Hung out in my glove box forgotten, since there wasn't much to do with it; the battery lasted months. Had a shiny red faceplate and snake.
-Nokia 3595 : Girl I had a crush on in the dorms helped me select custom buttons/faceplates at mall kiosks. It was tricked out like a '98 Integra
-Motorola V551 : What a terrible phone. It turned of whenever I closed it, and shuffled my texts randomly. My first phone with "games" and "camera"
-Samsung Blackjack : Unlike the (then-recent) iPhone 1 , this had 3G! My band's drummer was impressed it did porn. The keypad was horrible, Windows Mobile was unstable, and battery was poor; it had two switchable ones (plus charger separate from the phone, and separate back-plates to fit each battery)
-iPhone 3Gs : I plugged it into the USB slot of a rental car which fried the charging board; it then only charged when powered off, and wouldn't sync. As a result it was stuck on iOS 4 (not a terrible thing)
-iPhone 4 : The physical buttons (volume, home) had a very short half-life and all either quit working or required excessive force. IOS 7 destroyed it, till I disabled all the transparency and background app stuff; became only somewhat useable and soured me on updating my phone ever again
-iPhone 5s : Still going strong, despite being "bent;" though it feels like it's going to fall apart. I kept it on the original iOS 7 as long as I could stand, it's on 10 now and hesitant to go to 11 based on performance concerns. Really hate how fragile the aluminum case is compared to the 4 . Probably going 6s if I can find a cheap one
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Motorola RAZR
LG Semi-Smart Phone w/fancy slide out keyboard
Motorola Droid - the OG smartphone
Samsung Galaxy S4
Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge
Samsung Note 5
Samsung Note 8
Android FTW
Motorola E815 (Verizon. Never once used the Vcast on this. Used proprietary headphones which was annoying.)
Samsung Trance (mine was the red one.)
Motorola Droid X (I would have kept this if it didn't start killing batteries one day for some reason.)
Motorola Droid Turbo 2 (current phone.)
edit: I should add that I still have every one of these in a desk drawer except for the Droid X, which I had to turn over to get $200 credit towards accessories for the Turbo 2 and a free tablet.
Nextel "Beep Beep" Flip Phone
Verizon Voyager
Verizon Droid 2
Samsung Galaxy
Samsung Galaxy S4
Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge
As best as I remember anyway.
Updated to some flip-phone in 2005, I think.
HTC Evo whenever that was relatively new.
Motorola G (first gen) -- still use it (Republic Wireless).
I tend to run my phones into the ground, and now that I'm with Republic (i.e. not in the cycle of financing phones via up-charged phone bills), I have even less enticement to pay for an upgrade.
2007 - Motorola Slvr L6
2008(9?) - Samsung Blackjack II
2011 - HTC Inspire
2012 - iPhone 5
2014 - iPhone 6
2015 - Samsung Galaxy S6
2016 - iPhone 7 plus
Remember when those were cool?
Dont remember after that
Nokia 5190
Samsun SPH-N240 (didn't get service ANYWHERE)
Sanyo flip phone
Another Sanyo flip phone
iPhone 4 (first and LAST iphone)
Samsung Galaxy S5 Active
Samsung Galaxy S8 Active
Palm Trio after that
Verizon Chocolate
Iphone 4s
Windows Nokia Lumia (my favorite)
Currently a Google Pixle, my 2nd favorite by far
Back then we only used our phone for calls and maybe texts not for candy crunchers and snapstagram or whatever you damn kids are into now-a-days *shakes fist*
2. Kyocera K(something) (2004ish) . It had tetris on it
3. Sony Erickson swivel phone(2007) Cingular before AT&T
4. Samsung Sync (2008) ...After the swivel phone screen jacked up the next year I got a insured replacement flip phone they deemed "Similar"
5. Iphone 3G (2009/10)
6. Iphone 4s ~2013/14 (still use this one lol)
2) LG flip phone which I don't remember the model of, just run of the mill flipper of the time.
3) Samsung Blackjack - man I loved this phone. My first successful mobile internet experience, excellent music player, expandable storage. it had it all
4) HTC 2125 - the phone that legends are made of. Everything that Blackjack had and more. A windows phone that had it all AND allowed you to text blindfolded.
LG flip phone
Audiovox something or other
Motorola RAZR
Blackberry something or other
Blackberry Torch
iPhone 4
iPhone 5S
iPhone 6
iPhone 7
My first phone was a Motorola RAZR.
Remember when those were cool?
Dont remember after that
I'm surprised to not see a RAZR in everyone's responses. That was my first, and I thought it was the most common for what felt like a long time.
I can remember only one phone between the RAZR and iPhone 3GS for me. Don't remember the name. But it had limited internet browsing capabilities, slid sideways to reveal a full keyboard, and a very poor touch screen, so I was super psyched about it at the time.
Then iPhone 3GS, 4, 5, 6, 7. I always missed the "S" or whatever years. No plus versions either. Too bulky for my liking.
2014 iPhone 3 hand me down (garbage phone)
2015 htc phone
2016 to present htc1x
I miss the smaller size of my LG flip phones when I'm working
Lg vx8350 (peice of shit, my wife still uses hers)
Verizon chocolate
S3
S5
S7
That's all i remember
My first phone was a Motorola RAZR.
Remember when those were cool?
Dont remember after that
I'm surprised to not see a RAZR in everyone's responses. That was my first, and I thought it was the most common for what felt like a long time.
Weren't they like $400 when they were new?
My first phone was a Motorola RAZR.
Remember when those were cool?
Dont remember after that
I'm surprised to not see a RAZR in everyone's responses. That was my first, and I thought it was the most common for what felt like a long time.
Weren't they like $400 when they were new?
My first phone was a Motorola RAZR.
Remember when those were cool?
Dont remember after that
I'm surprised to not see a RAZR in everyone's responses. That was my first, and I thought it was the most common for what felt like a long time.
Weren't they like $400 when they were new?
Motorola T2260 - First phone, got through Radio Shack, ~2001
Motorola T2260 - Got through Radio Shack after I accidentally broke the original, ~13 months after original phone purchase
Nokia 6600 - Refurbed it myself at work, bought from cell refurbisher I worked at, ~2006
Motorola V600 - Bought at the same time as the 6600, used briefly, preferred 6600, ~2006
Nokia 3300* - Bought from coworker at refurbisher, never used, ~2006
Nokia 3200* - Bought from coworker at refurbisher, never used, ~2006
Nokia 6620 - Bought from coworker at refurbisher, used briefly, preferred 6600, ~2006
Nokia 6170 - Finally replaced 6600, loved functionality & form factor, ~2007
iPhone - 8GB model, picked up based on liking my iPod Touch once jailbreak/unlock was available, ~2009
iPhone 3G - 8GB, upgraded to 3G unexpectedly--paid for phone repair work with old phone, ~2010
iPhone 4 - 16GB, upgraded when jailbreak/unlock was available, ~November 2011
iPhone 4S - 16GB, upgraded as soon as used phones were affordable & could be unlocked, ~2012
iPhone 3GS* - 32GB, received broken from a friend, reburbed & gave to my wife, ~2013
iPhone 5* - 16GB, bought "broken," couldn't use because Sprint phones couldn't be unlocked, ~2014
iPhone 5S - 32GB, bought with broken LCD due to bent case, straightened, daily driver, ~2014
iPhone 6* - 16GB, received broken as Christmas present when sister upgraded, ~2016
First phone: some cheap samsung flip phone - 2004
Razr - 2006
Envy - 2007
Blackberry - 2009
Sprint:
HTC One - 2012
Samsung Galaxy S5 - 2015
Lg vx8300 ( still the best cell phone ive ever had period)
Wow, thanks for that blast from the past! That was one of my favorite phones to work on back when I did that sort of thing. I remember the features being pretty great for what was available at the time and the build quality on those things being top notch, especially when it came down to how relatively easy they were to get popped apart and back together after a quick refurb. With the exception of the weirdness that can befall all phones' power/data ports, the electronics in that thing were built like a tank, even the comparatively delicate display ribbon--can't ever recall having one of those go out when having to replace a dead (physically broken 99% of the time) LCD.
11)OnePlus 5
I'm surprised to not see a RAZR in everyone's responses. That was my first, and I thought it was the most common for what felt like a long time.
Weren't they like $400 when they were new?
They were at first, but Motorola churned them out by the boatload for a long time and they got a lot cheaper, to the point where Moto fell behind the other companies that came out with better phones.
I'm surprised to not see a RAZR in everyone's responses. That was my first, and I thought it was the most common for what felt like a long time.
Weren't they like $400 when they were new?
They were at first, but Motorola churned them out by the boatload for a long time and they got a lot cheaper, to the point where Moto fell behind the other companies that came out with better phones.
Yeah, I took the original comment to mean earlier in the life of the device (when they were not comped by any plans that I recall).
I love their smartphones, though, as they're built like tanks (battery life could be better.)