Android is my favorite currently, but when I was growing up it was Symbian, comparing it to java it was miles ahead with way more advanced capabilities!
I was big on Symbian S60 and my all time favourite phone was the Nokia N95.
Camera was way ahead of anything at the time and was the first time I felt that I could get by with a phone camera. Got some lovely shots in that when I had it.
I even had a soft spot for the N-Gage and later the N-Gage QD. Total failures however.
Webos was so far ahead of it's time. It took years of android porting many of it's features over. Now it just lives on TV's.
It's hard to comprehend how far ahead the palm pre and webos was. Sprint wasn't even selling android phones yet. But webos had cards, advanced account integrations, full browser and a beautiful interface
My favorite music was the end-credits music of SuperMarioLand. I would play through the whole game just to hear it, and then keep it going on infinite loop until it ran out of battery.
They had some really impressive devices in the early 2000s. You had to dock it to your PC and sync all your stuff to it, kinda like an iPod but for emails and documents. Some of them even supported external keyboards!
oh wow what a history! i remember my first phone only had one line so to text you had to wait for the screen to slowly scroll, t is so funny now but back then it was revolutionary!
Windows Phone in the 7/8 era. It felt well composed, all it’s features worked pretty well, and it was fluid and smooth.
Did it have a lot of features? No, but what it had it did well. Once the concept of apps took off hard, it was clear WP wouldn’t get the popular ones, and with Microsoft beefing with Google at the time, the OS lost all its support and died.
My first was Symbian but my favourite will always be Windows phone. I still run square home launcher to get that familiar tile screen on my pixel 6 pro
Mine was a party line because we lived out in the country. I had to listen real careful for clicking sounds cause our neighbors could pickup and listen to our conversations.
My first "OS" growing up was an old black analog telephone with a ring dial. I got my first mobile phone when I was about 20 years old and it was a simple Samsung with black and white 1" screen and an antenna that popped out. I had my first smartphone many years later.
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