My first one was a Samsung Galaxy S1 that I got in 2013 and it was a great little device that was easy to open up and repair. It had only 512MB of RAM but that was plenty for basic phone needs, web browsing and running some Android apps like AnkiDroid at the time.
Samsung Galaxy S2 was my first proper smartphone. I knew a dude who had one and I was blown away by how cool it was compared to my dumb phone. So I went and bought one for myself. Absolutely loved it.
Typing this on my S21 Ultra. Crazy how far smartphones have come in this past 10-12 years.
When I worked at one of the US’s major wireless carriers as a manager, I snagged an HTC phone when it was one of the first Android phones. It was small but very cool. I’d been using an iPhone 3G at the time and as soon as I played around with the Android, I knew I had to have it, and never looked back! That was 2009 I think.
Got a Galaxy Core Prime SM-G360H in 2014 before Samsung started clamping down on bootloader unlocking. It was my first Android smartphone. Was really small and comfy to hold. Specs were terrible though. Used it until 6.0 or 7 on custom ROMs. Dropped it onto the floor one day. Broke the display. RIP.
I remained a blackberry user for too long. I had a number of them and I wasn’t interested in the Apple phone. Then I had a terrible BB Storm which would freeze up all the time.
I called my telco frustrated by the POS. They gave me a $100 credit to go buy a pay and talk android phone (LG something) and wait for a month for the Samsung S2 to come out. Once it arrived I would be sent one. The pay and talk LG blew my blackberry out of the water as it was a full internet experience unlike the BB that was translating all internet experiences to reduce data used on networks that couldn’t handle data to start out with.
The S2 was amazing compared to my BB’s. I did miss the physical keyboard until I started using Swype. Then I couldn’t go back.
I recall minutes being a big revenue generator for telcos, then it became data once the networks could handle it with the iPhone. Now it seems like they are giving away tons of data these days. What’s driving revenue now for them I wonder?
i can’t remember if i got the htc one or the nexus 4 or 5 first but i believe those were the first versions of android i used. i think i was doing ios up to ios 7 maybe??
HTC G1, but before that I put Android on my HTC Tilt2 which was a Windows CE phone so not really Android but you could side load it. This was early 2008.
I had the Motorola Atrix 4G, the cousin of this phone on AT&T. Phone itself was fine but the software support was abysmal. It only ever got one OS update to 2.3 (they promised and reneged on 4.0), then released an updated Atrix 2 like five months later that was better in every way, cost the same, and DID get the update.
My first android was HTC Evo 3D. Until then I had touch nokia symbian phone so it was quite a jump forward. Evo got off 60% of price within 6 month so I had to update. It was a hell of a deal. Lasted me for 4 years. Then I went for Somy Xperia Z1 compact.
I wasn’t an android person in the beginning but I always dabbled with it. I daily drived a windows phone until it got stolen in 2017, then I was hoping arround several dying phones that my family had, an s3 mini, an LG v3, an s4 mini. Then in 2019 I got a galaxy a30s and fell in love with one ui, now I’m using an infinix note 12 g96
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