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The other thread is nice, but lets change it up a bit and post our first smart phones and the experience we had with them.
Technically, my first smart phone was an iPhone 4. However, because the 4S just came out two days after I got my phone in the mail, AT&T allowed me to upgrade for free (shocking, right).
I was a freshman in high school and I absolutely loved this device. When I became a senior I moved onto Android but I came back to iOS.
I loved this thing so much. I really wish they'd make a newer version of it. I literally used this thing like a laptop.
>>51865157
>iPhone 4
>released GSM model (black): June 24, 2010
>I was a freshman in high school
underaged bait go away
I had had no phone for five years when I got my iPhone 4. The only decent phone that was released in 2010.
not sure which apps to download desu guys
>>51865198
Samsung Wave S8500
A shame Bada was a deadborn beauty
>>51865157
>>51865157
I loved it because I was a loser and thought it really was Windows but on a phone!
>tbqh I like Microsoft still, they have cool stuff. But I kind of miss the XP days when they were all about businesses.
>>51865494
22 next june m8
>>51866634
WP was shit until the last few years, now they are seriously better than iOS and cheaper than Android.
>>51865157
does an iphone qualify as a smart phone? you cant even install apps unless you get them out of their store... the nokia 3310 did that and i wouldnt call it a "smart phone" by todays standard
>>51866704
I know, I have a Windows 10 phone now. Maybe it's just nostalgia.
It was actually really cool, I miss it.
Sony Ericsson k750i
It didn't have a touch screen but could play videos, go online and check emails.
The camera was shit but the ergonomic was great, the battery lasted for a week and the OS didn't lag every time you opened an app that used the keyboard.
>>51866758
No, it's really not.
For the typical user, WP is the best choice. For the advanced IT professional user, Android is the best choice because it has some IT apps that windows currently lacks. For people who see phones as status symbols and look down on people for having "poor" phones, iPhones are the go to.
tfw poor join the party late
>>51866834
How is Windows phone a good choice for the typical user when it is lacking many, many apps?
The interface is a mess, things are inconsistent, basic applications are missing, basic feature are missing, and you suggest it for anyone but geeks?
Nah.
>>51866834
No I mean me missing "old" Microsoft is probably nostalgia. Windows 10 mobile is brilliant.
>>51866881
It's not 2011 anymore m8.
>>51866920
People using the Lumia 950 tend to disagree.
>>51865496
I mostly use it for listening to music.
Very durable, broke some noses with it.
>>51865494
He was like 16 in freshman year?!?!? Yea okkii
>>51866944
May I ask how?
It was a pos
>>51866937
>WebM
You mean Google's standard? Shocker only Android supports it out of the box.
>Torrent
To a phone? Why?
>Basic Music player
I don't really find it that basic, I mean it supports .flac out of the box which is pretty nifty.
>>51866997
>nokia
the volvo of smartphones
>>51867032
More than just that comment, but Windows 10 still isn't as usable as something like a Galaxy or an iPhone to the average person
Their basic, favorite apps are fucking missing, and people will just return the phone.
>>51867043
God damn. I wonder how anon broke noses with it kek
>>51867061
Well, you're wrong. But it doesn't matter because admittedly the stereotype is there and they aren't easily changed.
A file explorer, the holy grail of /g/'s mobile computing actually comes standard in WP10 whereas you have to root/jailbreak on a Galaxy/iPhone.
>>51867168
Also MicroSD support and replaceable batteries.
Really /g/ should love Windows 10 phones.
>>51867168
The typical smartphone user doesn't give a fuck about a file browser on their phone
>>51866731
what a dumb post
I liked the little ball.
This piece of shit. Smart phone? This one had Down Syndrome
Atrix 4G
Was fast as fuck at first then shit the bed towards the end, it would freeze in the middle of YouTube videos and the only way to fix it was to take the battery out. I did love the side charging port though, I wish that was a standard feature on phones
>>51870690
Forgot pic
>>51865198
I had two, the keyboards would eventually stop responding. That was back when i had unlimited data with att and would use 15+ gb/mo. I loved that phone. There aren't enough oled screens around, for tvs or monitors either. Once you have a phone with an oled screen nothing else compares. I miss you impression.
Treo 650, such an awesome phone. I still have it, still works after 10 years. Survived lots of shocks, a dog once grabbed it with its teeth and ran away with it. The battery lasts a few days, even though it has swollen. Too bad I lost the stylus. It can use SD cards. Runs Palm OS which was probably the best mobile OS back in the days.
Well Apple took inspiration from Palm (Lifedrive+phone) when they made the '' revolutionary '' iPhone so Palm used to be top dogs in the smartphone business back then.
![kyocera-milano-sprint-keyboard-lg[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/eQmWlHr.jpg "kyocera-milano-sprint-keyboard-lg[1]")
this sexy device
>>51867025
That was also my first smartphone. It was cheap trash
>>51871066
not a smart phone
>>51871500
Twas one of the first smartphones, look it up
by HTC
Motorola Defy
Overclocked it from 0,8 to 1,2 GHz, added a bigger battery later, still have it as a backup phone.
This nigga right here
Was a fucking champ.
This magnificent bastard right here. First phone I could watch porn on.
>>51865157
iShit 4, I had some Pocket PC phones before that but I never actually had them on a plan, I just used them for the Pocket PC part.
>>51866634
Same, I love how task-oriented Windows Mobile used to be, also just the way it felt; more like a tiny personal computer for getting real work done instead of the shitty handheld social media telescreens modern smartphones have become.
this beauty, was my first phone was 7th grade
Samsung Mesmerize (SCH-I500). Basically my carrier's rip-off flavor of the Galaxy S. The lowest memory-having of any of the variants (384 MB of RAM), but otherwise top notch for the time. 2GB internal storage, came with a free 16GB card (back in 2010/2011). It's actually not even bad by today's standards as far as speed.
I still use it as a daily as an Android "iPod Touch", or a really small tablet. Just surfing the internet and playing games so I don't drain my current phone's battery.
Also, I got an extended battery for the thing for like $12, and now with screen on full brightness, CPU maxed, camera flash on, I get around 9 hours of use. Realistic usage I get over 35 hours.
LG optimus l9
It was shit
Ended up rooting it with cydia impactor
Until it bent
ENOUGH WITH THE FUCKING 16 and 17 YEAR OLDS
MASTERFUCKING RACE REPORTING IN.
No really, W995 2011-2015, W902 2008-2011, W850 2006-2008, 3220 2004-2006
>>51866631
are you even old enough to be on this board son
This. I fucking loved it, weird-ass screen space robbing Sense and all. Quickly upgraded to the Incredible when that came out. SO many phones since then.
>No Nokia N9
Holy shit, the average age of /g/ must be under 21.
>>51872913
Whoops, meant N900. It's been awhile
>>51872877
Forgot 3330 2001-2004
>pic related,
tethered to a first gen iPod touch. Middle school was a blast. I also had a zune. Me and my best friend would send hentai all day to each other and wig out all the kids. Then my tethered ipot came along.
>>51872908
Jeebus, it's so bizarre when I look at that pic. A track ball, physical buttons, a row of haptic buttons and then on-screen buttons. The fucking thing was all buttons.
Mistakes were made.
>>51866785
By that logic, my first was also a K750i, followed by a Palm Treo. Other than that, first real "smart phone" was a HTC Wildfire.
$10 moto G
My first was a Samsung Galaxy Prevail. Not bad one cyanogenmod was installed. Still have the damn thing in my closet somewhere.
HTC Shadow in sage and then the OG Droid
Lg Optimus Hub E510. I rooted this sucker in 2 months after getting it because it came out of the box laggy, and at the time I didn't even know what a custom launcher was. Camera was absolute trash.
pretty GOAT i'd say
Only switched because the android ricing shit on /g/ got me
Solid experience
>>51866419
shuttle
nova launcher
polycon
file manager of some kind
sunrise calendar
zooper widgets
Digital clock Xperia (my favourite clock widget)
Screen notifications (allows you to allow certain apps to turn on the screen upon notification)
your favourite social media apps
This one. I keep forgetting how tiny it was. I got it on a contract while living in the Netherlands in 2011, and I paid like 25 bucks a month for 1 year, too and it was a super sweet deal on a special offer. Two of my other friends got it too and it was our thing for getting onto the smartphone hype.
It was actually pretty decent, plastic samshit, but cheap and durable, screen never shattered and it could handle all apps I needed like maps, email, browsing, whatsapp, etc. quite well.
>>51871788
You are wrong, same as anyone posting old Windows Phone/Palm devices in this thread. Those things were generally called either pda or palmphones, palmtops for the ones without gsm module. Technically those things were smartphones, however the term smartphone didn't really exist until iPhone and early Android models.
I used to be really into PDA and owned multiple, both wp and palm ones so I know what I'm talking about. I still have some of those (Blue Angel, Universal and 2 hella old monochrome palms)
>>51874378
Also it was Windows Mobile, not Windows Phone back then.
>>51865911
My first smartphone too. Just thinking about it makes me feel the pain of using it.
Solid shit, though touchwiz held it back and I never knew better about smartphones until then. Great camera, screen, and slim bezels for the time. Battery is shit even with a fresh one installed, so the replaceable battery was moot (and doing swaps on the go is an autistic as fuck workaround, battery should be good in the first place)
People will think this is bait but this is the first phone I bought with my own money a few months ago, before that I was given a hand me down Samsung S3 mini which I absolutely loathed, and before that I was also given an iPhone 3GS which was laggy as shit until I downgraded it to iPhone OS 3.1.3
>>51873197
>>51866631
it was one of these or some kind of Huawei by cricket forgot the order. probably cricket then prevail then htch
HTC HD7 in 2010 my junior year of high school.
I think I went WP because I always heard and saw how slow and laggy Android was.
As much as I loved ricing, I didn't need much out of a phone, even as shitty as Windows Phones were back then.
>>51870548
This
It was so shit
>>51874752
I have an s5 currently. What the fuck is a touchwiz
Funnily, I never owned another smartphone until iPhone 3G
>>51865157
What's that tiny screen?
>>51865157
Same thing as me, the first and last iPhone that I ever bought. It was pretty good at the time considering the equivalent Androids were pretty shitty compared to it. It was fast out of the box and had a crispy clear screen.
I wanted more features so I jailbroke it. It progressively became into a laggy piece of shit, and now iOS 7 has practically killed it, the performance is almost unsuable.
The Galaxy S3 I got after this was several orders of magnitudes better. Loved the big screen, microSD, removable battery and Android's out-of-the-box customisability
This counts, right?
I had actually kinda forgotten. It makes me a bit nostalgic to be honest.
>>51867168
>root to use a file explorer on Android
This is what WP users believe.
>>51870548
I miss my G1. That keyboard was fucking amazing.
>>51866944
Same.
Got thrown out a car window and run over by a car also fill off a 3 storey building and still alive.
The champ is still working but got left behind for the new generation.
a galaxy ace
still using it to this day, to be honest
I fucking loved this piece of shit. Had full QWERTY slide out, was a beast. I threw it all the time and it never broke.
![Samsung-Galaxy-240S-SmartPhone[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/yoeaJlv.jpg "Samsung-Galaxy-240S-SmartPhone[1]")
>>51878049
forgot pic
![HTC_Touch2_(MEGA,_T3333)[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Odvu8Br.jpg "HTC Touch2 (MEGA, T3333)[1]")
