If this is a quiz, I fail. I can remember most, but I am sure I owned more than this.
I was working at CompUSA and my first cellular devices were picked up there with a substantial discount. I had a Palm VII and a Motorola Talkabout. Loved those gadgets, but they weren't phones. Then I got a series of flip phones and candy bar phones: had an LG Flare on Virgin Mobile where I paid by the minute, had a Nokia 3310 with Cingular that broke almost instantly, a Sony Ericcson something or other that was the only thing I could afford to replace the Nokia while under contract, a Motorola Razr, and then a texting phone, the LG Ally. My first smartphone was a Droid 2 when I started working for VZW. Through promotions/contests, sales reps giving me devices trying to get me to promote them, and company-provided devices that cycled every 90 days, I went through a lot. I had a Droid X, Droid Bionic, Blackberry Curve 3G, Blackberry Bold, Blackberry Storm (broke after a week), LG Fathom (not that I ever used this for anything other than accepting work calls), Samsung Continuum, Galaxy Nexus (loved that slick curve to the screen), iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPhone 5S. Eventually I switched jobs and started buying my own devices again. I got a Galaxy S8, iPhone X, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 13 mini (bought this one twice because I missed it when I traded it in), Pixel 4A, Pixel 5A, Zenphone 9, Galaxy S20, Galaxy S23, iPhone 14 Pro, and iPhone 15 Pro. I am sure that some of those are out of order and others are missing. I also won some sales contests that gave me devices I never bothered activating and just regifted. I remember an LG Voyager, a Microsoft Kin, and a Palm Pre that were given to the kids of my friends and coworkers. I also remember being given a new-in-box Lumia 800 by a rep and then walking out the store and handing it directly to some kid I was helping earlier that couldn't afford to replace his water-damaged phone. Made his day. I also had a Motorola Xoom tablet and a Verizon 4G MiFi. My white whale is a Blackberry Key2, which my wife talked me out of several times and then they got discontinued before I could ever get one.
I was working at CompUSA and my first cellular devices were picked up there with a substantial discount. I had a Palm VII and a Motorola Talkabout. Loved those gadgets, but they weren't phones. Then I got a series of flip phones and candy bar phones: had an LG Flare on Virgin Mobile where I paid by the minute, had a Nokia 3310 with Cingular that broke almost instantly, a Sony Ericcson something or other that was the only thing I could afford to replace the Nokia while under contract, a Motorola Razr, and then a texting phone, the LG Ally. My first smartphone was a Droid 2 when I started working for VZW. Through promotions/contests, sales reps giving me devices trying to get me to promote them, and company-provided devices that cycled every 90 days, I went through a lot. I had a Droid X, Droid Bionic, Blackberry Curve 3G, Blackberry Bold, Blackberry Storm (broke after a week), LG Fathom (not that I ever used this for anything other than accepting work calls), Samsung Continuum, Galaxy Nexus (loved that slick curve to the screen), iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPhone 5S. Eventually I switched jobs and started buying my own devices again. I got a Galaxy S8, iPhone X, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 13 mini (bought this one twice because I missed it when I traded it in), Pixel 4A, Pixel 5A, Zenphone 9, Galaxy S20, Galaxy S23, iPhone 14 Pro, and iPhone 15 Pro. I am sure that some of those are out of order and others are missing. I also won some sales contests that gave me devices I never bothered activating and just regifted. I remember an LG Voyager, a Microsoft Kin, and a Palm Pre that were given to the kids of my friends and coworkers. I also remember being given a new-in-box Lumia 800 by a rep and then walking out the store and handing it directly to some kid I was helping earlier that couldn't afford to replace his water-damaged phone. Made his day. I also had a Motorola Xoom tablet and a Verizon 4G MiFi. My white whale is a Blackberry Key2, which my wife talked me out of several times and then they got discontinued before I could ever get one.
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