First Smartphone

What was the first smartphone you owned?

Mine was like a LG Optimus, which at the time was decent. Now it is just a dumb phone. Some apps still work, like Youtube. Logging into Google, doesn’t. 

 

Conversation 19 comments

  • 224

    28 January, 2017 - 3:14 am

    <p>Mine was an HTC XDA II, with Windows Mobile 2003…loved the apps and how it was possible to upgrade the OS on it, but it was terrible as an actual phone, the phone app was very unstable.</p>

  • 5177

    28 January, 2017 - 7:23 am

    <p>First was&nbsp;a HTC HD2 (which still works), although I made the mistake of putting Android on it and I lost all my WM apps. (Should have kept with WinMo 6.5 as a relic).</p>
    <p>Then after HD2 I had, HD7 (POS), HTC Titan, Lumia 900, Lumia 1520 and now Xperia Z5 Premium.</p>

  • 5530

    28 January, 2017 - 8:09 am

    <p>Lumia 710. The only retail Windows&nbsp;phone that had physical buttons. I liked the design of it although it was considered ugly next to the Lumia 800. The phone had a bug with not being able lock properly and not being able to hangup in the calling screen, which were eventually fixed and then it was all right……….until someone pickpocketed my phone when I was sleeping on the bus. RIP</p>

  • 49

    Premium Member
    28 January, 2017 - 11:38 am

    <p>Palm Treo 700w and then quickly upgraded to the wx once it came out for that delicious extra RAM.</p>

  • 9032

    Premium Member
    28 January, 2017 - 1:32 pm

    <p>Nokia&nbsp;N97 Mini</p>

  • 5496

    28 January, 2017 - 2:50 pm

    <p>Mine was the original iPhone. I got it before they had app, when they were webapps.</p>
    <p>My next phone was like 5 years later, a Lumia 520. about 2 years later a Lumia 640. Still using the 640 today.&nbsp;</p>

  • 9698

    28 January, 2017 - 3:05 pm

    <p>HTC Evo 4g LTE, and less than a year later moved to a Lumia 521 after learning about WP.</p>

    • 5477

      28 January, 2017 - 10:07 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#39180">In reply to </a><a href="../../../../users/aevans006">aevans006</a><a href="#39180">:</a></em></blockquote>
      <p>I had the HTC Evo 4G LTE also, and was my second phone. It was a great phone, and had a great&nbsp;display, performance, a good camera. The best thing about it, it had a kickstand!&nbsp;</p>

  • 313

    Premium Member
    29 January, 2017 - 11:50 am

    <p>the HTC Touch, running Windows Mobile (I think 6.1) with HTC’s "touchflow UI" &nbsp;(think the precurser to sense).</p>
    <p>My carrier in Canada didn’t consider it a "smartphone" so they applied different plans to it. &nbsp;I got unlimited data on it for $5/month. &nbsp;I mean, it was slow as hell and the internet barely actually worked, but it was $5/month. &nbsp;</p>
    <p>Went from there to a Palm Pre. &nbsp;So when that ship also sank ended up on Android and won’t go back.</p>

  • 5664

    Premium Member
    29 January, 2017 - 1:00 pm

    <p>Samsung Blackjack. A non-touchscreen Windows Mobile device with a full keyboard. Yep, a WinMo Blackberry ripoff by the masters of ripoff. Loved texting on it, but it broke literally in my pocket and replaced it with a then new iPhone 3GS.</p>
    <p>Never went back from touch at that point.</p>

  • 10506

    02 February, 2017 - 4:38 am

    <p>It was HTC HD2</p>
    <p>now I prefer iphones</p>

  • 1888

    02 February, 2017 - 1:09 pm

    <p>Nokia Lumia 710 – I considered it an upgrade from my Zune HD. &nbsp;It was a great music player. &nbsp;Too bad MS destroyed that functionality with WP 8. &nbsp;I tried out quite a few after that moving to a Lumia 521, then a Lumia 635, then getting a Lumia 930. &nbsp;That’s when I jumped ship and got a Nexus 5x – I like the apps but I do miss my Windows phone…</p>

  • 1959

    Premium Member
    03 February, 2017 - 10:13 am

    <p>Technically, my first was the HTC Juno (known as the T-Mobile Shadow). No touch screen and had a super cheap data plan, but ran Windows Mobile so it could be considered a smartphone. My first proper smartphone was the HTC Touch Pro II.</p>

  • 5027

    05 February, 2017 - 5:23 am

    <p>Nokia N95</p>

  • Jeshmi D

    16 August, 2017 - 7:46 am

    <p>It was <a href="https://www.mobikart.com/mobile/apple-iphone-6-64gb&quot; target="_blank">iPhone 6</a>, after a long wait finally my 1st iPhone. It runs on <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">iOS 8 and has good camera quality as well as there are some features that only Apple can offer. </span> There has always being a debate on Android vs iOS. Now I can say that iOS wins the race.</p>

  • danjohndj

    16 August, 2017 - 8:50 am

    <p>Nokia E71</p>

  • Usman

    Premium Member
    16 August, 2017 - 9:16 am

    <p>Nokia E66 then the x6.</p><p><br></p><p>After those it was the Samsung Omnia 7, the European version of the Samsung Focus.</p>

  • AshlyThompson

    21 November, 2017 - 8:36 am

    <p>Here is mine first one Siemens A51. Oh I miss this game with blocks. Who remember how it's called? This one https: //i.ytimg.com/vi/1RI3l8OUU_g/maxresdefault.jpg can'p post image :(</p><p><br></p>

  • beckerrt

    Premium Member
    21 November, 2017 - 4:02 pm

    <p>HTC Trophy on Verizon. I don't think I ever saw another one out in the wild other than mine. Got a Lumia 520 after that. </p>

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