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Ericsson GA528
Siemens C25
Siemens C35
Samsung SGH-T100
Nokia 3310
Sony Ericsson T610
HTC Wallaby
Sony Ericsson K750
Sony Ericsson K800
Sony Ericsson W960
HTC Blueangel
HTC Prophet
iPhone 2G
HTC Leo EU
HTC Leo TMOUS
iPhone 4G
HTC Leo EU
And a ******** of other project phones I bought, fixed and sold.
Current phones:
HTC Leo EU (w/ TMOUS board)
Samsung E1150
Siemens C25
Siemens C35
Samsung SGH-T100
Nokia 3310
Sony Ericsson T610
HTC Wallaby
Sony Ericsson K750
Sony Ericsson K800
Sony Ericsson W960
HTC Blueangel
HTC Prophet
iPhone 2G
HTC Leo EU
HTC Leo TMOUS
iPhone 4G
HTC Leo EU
And a ******** of other project phones I bought, fixed and sold.
Current phones:
HTC Leo EU (w/ TMOUS board)
Samsung E1150
Started back in 1995 with a NEC P3
That was my first phone as well
i can't remember all my phones had so many in the last 18-19 years ! in the last few years had3gs
4
4s
5
Here's mine (I've probs missed a few though!), not sure of the years I had them all though.
My first phone: Bosch 509e
Siemens C25
Nokia 3210
Nokia 3310
Nokia 3410
Panasonic GD87
Samsung D500
iPhone
iPhone 3G
iPhone 3GS
iPhone 4
iPhone 5 (Current phone)
My first phone: Bosch 509e
Siemens C25
Nokia 3210
Nokia 3310
Nokia 3410
Panasonic GD87
Samsung D500
iPhone
iPhone 3G
iPhone 3GS
iPhone 4
iPhone 5 (Current phone)
LOL N-Gage. I always wanted one but never got it. Good thing I didn't
The first one was a bit weird, especially because the earpiece and mic were mounted on the top edge. I think the term for it was "taco talking" as it looks like you were holding a taco to your ear.
The second one (the QD), they moved the earpiece and mic to the front, so to the average user it was just a big phone (even though it was a lot smaller than the first one). The console part of it wasn't that bad at all, and the battery life was great. A friend of mine borrowed it from me and promptly lost it. I kind of miss it actually.
The first one also required you to remove the battery to swap games since the game cartridges were literally SD cards. And on the N-Gage, like a lot of phones at the time, you had to manually set the time and date again after a battery pull. Very lazy design by Nokia on that one.
Side talking was actually kinda fun. I mean it looked stupid but it's not like it was a business phone. I always thought it was funny and quirky.
Overall though it was a terrible phone. The OS crashed a lot, the battery life was awful, and having to pull the battery to swap games was ridiculous. The QD version, however, was a massive improvement.
Owned one of these and yes mine was pink loved this phone. It is the Motorola slvr with iTunes. Only thing that sucked was that the limit it could hold was 100 songs no mater how big of a micro sd card you had. And you had to use mini USB headphones (yes I said mini USB lol). Other then that I loved it used it for over a year.
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WOW! I'm surprised that I've never heard of that phone. Especially one with iTunes! What year did this phone come out? Early 2000s?
Kyocera K9 (Wish I still had this phone simply because it was my first. IIRC, I gave it to a friend after it being in the junk drawer for a long time)
Next up came an LG VI-125 (This thing survived a 70+ ft. drop off a roller coaster to the asphalt below with only a chip out of the back cover (among much other abuse). Don't ask me how.) I gave it to a friend after the battery would no longer hold a charge, and from what she told me it died altogether two days after.
After, came a Moto RAZR. I loved the physical design of the phone, but the Sprint UI was clunky and slow, and the battery life was terrible. (And the low battery "BEE-DOOP" warning noise went off literally every 5 minutes. For HOURS. Clearly, the battery wasn't as low as the frantic warning wanted me to believe.)
Up next is the Kyocera Marbl. It was $20, but it's actually one of my favorite phones I've ever owned. Keypad was nice and solid, speakers were loud and clear, the UI was fast and easy to use, and I had it set to play a short set of polyphonic notes whenever the screen was opened or closed. I actually still have it stashed away as a backup.
The lineup continues with the Kyocera K342. It wasn't a bad phone at first, but it didn't take three or four months before it started having glitches and errors in the UI, and also began physically falling apart. I liked the design, but I don't really miss it either. I saw it in my old room at my parents house yesterday. It still works, sort of.
My parents quite surprised me one Christmas with an iPhone 3GS, my first smartphone. I hadn't actually had any interest in an iPhone, but it was cool to have. A very good phone overall, but I never have been a fan of iOS's design. That, and I hate touchscreen keyboards with the burning intensity of a thousand suns. I killed it one day after a water-hose related accident.
After the iPhone, I had been spoiled by the smartphone experience, so I looked for another. What I found ended up being my absolute favorite phone I've ever had the pleasure to own; The Palm Pixi Plus. I'm madly in love with the "pebble" design, the magnificent keyboard, and that most beautiful and intuitive webOS. The software was buggy, and the build quality of the hardware was questionable at best, but I've never mourned the loss of a phone when this one met it's end when it fell out of my pocket as I got out of my truck to check the mail, and ran it over.
An LG Rumor Touch followed. By a large margin, the worst phone I've ever owned. The touchscreen was awful, the keyboard was awful, the UI was awful, and the build quality was awful. But, credit where it's due; that thing had an unbelievable battery life. I could use it calling, texting and web browsing heavily for three days before it needed to be charged. I've wanted to give it away to someone who needs a phone, but three people have turned it down after the frustration with it in five minutes.
In bright red, a Palm Centro made it's debut for my next phone. As outdated as it was when I got it in early 2012, I learned why Palm had such a devoted following for so many years; that Palm OS is rock solid and simple, but very feature-rich as well. That squishy keyboard took some getting used to, but it was excellent after a few weeks of adjustment.
After that, I got another Pixi Plus. Only phone I've ever owned twice, it's that awesome. Unfortunately, due to carrier issues I've been forced to abandon it once again, maybe to be put back in service someday... I hope.
All that brings me to my current phone, for which I decided to take the Android plunge; behold, the Alcatel Venture. For a $40 phone, I'm quite pleased. It runs 2.3 pretty well with a few hiccups here and there. The keyboard, while not anything to write home about, is more than adequate. It has very little internal storage which can be a bit of a pain, but overall it's not that big of a problem. The only real problem is the idiot who decided on the battery they include with the phone; I don't know why they decided it was OK that you can kill it from a full charge in less than an hour simply by surfing the web. Getting two hours of talk time is a rarity. But, I'm almost always near an outlet anyway, so I just gotta carry the charger around with me.
Holy cow, I'm done?! Three hours of my life well spent.
Next up came an LG VI-125 (This thing survived a 70+ ft. drop off a roller coaster to the asphalt below with only a chip out of the back cover (among much other abuse). Don't ask me how.
) I gave it to a friend after the battery would no longer hold a charge, and from what she told me it died altogether two days after.
After, came a Moto RAZR. I loved the physical design of the phone, but the Sprint UI was clunky and slow, and the battery life was terrible. (And the low battery "BEE-DOOP" warning noise went off literally every 5 minutes. For HOURS. Clearly, the battery wasn't as low as the frantic warning wanted me to believe.
)
Up next is the Kyocera Marbl. It was $20, but it's actually one of my favorite phones I've ever owned. Keypad was nice and solid, speakers were loud and clear, the UI was fast and easy to use, and I had it set to play a short set of polyphonic notes whenever the screen was opened or closed.
I actually still have it stashed away as a backup.
The lineup continues with the Kyocera K342. It wasn't a bad phone at first, but it didn't take three or four months before it started having glitches and errors in the UI, and also began physically falling apart. I liked the design, but I don't really miss it either. I saw it in my old room at my parents house yesterday. It still works, sort of.
My parents quite surprised me one Christmas with an iPhone 3GS, my first smartphone. I hadn't actually had any interest in an iPhone, but it was cool to have. A very good phone overall, but I never have been a fan of iOS's design. That, and I hate touchscreen keyboards with the burning intensity of a thousand suns.
I killed it one day after a water-hose related accident.
After the iPhone, I had been spoiled by the smartphone experience, so I looked for another. What I found ended up being my absolute favorite phone I've ever had the pleasure to own; The Palm Pixi Plus. I'm madly in love with the "pebble" design, the magnificent keyboard, and that most beautiful and intuitive webOS. The software was buggy, and the build quality of the hardware was questionable at best, but I've never mourned the loss of a phone when this one met it's end when it fell out of my pocket as I got out of my truck to check the mail, and ran it over.
An LG Rumor Touch followed. By a large margin, the worst phone I've ever owned. The touchscreen was awful, the keyboard was awful, the UI was awful, and the build quality was awful. But, credit where it's due; that thing had an unbelievable battery life. I could use it calling, texting and web browsing heavily for three days before it needed to be charged. I've wanted to give it away to someone who needs a phone, but three people have turned it down after the frustration with it in five minutes.
In bright red, a Palm Centro made it's debut for my next phone. As outdated as it was when I got it in early 2012, I learned why Palm had such a devoted following for so many years; that Palm OS is rock solid and simple, but very feature-rich as well. That squishy keyboard took some getting used to, but it was excellent after a few weeks of adjustment.
After that, I got another Pixi Plus. Only phone I've ever owned twice, it's that awesome.
Unfortunately, due to carrier issues I've been forced to abandon it once again, maybe to be put back in service someday... I hope.
All that brings me to my current phone, for which I decided to take the Android plunge; behold, the Alcatel Venture. For a $40 phone, I'm quite pleased. It runs 2.3 pretty well with a few hiccups here and there. The keyboard, while not anything to write home about, is more than adequate. It has very little internal storage which can be a bit of a pain, but overall it's not that big of a problem. The only real problem is the idiot who decided on the battery they include with the phone; I don't know why they decided it was OK that you can kill it from a full charge in less than an hour simply by surfing the web. Getting two hours of talk time is a rarity. But, I'm almost always near an outlet anyway, so I just gotta carry the charger around with me.
Holy cow, I'm done?! Three hours of my life well spent.
Nokia 5110
Nokia 3310
Nokia 1100
Low end Sony Erricson dumbphone
Nokia 1100
Nokia 1100
Nokia 1100
Nokia 3310
Nokia 1100
Low end Sony Erricson dumbphone
Nokia 1100
Nokia 1100
Nokia 1100
1. Technophone Bag Phone (later added car install kit)
2. Motorola Flip (one of the early, really big ones with the huge battery)
I actually had the two above phones at the same time for a while; I sent the Motorola to a company called TwinCell, who turned it into a clone of the Technophone. Only one could be powered-on at a time, OR ELSE.
3. Early Motorola Clamshell Flip Phone (on AT&T's old TDMA network)
4. Motorola StarTAC (Mercedes-Benz-specific model, with steering wheel controls and voice dialing)
5. Some Samsung (small and silver, with blue flip keyboard cover)
6. Motorola V300 (blue, grippy exterior)
7. Sprint/HTC PPC-6700 (my first smartphone)
8. Motorola RAZR V3 (badly wanted one one they first came out, but waited a few years)
I also had numbers 7 and 8 simultaneously, but two different carriers (no cloning). Then I ditched both for:
9. AT&T/HTC Tilt (was into WinMo at the time, but wanted iPhone when they came out)
10. Apple iPhone 5 (FINALLY!)
Good thread, btw.
EDIT: I forgot about some employer-provided phones:
11. Nokia (looked just like the one everyone had)
12. Nokia (the one everyone else had)
13. Sony Ericsson (looked like a camera, longitudinally rotated to reveal keyboard)
I had 11 at the same time as 7 and 8; it was replaced by both 12 and 13. All four (7, 8, 12, 13) replaced by 9.
2. Motorola Flip (one of the early, really big ones with the huge battery)
I actually had the two above phones at the same time for a while; I sent the Motorola to a company called TwinCell, who turned it into a clone of the Technophone. Only one could be powered-on at a time, OR ELSE.
3. Early Motorola Clamshell Flip Phone (on AT&T's old TDMA network)
4. Motorola StarTAC (Mercedes-Benz-specific model, with steering wheel controls and voice dialing)
5. Some Samsung (small and silver, with blue flip keyboard cover)
6. Motorola V300 (blue, grippy exterior)
7. Sprint/HTC PPC-6700 (my first smartphone)
8. Motorola RAZR V3 (badly wanted one one they first came out, but waited a few years)
I also had numbers 7 and 8 simultaneously, but two different carriers (no cloning). Then I ditched both for:
9. AT&T/HTC Tilt (was into WinMo at the time, but wanted iPhone when they came out)
10. Apple iPhone 5 (FINALLY!)
Good thread, btw.
EDIT: I forgot about some employer-provided phones:
11. Nokia (looked just like the one everyone had)
12. Nokia (the one everyone else had)
13. Sony Ericsson (looked like a camera, longitudinally rotated to reveal keyboard)
I had 11 at the same time as 7 and 8; it was replaced by both 12 and 13. All four (7, 8, 12, 13) replaced by 9.
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My complete cell history is 20 years old this year..thats a lot of phone pictures to search not to mention the booze and other things I've ingested which make things hazy for more than a few years.
I am going to have to do this per provider, rather than in order, because, well, it's a long list.
Nextel:
Motorola i1000+
Motorola i90c
Motorola i1000+ from buddy pack, in silver.
Sprint:
Samsung cannot remember exact model
Samsung cannot remember exact model
Cingular/AT&T:
Motorola RAZR V3 black
Samsung cannot remember exact model
Sony Ericsson T610i
Sony Ericsson W810i black
Sony Ericsson W810i white
Sony Ericsson S500i black
Sony Ericsson K750i
iPhone - original one
iPhone 3GS white
iPhone 4
Samsung Focus
BlackBerry Bold 9700
BlackBerry Torch 9800
Samsung Epix
Verizon:
BlackBerry Pearl 8130
BlackBerry World Edition 8830
BlackBerry Curve 8330
BlackBerry Tour 9630
BlackBerry Storm 9530
BlackBerry Storm 9550
BlackBerry Bold 9650
BlackBerry Bold 9930
LG eNV2
iPhone 4
iPhone 4S
Motorola Droid Pro
HTC Trophy
HTC Ozone
Samsung GSIII
Probably forgetting a few in there, and those are not in exact order.
Nextel:
Motorola i1000+
Motorola i90c
Motorola i1000+ from buddy pack, in silver.
Sprint:
Samsung cannot remember exact model
Samsung cannot remember exact model
Cingular/AT&T:
Motorola RAZR V3 black
Samsung cannot remember exact model
Sony Ericsson T610i
Sony Ericsson W810i black
Sony Ericsson W810i white
Sony Ericsson S500i black
Sony Ericsson K750i
iPhone - original one
iPhone 3GS white
iPhone 4
Samsung Focus
BlackBerry Bold 9700
BlackBerry Torch 9800
Samsung Epix
Verizon:
BlackBerry Pearl 8130
BlackBerry World Edition 8830
BlackBerry Curve 8330
BlackBerry Tour 9630
BlackBerry Storm 9530
BlackBerry Storm 9550
BlackBerry Bold 9650
BlackBerry Bold 9930
LG eNV2
iPhone 4
iPhone 4S
Motorola Droid Pro
HTC Trophy
HTC Ozone
Samsung GSIII
Probably forgetting a few in there, and those are not in exact order.
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Wow didn't know a pink version existed...
I had the original, white model the Motorola ROCKR, same limitations but man I used that thing pretty good during its life span.
It actually would have lasted longer but I got the hankering to swap it out with something new.
I must admit when i was younger i couldn't keep a phone for more than a few months - i loved just buying phones on pasyg and shoving my contract sim into it for a refresh, although the phones i look at now I stick with them as I like them!
Here's my list (might be incomplete and in the wrong date order) but it's as close as i can get to figuring it out
1. Motorola c520i
2. Phillips Diga
3. Phillips C12
4. Nokia 5110
5. Nokia 3210
6. Nokia 3310
7. Motorola V50
8. Motorola Vbox(V100)
9. Nokia 6310
10. Nokia 8310
11. Ericsson T28
12. Siemens C25
13. Mitsubishi Trium Geo@
14. Nokia 7650
15. Samsung V200
16. Nokia 3510i
17. Orange SPV E200
18. Orange SPV M2000
19. Sony Ericcsson K750i
20. Orange SPV M3100
21. Apple iPhone 8Gb
22. Apple iPhone 3G 32Gb White
23. Apple iPhone 4 32Gb Black
24. Apple iPhone 4S 16Gb White
Will be looking for my 25th if the iPhone 5S tempts me!!!
Here's my list (might be incomplete and in the wrong date order) but it's as close as i can get to figuring it out
1. Motorola c520i
2. Phillips Diga
3. Phillips C12
4. Nokia 5110
5. Nokia 3210
6. Nokia 3310
7. Motorola V50
8. Motorola Vbox(V100)
9. Nokia 6310
10. Nokia 8310
11. Ericsson T28
12. Siemens C25
13. Mitsubishi Trium Geo@
14. Nokia 7650
15. Samsung V200
16. Nokia 3510i
17. Orange SPV E200
18. Orange SPV M2000
19. Sony Ericcsson K750i
20. Orange SPV M3100
21. Apple iPhone 8Gb
22. Apple iPhone 3G 32Gb White
23. Apple iPhone 4 32Gb Black
24. Apple iPhone 4S 16Gb White
Will be looking for my 25th if the iPhone 5S tempts me!!!
Motorola V60
Samsung SGH-E315
LG VX5200
LG VX8300
Palm Treo 650
Motorola V80
Motorola Razr
LG VX9400
iPhone 3G
iPhone 3GS
iPhone 4
iPhone 4S
iPhone 5
Samsung SGH-E315
LG VX5200
LG VX8300
Palm Treo 650
Motorola V80
Motorola Razr
LG VX9400
iPhone 3G
iPhone 3GS
iPhone 4
iPhone 4S
iPhone 5
