What was Sup Forums's first smartphone? And how much did you like it/hate it?

What was Sup Forums's first smartphone? And how much did you like it/hate it?
Do you miss it?
Mine was pick related
Sony Ericsson Xperia X8
No flash, not zoom, no way to refocus the camera, no multi-touch screen but honestly, it was comfy af
It could go a day or two without charging it and it only had a 1200 mah battery, and fit perfectly in that small pocket trousers have on the right side where clocks were supposed to go
If only it had a dual touch screen it would make the perfect gba emulator machine

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Sony Ericsson xperia x10 mini pro.

Could see the pixels and the screen was tiny, but that keyboard was comfy as fuck.

Also, what are some classic must haves from back then? Shit like pimp my rom .

HTC P3600.

It was shit and slow on windows mobile 6.

O2 XDA back in the day.

iPhone 4. I know it's a meme but I never saw the usage of it until I got it. Oh what I was missing out on.

Samsung Galaxy S3 (international i9300), still have it.

Pretty good to be honest. Thinking about upgrading to S7 Edge.

never owned one

I still don't have one, I use phone for calls nothing else.

I used to crave that phone so much
It looked like mine but slightly upgraded
That looks a lot like the final versions of pre-touch Symbian
Hadnt seen that one before
Smartphones didn't become much of a thing here until android and the iphone
I had to ditch the X8 once it broke
For some reason the Wi-Fi stopped working completely
It was hardware related, so I got a second hand phone instead

This faggot right here. Still worked last time I plugged it in.

3650 was rad. 8/10

does that even qualify as smartphone

>What was Sup Forums's first smartphone?
Nokia 5500
>And how much did you like it/hate it?
Loved that little fucker, besides the fact that the battery life was shit. Only about one week, with little use. Was a quite shitty battery life, back in the day. Oh my, how far we have regressed. And the camera wasnt really useful for anything, besides taking very rough "sketches" of my sourroundings.
But other than that: 9/10.
>Do you miss it?
Kinda. I miss the battery life, and its robustness. I still have it, and it still works perfectly fine, but browsing with your modern shitweb is really a pain in the ass on it. Also, writing mails with T9 doesnt really rock.

>be me
>be commuting to uni in a train
>read the engadget (back, when they were actually good) lifeblog of apples misterious event
>steve jobs introduces the first iphone
>magical!
>revolutionary!
>WTF? I am doing all what you describe right now!

Mine was the HTC touch. It ran a shitty version of windows mobile that was super slow and everything was so small you had to basically use the stylus that was included on the side. It was pretty cool and high tech at the time though.

Do Iphone 3G count? If yes, it was awful.

It was dreadful. At the beginning it wasn't that bad, but soon apps starting getting bigger and it turned into a fucking nightmare.

Ah you think touch is your ally? You merely adopted the touch. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see multitouch until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding!

>What was Sup Forums's first smartphone?
HTC Touch HD

>And how much did you like it/hate it?
I can't say I loved it but I definitely didn't hate it. On the one hand I liked the fast processor, the big screen and the utility of a smartphone, but on the other hand I really missed the physical keypad and the stable, simple to use OS of a normal mobile phone.

>Do you miss it?
Hell no. I was using it up until the release of Samsung Galaxy S5 which I currently own and use. By the time I stopped using my HTC, it was already 6 years old and overused. It served me pretty well, but when compared to todays smartphones, it's nothing but a piece of slow, unresponsive garbage.

Bruh. It ran GBA, GB/C, SNES, Genesis and whatnot emulators back in 2000s. On 8 MB of fucking ram yo.
Also symbian made me start programming in the first place. Would go back to using it even now. Although n70 would be my pick due to camera quality

I had 4 X8's. I had a LOT of fun with them. The folks over at github.com/TeamFun did wonders to it, especially people like laufersteppenwolf, Achep, GermainZ and Doixanh, nobodyAtall made it awesome.

Some of the things they did to the X8:

> Enabled Multi Touch with fake kernel module
> Made custom kernels and ROMS all the way up to Android 4.2.2
> Supported the phone for over 5 years, most supported phone on XDA

And many others.

Also djnilse i forgot, he brought the first Touch Recovery to the X8.

github.com/djnilse/android_bootable_recovery

Telstra qwertytouch, parents bought it for my 14tn birthday.
It sucked ass, but it was free so idgaf

>What was Sup Forums's first smartphone?
HTC Touch Pro.

>how much did you like it/hate it?
It was awesome. I still miss physical keyboards.

Nokia 6630. I liked it a lot

> mfw people with their first smartphone being something newer than iPhone
Wtf, how old are you??

Mine was also Xperia X8.


Got the original HTC Desire with a broken power button and an X8. Any idea what I can do with these?

Double this. 6630 had an amazing camera back in the day. Also this was the king of money/quality in all the phones I ever had. It was n70 but 1/2 th eprice. Battery life, keyboard, dpad, cpu, everything. I remember releasing python scripts to automate timelapse taking, that's how amazing this phone was.

Now that I think about it - this market was so open. Even camera apps sucked dicks to the point that kid-made scripts were popular lol.

Mine was corby 2. Hardly a smartphone, mediocre camera,etc. but it was a solid little brick. When I upgraded to a newer phone, I still use it as secondary phone (dayjob and shit) and as a mp3 player until one day the phone bricked and I can't do shit with it.

Samsung Corby. Does that count?

LG GT540 Swift

Loved it.
It was cheap low end and good custom rom community with plenty of tweaks available making it run like a dream.

I only moved on because the screen became unresponsive in places after about 3 years.

I had this one too. I installed a fuckton of custom roms on it (muh 800mhz overclock just for playing falling fred), then got curious and mounted /efs. Hardbrick. Swapped it for a Moto C115.

Had one of those cheap Huawei Windows phones first. It was ok.

Then got a second hand iPhone 4. It was pretty shitty.

Then got a second hand galaxy s3.

Now I'm on galaxy s6 as my daily driver.

Looking forward to bigger phones. My stubby thumbs require more space for comfy writing.

Motorola Q9h, I stayed dumbphone for quite a while. I keep going back to the q9h though, its a pretty solid phone. Even if windows mobile isn't particularly nice.

The hardware of it was great. Well built metalic body ,Epic camera and fm transmitter. Also the 16gb memory was something ahead of its time.

Only the symban was awful. I still have it ,only the battery is pretty much dead. Still love the camera quality more than my Sony Z5 camera.

>16gb memory
Come the fuck on. You're on Sup Forums right now, stop using the term "memory" incorrectly god dammit.

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My children. One on the left was my first smartphone, Moto Rokr.

pic related it blew my fucking mind. VGA camera, expandable memory (MMC card lol). Actual web/wap browsing and a proper OS.

I almost bought one again recently just for the nostalgia


less than a year later some nigger stole it at the library

chronological

Still have one of these laying around.

Samsung Galaxy Ace, I liked a lot, but it had very Little internal memory, and some bugs that took months to get patch, that forced me to learn about root and flashing roms

It was just as awkward to type on as it looks, and the joystick was shitty, but Symbian was absolutely mindblowing back in the day.

I ended up bricking mine by flashing the wrong firmware unfortunately.

Dama, I still have my X8 with some custom 2.3 rom, this phone was a godsend flashed so many rom's and mods to it.

I had one of this and it was a beast. I had what in those days was considered a metric fuck ton of porn on it. I used to distribute it via Bluetooth to other people in school. I was known as the Porn Baron. Shit was cash.

Kids these days think Apple invented smartphones. This thing had it all. First phone I saw that could record videos. It had Java apps and you could even get a GPS attachment for it and a maps app.

This masterpiece. It was the best at the time, I really regret Nokia fucked up.

Some cheap used LG phone from ebay for $20.

My next was LG Optimus G E970 for about $160

Currently on Samsung S5 that I bought for about $135.

I will only buy last gen's phones because I have no need for high end expensive shit. As long as features are good and its usable, I'm happy.

You would like a Xiaomi phone. They update their phones for a very long time.

First name.
Jon Reece.

NOT SMARTPHONES

how the fuck do you define smartphones then?

How is phone with literally desktop OS is not a smartphone?

Android Dev Phone 1

12 year old detected

>camera quality
Man, I had an N70 and the camera was atrocious. I think it was the N73 that had the better camera. You know, the one that swiveled around in weird ways.

That thing was amazing, a friend of my father had one and I remember playing games on it. Built like a fucking brick shithouse too.

nokia E51

>What was Sup Forums's first smartphone?
Samsung Star 1 wifi
And how much did you like it/hate it?
Hate a lot, proprietary connectors for audio and recharge/otg (which broke all the time)
truly java based (the os run on java and all the apps were .jar and only that), lol memory, had so many limitations Oh and the shit touch even with the pen
>Do you miss it?
still have it but couldn't use it anyway as backup cuz the connectors are all shit

Galaxy S
Galaxy S II
Galaxy Note II
Galaxy Note 4
Out of all four I loved S II the most. Literally perfect. The galaxy S wasn't still quite there yet but it was okay.

Nexus S. Watching my buddies root their phones and type in cryptic shell commands got me interested in Linux

Stubbornly stuck to feature phones until I bought a Tracfone LG Ultimate 2. Typing on it now, hope to port out of Tracfone this summer and get something more powerful. It got a shit-ton better once I rooted it but the screen is pretty much unusable on a sunny day and its stuck on KitKat with no custom roms in sight.

>Tracfone
You could not have chosen a worse carrier

The G1/ HTC Dream - the very first Android phone.
I really liked the design
>Slick black
>QWERTY keyboard
>little mouse
>trackball

However, the internals fucking blew. The processing power sucks dick, you can barely do shit and it lags constantly.
I would love a modern take with the same externals

What's wrong with Tracfone? I currently have two phones. One that can make calls (Tracfone) and one that cannot that serves as my normal Android smartphone (with WiFi). When I want to make calls or text, I use Tracfone. When I want to use Android apps, I use smartphone. I'm almost always connected to WiFi which isn't a problem. I can also save a lot of money since Tracfone is only $7/month for 60 minutes each month (more than enough).

sony ericsson m600i

fuck i miss that thing

I guess if you rarely use your phone Tracfone is viable, but their payment plan can cause monstrous bills if you actually use your

i believe it was the N93, had one of those, very cool phone

He is a child who needs shitty touchscreens to define it as smartphone

2011 or so, HTC Desire HD
Do not miss it, it was terrible on stock. If I hadn't rooted, this would have been unusable.
>Gingerbread
>GPS doesn't work at all even if started outside
>youtube barely works
>shitty unreplaceable interface
>single core
>camera sucks
Rooting was a little hard but I did it in a day or so. Installed JB rom, night and day difference. No lag and GPS worked every time.

2012, Samsung Galaxy SIII
>stock is shit
>most easy phone to root ever
>a couple days of pain of shitty crashing roms
>finally find an AOKP one that works great
Been on this ever since, very happy with it and not looking to replace it unless it dies.

HTC Kaiser.

Man, I wish phones still had hardware keyboards.

BlackBerry's got your back

>Samsung Galaxy 3 Apollo
a fucking desaster for a first Smartphone

after that came the Galaxy S2 wich was decent, moving forward to Nexus 4 and now Nexus 6P.
Since i've moved my back to Samsung everything went better than expected, alltough i DID like the S2.
I'd probably bought the S3 too if the design would not had to be changed becaus of crapple.

Didn't see the use of a smartphone before, so I got late into them.
However, my first was the G2 mini, which I still have today.
>decent camera
>good battery
>decent specs
I liked it and I still do, now have a G4 and I'm happy af with it

A Nokia 5800 in 2010. Biggest phone mistake of my life.
First Android: Galaxy SII, still fucking love it but is ageing sadly.

Samsung Galaxy s2

I liked it at first because the touch screen was a step up from stuff id used before.

After using for a bit you realize its cheap plastic. It killed itself with the antenna battery leak problem but Samsung wouldn't replace because the water ingress paper had changed colour.

I used it in a waterproof case so this was bullshit most likely water vapor got inside the shitty plastic constructed shell.

Put me off Samsung phones for life once I got a Sony because it had non of the strange issues that the Samsung had which I thought was just the form factor.

I've killed a few Sony phones so I just get whatever is decent from China since smartphones are disposable.

I miss dumbphones that don't shatter into a million pieces of glass and plastic.

>personal tracking devices just in case you need to get arrested for something

I want normies to leave

Phones are for phone calls, computers are for computers

Smartphones are for faggots

I had an Optimus T. I loved this little thing, slow as fuck and it had an awful plastic screen but it was a huge novelty to me.

I only ended up having it for a year or so before Microsoft went crazy trying to promote Windows Phone 7 and I traded that thing in for an HTC Titan for free. That one I still have laying around.

Unless you blow through a lot of data it doesn't cost any extra to have active Tracfone service on a smartphone. The minute cards also triple for the three buckets so you could call and text even more for the same money. My main issue is their attrociuos customer service. My cell phone is my only phone and I shudder at the thought of being without it while Tracfone gives me the runaround if there are any problems. I could lose my job if the boss cant call me. Last time I had problems it took a month to get it sorted. At least if I buy prepaid service from a major carrier I can walk into a real store and get real help from a person that speaks English and actually has the means to fix problems.

Whoops, fucked that up.

>>personal tracking devices just in case you need to get arrested for something

sir i think you left your tinfoil here, please take it before leaving to

s2 was great what u talking about
best phone i ever had

I dunno if this would classify as one, but this was the first one I've ever used. This was laying around the house and I got sick of using my LG Neon, so I switched to this and used it before getting a Galaxy S II.

It was great if you didn't get a faulty unit.

They had a major issue with the Antennas failing.

Nexus One. It was amazing. The trackball thing was fucking awesome, the build quality was nice (except for the power button), it had good battery life and specs. Also, since at the time android phones were almost non-existant (at least in my country), friends were pretty curious about the phone. Shit like metal detector, barcode and QR code reader and that fucking amazing Google skymaps thing did not exist in iphones at the time so it blew their minds.

Forgot pic.

Here's your reminder that if you own a cell phone then you might as well let the government install a telescreen in your home.
>the NSA actively collects bulk metadata on cell phone connections to cell towers and stores it for months at a time in their FASCIA database, allowing them to look you up in their database and see a map of your travel habits, they also now give all other 3 letter agencies access to this data
>in all cell phones with only a couple exceptions (such as the Blackphone and Neo900) the baseband processor, which controls the cell phone's connection to the cell tower, has complete access to the phone's main CPU and RAM, allowing complete back door access to your cell phone with simple exploits which are easy for the government to develop because they can request the baseband firmware from companies for a security audit
>police departments regularly deploy stingrays for tracking cell phones and their owners and intercepting texts/calls

Let's say I'm a man with a fuckton of CP.

If I'm on LTE, they're reading randomly from my RAM/storage at about 20Mbps until they find something? Seems a little time-consuming and pointless.

Why are you worried about spying when all you do is sit in the basement all day.

Just leave your phone at home if you actually go outside.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro. Loved the keyboard, the camera, but it was slow as fuck, especially after the ics update. I miss it sometimes, though.

galaxy tab 2. shits still alive and kicking..

They dont have to send the whole file back, just a checksum of it.
If the checksum matches to a known CP file, then busted.
Windows 10 did this for a while.

Good thing I don't have any known CP files.

>tracking is bad, dont thread on mee , gubernment leave me alone

gee its like i have a smartphone and have enabled precision GPS already because its a useful feature i use.

Why should i be worried? You want privacy just for the sake of it?
i can sleep at night , it seems you can't
>the boogeyman is out there for ya

I had Xperia ray, loved it. I wouldn't say it was slow on GB, but the ICS update ruined it. I just reflashed stock 2.3 and used it for another year. Great little phone, very decent camera and beautiful android skin (remember kids, it was before stock android started to look good).

> just a checksum of it.
Potentially sha1 or alike.

motorola atrix

being able to shitpost about how i had a FP reader years before the 5s was glorious.

should not have sold it.

First of all, I never made any claims about remotely scanning your storage. Second of all, if they were to do that it would be done be done by hashing everything locally and then sending back the hashes for comparing to a database, not sending everything on your flash storage over the network. My computer's HDD has 285183 files on it and 512 bit SHA-3 would take up 64 bytes per file (it's possible that they could use a shorter hash length but they would end up with a higher chance of false positives), which would mean hashes of every file on my hard drive would only take up 18.25 MB and with lighter 256 bit SHA-3 could be cut down to 9.13 MB. Depending on how close of attention you pay to your data usage you might not even notice that. Also, they could check on your phone to see how often you use wifi vs data and have the malware wait to send the data over wifi instead if it's clear that you don't use data a lot.

>Just leave your phone at home if you actually go outside.
Really?

>have enabled precision GPS already because its a useful feature i use
>tracking method posted had nothing to do with GPS

Sounds like motivation to make your own CP

HTC touch diamond here,l man those were the days of flashing WinMo builds and early touchflo 3D

>most supported phone on XDA
The HTC HD2 begs to differ, your X8 never ran marshmallow

Samsung Galaxy Mini.

It was slow as fuck, the battery was terrible and the speaker was shit.

I hate it.

>Phones are for phone calls, computers are for computers
>Smartphones are for faggots
i meant that if the govt has already the means to track and check you,it's always been like this, i just use a smartphone and dont sperg about it, GPS is just a tracking method i mentioned.
there are backdoors on everything.

why are you so concerned man? just focus on your life and dont waste time being paranoid
>become a hermit
or
stop bitching about muh security muh data, you should know you already lost