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[V1LÆM]

i was reading this thread https://www.neogaf.com/threads/whats-the-oldest-mobile-phone-youre-still-using-regularly.1586715/ and thought about seeing how far we've come in terms of smartphones.

my first smartphone was the iPhone 3G (2008) and my current is the iPhone 12 Pro Max (2020).

specs of the 3G:

3.5" TFT screen with 320x480 resolution
412MHz ARM 11 CPU
128MB RAM
8GB storage
single 2MP camera (no video support)
3.5mm jack - yes
3G data
latest OS version 4.2.1

specs of the 12 pro max:

6.7" OLED screen with 1284x2778 resolution
6 core (2x3.1GHz + 4x1.8GHz) CPU
6GB RAM
256GB storage
3x12MP cameras on front + 1x12MP selfie camera
3.5mm jack - nope
5G data
latest OS version 14.3

to compare sizes/specs i used this site if you want to use it: https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size

 

[Maiden Voyage]

First official smart phone? Blackberry. Current iPhone 12.

I remember browsing the web on my phone way before then though. I think on a flip phone, but I'm too old to remember clearly these days.

 

[Tschumi]

My first smartphone was some very cheap Motorola, my current is pocophone, good performance for low cost. Not high in integrity. My next phone wants to be a good compact OnePlus

 

[V1LÆM]

First official smart phone? Blackberry. Current iPhone 12.

I remember browsing the web on my phone way before then though. I think on a flip phone, but I'm too old to remember clearly these days.

the only blackberry i had was the bold 9780. i didn't have it long.

i remember in 2006 i had this phone:

i remember using MSN on it lol. it blew my mind i could go on the internet outside my house.

 

[crozier]

HTC Trophy was my first. Currently using an iPhone SE.

 

[V1LÆM]

HTC Trophy was my first. Currently using an iPhone SE.

i had a HTC wildfire. my first Android phone!

 

[Cyberpunkd]

iPhone 3GS, then I went through other iPhones, Samsungs, and even Huawei P20 for a year. Now iPhone 11 Pro and staying with iOS.

 

[thefool]

Iphone 4 or 4s i think, not entirely sure which. I'm rockin a 7 and don't intend to buy a new one for a while.

 

[V1LÆM]

iPhone 3GS, then I went through other iPhones, Samsungs, and even Huawei P20 for a year. Now iPhone 11 Pro and staying with iOS.

my full list of phones:

Apple iPhone 3G (October '08 - June '09)
Apple iPhone 3GS (June '09 - June '10)
Apple iPhone 4 (June '10 - September '10)
HTC Wildfire (September '10 - April '11)
Blackberry Bold 9780 (April '11 - October '11)
Samsung Galaxy S4 (July, August, October - November '13)
Apple iPhone 4S (October '11 - October '13)
Apple iPhone 5S (September '13)
Apple iPhone 5C (September '13)
Blackberry 9720 (December '13)
Motorola Moto G (January '14 - October '14)
Apple iPhone 6S Plus (September '15)
Google Nexus 5 (April, May, October '14 - June '16)
Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (May - June '16)
Samsung Galaxy A5 2016 (June '16 - December '17)
Samsung Galaxy A5 2017 (July '17)
OnePlus 5T (December '17 - November '18)
OnePlus 6T (November '18 - 21st June '19)
Google Pixel 3A XL (21st June '19 - 8th November '20)
iPhone 12 Pro Max (13th November '20 - ....)

i had been using Android for the last 7 years but if i couldn't use my iPhone i'd hate to go back to Android. if I did i'd probably get a Pixel phone again.

Iphone 4 or 4s i think, not entirely sure which. I'm rockin a 7 and don't intend to buy a new one for a while.

i loved my iPhone 4S. such a great phone. i had the 4 for a few months but the antennagate made me return it lol

 

[Cockles & Whelks]

1st. A scummy PAYG from Alcatel in 90s.

Now. Xiaomi Note 8 Pro.

 

[Fbh]

First one:

It was cheap and had pretty good performance at the time (also a really loud speaker)

Now I have a Samsung S8.

 

[Arimer]

My first phone was this bad boy

Notable phones after that were the Razor flip phone.
Blackberry perl.
The Droid original
Iphone 3g
and since iphone 7 i've stayed with them.

I've had plenty of phones in between the ones listed, those were just the ones that topped the pack.

 

[ThatStupidLion]

I THINK this was it. this might have been the second, i can't recall.

Iphone SE 2020

 

[Mistershine.]

First mobile:

First smart phone?

First modern style smart phone:

Current phone:

 

[Tesseract]

think it was the original iphone

after that i realized how depreciative these things are and opted for motorola bricks

 

[V1LÆM]

1st. A scummy PAYG from Alcatel in 90s.

Now. Xiaomi Note 8 Pro.

I THINK this was it. this might have been the second, i can't recall.

Iphone SE 2020

My first phone was this bad boy

Notable phones after that were the Razor flip phone.
Blackberry perl.
The Droid original
Iphone 3g
and since iphone 7 i've stayed with them.

I've had plenty of phones in between the ones listed, those were just the ones that topped the pack.

those aren't smartphones.

 

[Dark Star]

 

[Troglodyte]

My first one was the iPhone 3g. I had iPhone for years until switching to the Note years ago.

I just upgraded to the Samsung fold 2 about two months ago and I'm in love. As someone who likes to read, watch YouTube, and use their phone for work (PA at a hospital)this phone is amazing and I will never go back to a traditional smartphone again.

 

[Amory]

You didn't ask, but I was trying to see if I could remember my full phone history. Turns out I've had way more phones over the years than I thought I did... spanning like every OS including windows phone.

iPhone 3G
iPhone 4
Nokia Lumia 900
iPhone 5c
LG G3
Blu R1 HD
Samsung Galaxy S8+
OnePlus 7 Pro

 

[DESTROYA]

Never owned one.

 

[LaughingStock]

My first smartphone was a motorola milestone. Can't remember which version.

I've been using a galaxy note 9 for the past 2 years.

 

[FreedomOfSpeech]

I'm gonna try life without smartphone. These things have overstayed their welcome and big tech is totally making life worse.

 

[Rillania]

My first smartphone was the T-Mobile Mytouch 4G. Phone I currently have is the Blackberry Priv.

Side by side specs (Mytouch vs Priv)

And as a bonus, this is the phone I'll be replacing my Priv with, the F(x)tec Pro 1 X. It's not scheduled to be manufactured and shipped out until March or April, so it's not my current phone...yet. I chose to have mine shipped with Android pre-installed and 8GB of RAM / 256GB storage space.

As you can tell, I'm big into qwerty keyboard phones.

 

[Dural]

Got the OG iPhone in 2007 and am on an iPhone 11 right now. The 11 is the first iPhone I’ve had since the original. Went to the palm pre then Android after that. Got tired of the horrible battery life and crap resale value of android and switched to the iPhone 11.

 

[Relativ9]

First one was the iPhone 3g, now I have a Ulefone Armor 7:

 

[haxan7]

How is Apple already on the freakin 12.

I bought my XS Max 2 years ago and I'm planning to keep it for a long ass time.

 

[Rickyiez]

Love this kind of thread.

My first smartphone is the Nokia N82. It felt revolutionary back then being able to connect WiFi with it, having a GPS, browsing internet with Edge and having a 5mp Carl Zeiss camera.

Now I'm using a Samsung S10+, don't really see a need to upgrade as it's still speedy with a capable camera.

Back then mobile phone was so exciting while it evolves, remembered I had some of the likes of T610(first decent color screen and camera), K750i, Nokia 6670(semi smartphone) and iPhone 4(first real proper smartphone)

Then there were crazy cool high end phones like the P900i and n95 that I couldn't afford

My full phones history
Nokia 3310
Nokia 8250
Sagem my-x5
SE T610i
SE K750i
Nokia 6670
Nokia n82
IPhone 4
HTC One X
One Plus One
Samsung S7 Edge
Samsung Note 8
Samsung S10+

 

[dcll]

Pixel 3 XL is my current, don't remember first but I think it was Blackberry Curve

 

[Paasei]

My first smartphone was:

Then a OP1.

Now I have the OP6 in Red:

 

[CrankyJay™]

My first cell phone

 

[eddie4]

Nokia 3310 (2000 model)
Few other Nokias, can't remember the models.
BlackBerry Curve 8300
Motorola RAZR
BlackBerry Storm
BlackBerry Storm 2
Motorola DROID
A shitton of other android Phones.
Sony Xperia XA2
Sony Xperia 10
Sony Xperia 1
Current phone: iPhone SE 2020 and i hate it.

 

[PSYGN]

Oldest to newest:

LG Optimus V
HTC Evo 4G
Samsung Galaxy S3
Samsung Galaxy S4
Samsung Galaxy S5
iPhone 6
iPhone 6s

 

[GAMETA]

I've had 4, all of them were entry-level models made for the 3rd world market.

My current one is a Samsung A01

Pretty barebones, kinda bad camera, 3000mah battery, 720p-ish screen resolution... but hey, it works, run some games in low/medium quality, very usable... if converted to dollars, the price would be around $125 USD... works for me.

 

[Jade Knight 08]

First smart phone: Red Blackberry Torch (9800)

Current smart phone: Blue IPhone XR

 

[Husky]

My first was a Nexus 5 (2013), now I use a Nexus 5X (2015).

 

[John Day]

Are Blackberryies considered smartphones? If not, then Iphone 3 i believe was the first.

Current phone is an Iphone X. 5k songs and counting in itunes, ain’t dropping that!

 

[n0razi]

- OG 8GB iPhone (first and last iPhone I ever owned)
- Nexus One (first Android phone of many)
- Pixel 5 (latest and greatest)

 

[TheZink]

Nokia 3310


iPhone 12 Pro Blue

 

[Potato Chip PRO]

Are Blackberryies considered smartphones? If not, then Iphone 3 i believe was the first.

Current phone is an Iphone X. 5k songs and counting in itunes, ain’t dropping that!

You're pretty much stuck with Apple for the rest of your life it seems. 5k songs!? Dang!!!

 

[John Day]

You're pretty much stuck with Apple for the rest of your life it seems. 5k songs!? Dang!!!

yeah. But i don’t really care THAT much? It’s just what it is, it works, and well, that’s that.

 

[Codes 208]

don’t remember exactly what my first phone was, it was a slide phone and my dad dropped our lines a few months after buying them because my sister had a over the limit bill of $300 for just one month of talk/text.

a year or two later my mom put me on her line and the next phone was my first smart phone (an LG optimus)

And now I have an iPhone 11 Pro max

Edit: after looking back, my very first phone goes back from 2005 and it was a Nokia 6111

 

[Durask]

First one - Treo 700p

Now - iPhone 12 Pro Max (and Galaxy Note 20 Ultra as a second/backup phone)

 

[Erdrick]

Motorola Milestone aka Droid back in 2011. Having an actual keyboard with the screen slide up was a game changer for me since it made texting insanely faster as opposed to a fliphone that I was using prior. A whopping 133 MB of storage and 256 MB of RAM.

Now, I'm rocking a Sony Xperia 1ii since August and while It's not easy to get their phones up here in Canada anymore, I've been a fan since my first one back in 2013, the Xperia ZL, which was my successor to the Milestone, and will stick with Sony as long as they keep making them. Adore the design and simpleness of them. 256 GB of storage and 8 GB of RAM.

Eager to see what their next phones bring in the coming years.

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

First mobile was the Nokia one in the matrix.

Current iPhone 12 Pro Max.

 

[highrider]

Galaxy S3, good phone. Currently running iPhone 11 pro

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

I honestly can’t remember my phone history. Currently use an iPhone 11 Pro. I like it.

 

[M1chl]

HTC Desire and now Samsung S20 FE 5G

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Think the first was a Blackberry in 2013 and currently got a Samsung S10.

 

[King of Foxes]

First, no idea cant remember but it was for sure Samsung. I've only used that brand with smartphones.

Current is galaxy a51

 

[BadBurger]

My first was a hand-me-down G1 iPhone with a slight crack in the corner of the screen.

My current is an iPhone 11 Pro.

I'm nothing if not consistent.