I had an LG Shine along with two of my best friends at the time. Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I actually loved that phone.
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Pretty sure I had a few, however, the last one that I remember was the Sony Ericsson W880i then jumping over to the iPhone3G when it became available in Australia.
Sony Ericsson W910i imported from Hong Kong.
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A just short of 10 years ago (Feb 2009) is when I purchased my first iPhone 3G.
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A just short of 10 years ago (Feb 2009) is when I purchased my first iPhone 3G.
DSC_0082 by trekkie604, on Flickr
Heading into 2009 I had the Nokia 6500 slide. Upgraded later in the year to a HTC Hero. Held out for the much delayed white iPhone 4 until April 2011 and have been with iOS ever since
2007- samsung voyager the first phone ever dubbed the iphone killer and my first cellphone.
I originally wanted the iphone but at the time I thought they were 500 dollars outright. I had no idea it was 200 with a contract just like every other smartphone at that time. I found out that info well over the 30 days to return the voyager. I had to wait 2 years to get my first iphone which was the 4.
I originally wanted the iphone but at the time I thought they were 500 dollars outright. I had no idea it was 200 with a contract just like every other smartphone at that time. I found out that info well over the 30 days to return the voyager. I had to wait 2 years to get my first iphone which was the 4.
I’ll be honest, I didn’t like the first iPhone at the time and felt there were better options available. As the iPhone got better I became more interested. You could also only get it on O2 and it wasn’t subsidised the way it was in America where I am. It was hideously overpriced for what it was.
So if the 3GS came out in 2009, that's what I was using. I used iPhones ever since the original.
Once 2012 got here, not only did I continue buying each years iPhones, I also started buying Android phones.
This year, I'm using a few XS Max 512GB phones plus a S9+ and a Note 9.
Once 2012 got here, not only did I continue buying each years iPhones, I also started buying Android phones.
This year, I'm using a few XS Max 512GB phones plus a S9+ and a Note 9.
I actually didn’t know a lot about the first iPhone. I remember in 2008 when I wanted to upgrade one of my lines which was on T- mobile back then. I said I wanted a phone that I could listen to music on and watch videos I’d purchased on iTunes. Someone advised me to get a blackberry so I ended up with the blackberry pearl. I hated the thing. The only thing I liked about it was that I could get my emails on it without going on my computer.
In 2009 my upgrade with O2 came round. I still wanted a phone that I could listen to my music on and watch YouTube videos on, my own ripped videos and videos that I’d bought from iTunes. . I’d heard about the iPhone but I thought it must be very expensive. I was going to get the LG Arena and then O2 actually contacted me and offered me the iPhone 3G and the price was reasonable to that’s how I ended up with my first iPhone. After that I got the iPhone 4 and it was because my 4 was stolen that I ended up dabbling in android in 2012 but was back with the iPhone in 2014 and I’ve been with an iPhone ever since.
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2009? iPhone 3GS I think, the 16GB one I think, one contract with O2 who had the UK exclusivity. I came from a Nokia N95 slider phone which I really liked as it had a good camera and had wifi built in (a reasonable rarity back then) and supported 3.5G.
Thing was a hunk of junk lol. I didn’t get a good touchscreen smartphone until I got the GS3.
I didn’t miss the days of the G1.
At this time in 2009 I was still using my iPhone 2G (which I still have and still works, btw), but I got the 3GS when it launched later in the year. Now using a 7 that I got new in early 2017.
I had a iphone 3g back then. Thinking about where we were three years ago. Ride sharing wasn’t popular. Waze wasn’t around yet. Instagram wasn’t popular. I hadn’t heard about dating apps. You didn’t see stores with staff walking around with iPads. Amazing march in technology.
My husband had the G1 at the same time I had the iPhone 3G. My iPhone was much better even he thought that. He got an iPhone 4 after that and he liked it. He's switched to Samsung now though and I can't convince him to switch back.
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Cool idea for a thread OP!
Let's see. Jan 2009...I was using a blackberry I think. Either that or a RAZR.
Oh wow!
My first iPhone was an iPhone 4 the following year.
I liked apple back then but was not a user because I felt their products were too overpriced! Now i own iPhone, iPad, MacBook and have spent god knows how much in the past decade over multiple iterations haha. Crazy
Was using my iPhone 3G 16gb I got on contract, I paid £169 up front and £29 a month for 18 months total cost with contract £691, I can't remember how much data, minutes and texts I got with that package. I remember thinking that was a lot of money, back then dumb phones were not that expensive on contract and the iPhone was a much bigger expense than a flip phone, but it seems a good deal now, that was the large storage size too, you had the 8gb and the 16gb versions! So the equivalent of the XS max 512 
Using at the moment the iphone 7 128gb.
Using at the moment the iphone 7 128gb.
