Let's have some fun. Post all your previous phones.

As I am feeling nostalgic let's all list our phone timelines....I will start after I remember which ones I have had.

Ok, I have racked my brains, and I'm sure there are others.

First phone was a mobile mounted in the truck that you had to key into a repeater tower and ask the operator to dial for you.
the rest are as follows.

• motorola bag phone
• motorola BIG flip
• motorola microtac
• motorola startac 3000
• motorola startac 6500
• nokia 252
• motorola v120
• motorola v60
• Sanyo Flip (can't remember the model)
• motorola RZR
• motorola KRZR
• HTC 640 (I think). HTC blackberry style device running windows.
• blackberry pearl 8130
• HTC hero (white Telus model)
• samsung Galaxy 2S
• Samsung Note 1 SGH-I717
• iphone 4
• Samsung Ativ S
• Nokia 520
• Nokia 1020 (best phone and overall OS EVER)
• Iphone 6
• Iphone 6s
• Iphone 8
• Iphone 11
• Next WON'T be another iPhone. I am done with apple!

 

Some Nokia I cant remember
HTC One 3D
Iphone 4
HTC One m7
Galaxy Note 4
LG V20

Havent decided on my next phone, conflicted over convenience vs privacy these days so it'll either be:

Pine Phone

LG v60

 

Some Sony Ericsson flip phone whose model name I never paid attention to
Iphone 4

Yeah, this list isn't very long. I keep my phones forever since I really only need them for 3 things: talking, texting, and taking pictures.

I only have 2 reasons for having a smartphone. The first is so I can use mobile apps when school or work require me to for some stupid reason (I'd much rather use a laptop or desktop, screw mobile operating systems), and the other is for facetiming my closest buddies. I can also facetime them from my Ranger nowadays, so that second point is moot.

 

Nokia 3310
Siemens CX65
Nokia 6233
HTC Wildfire
HTC Wildfire S
Blackberry Q10
LG V30
iPhone 6
iPhone 12 mini

You often say that, but you know it won't be true

 

No, this time it's different. Before the phone itself was giving me issues, and I was going to try something else. Now, the COMPANY is to blame. Their treatment of Prepear shows their petty true colors. I refuse to support a company that tries to take down little small businesses with strongarm tactics for no reason. Apple can suck the grapes if you know that I mean.

I will never buy another apple product for myself. Besides, iOS is unstable, they keep removing features I would use, and they cannot even get their phone to work correctly with their watch. As soon as I use my apple watch with my iphone 11, all notificatons are muted both audiubly and with haptics. All sounds are ticked on, volume on both maxed but they refuse to vibrate or make a notification sound. Meanwhile my 199 dollar Garmin vivoactive gives me all notifications via haptics no issue! APPLE IS CRAP!

 

I don't have much phones to list.
Nokia 1100i
Nokia Asha 305
Lumia 535
Lumia 730
iPhone 7 (briefly used for 2 days.)
Samsung Core Prime
Nokia 8.1
Pixel 4a.

 

Ahh, memories :O)

Nokia Mobira, never forgotten that great fantastic 1st experience of freedom! & could talk for a whole hour, and only took 8 hours to recharge :O) But very ok to use when in car 12v.
Nokia 101
Nokia 2110
Ericsson 198
A Philips
A Siemens
A Panasonic
Nokia 5210
Nokia N5
Nokia 6110 navigator (was great)
Nokia N8 (could have been great, but & if. Good cam, hdmi out, good pc interface)
Samsung J5 15 (heated up and fried inside)
Motorola C plus (still used as hotspot, superbly sensitive 4g reception + strong wifipower)
Samsung J5 16 (still alive)
Samsung J7 17 (in use, solid machine, great battery, great handsfree speaker\mic ..flat display!!)
Huawei Mate 10 pro (in use, great build \ cam \ display \ network reception \ battery ..flat display!!)
Samsung Note 10 lite (daily driver, great allrounder ...flat display!!)

 

I have had tons of mobile phones over the years, but they've never been something that I valued to the extent I do computers. So, I haven't paid much attention to model numbers and providing an accurate list would be more or less impossible. It's just not that important to me personally.

From old bag phones with a corded handset, that you carried in a large canvas bag with a shoulder strap, to flip phones, including the original Motorola Razer that so many people were crazy about, BlackBerry, iPhone, Android and Windoze Phone and a variety of service providers, including TracFone pre-paid... so, more or less just about every type of cellular plan, operating system and a wide variety of hardware. For work, I just used whatever my employer gave me and was thankful they were paying for it. About the last 8 years they were iPhones, so that was pretty useful as a means of validating my contempt for Apple. The money was theirs to waste... better theirs than mine.

For personal use, mostly whatever came for free or for very little money, from the cellular provider with my plan is what I have owned. My current phone is an LG V30. It is, by far, the most I have ever spent for a phone. I only have it because T-Mobile offered a BOGO deal with a special plan that gave us 2 phones, 2 lines, unlimited everything, for less per month than I could get anywhere else for 1 line of unlimited everything with a crappy free phone. From my perspective, it is better than any other Android or iPhone that I have ever owned, but it is about 4 times more expensive than I would normally accept for something as mundane as talk, text, GPS navigation and very limited web activity.

I do not enjoy using smartphones and always opt for using a computer when one is available. I only use a smartphone for email and internet access in a pinch, when it is the only option readily available.

In terms of operating system preference, from most favorite to least liked:

• Android
• Windows 8 Phone
• BlackBerry OS
• old flip phone generic OSes
• iPhone iOS

 

I haven't had very many, as I find phones to be horrendously overpriced for what they do.
-iPhone 3G
-iPhone 4S
-iPhone SE
-iPhone 8 Plus <- my current device

I will probably be moving to the second gen iPhone SE as I despise FaceID and the ugly notch. Then again, the 8 Plus is not even close to being tired yet. Apple silicon is amazing. There was a time when I had considered moving to Android when Apple announced they were axing the headphone jack, only for Android phones to do exactly the same thing. And then there's privacy and security concerns about using a free OS on top of all that, and no iMessage. So I will likely be staying iPhone for the foreseeable future.

 

I see the apple juice is working on you quite nicely. Apple's OS is no safer than any other OS. Android phones now have just as good security. (stop downloading third party junk apps), better cameras, better battery life, expandable storage and are way more affordable. I am using the iPhone 11 now because of imessage but my new phone will NOT be of the fruit persuasion. Apple has nothing Android phones do not offer now, most times its less, and for more money.

 

They certainly are a HORRIBLE value (an oxymoron of sorts) and that's why for personal use for most of my life I have always just went with whatever piece of crap was included for free with a plan. The overpriced options were still garbage, so going with the free trash just made the most sense.

See, we do have something we can agree about.

 

The only thing that keeps me with Apple is blazing fast performance on the CPU/GPU, a lag free OS, and iMessage. Otherwise I would be phone agnostic, but Qualcomm is so far behind the curve with CPU/GPU performance and android is a bloated mess to cater to the lowest common denominator among the plethora of phones that run it. Usually it’s the opposite in the PC world. We have overpowered hardware that can overcome windows lowest common denominator penalties, while Mac uses lower performance stuff because they’re optimized to do so. There’s a reason why iPhone is apples best selling product, and their computers are among the worst performing part of their portfolio

 

I hope this peace lasts as long as it can!

There is no alternative for iMessage unless all carriers over the world opts for RCS that works on iOS & iPads.
Android's aren't lagDroids nowadays. Once you price match Android and iPhone the performance stays the same most of the times. Most phone these days are more powerful but doesn't come close to Apple Silicon.
Have been using Windows phone for quite a long time and switched to Android One phones and Android One phone felt laggy after A10 update and performance started to go down the drain along with Samsung like Mysterious battery drain that doesn't get logged in battery stats even in adb mode. Once Pixel 4a was available I grabbed it and it felt very different from usual Android phones from Samsung, Nokia and Motorola. It was fast and had no UI lag even on Android 11.

 

I have been staying on my LG v20, every now and then I feel like upgrading but I dont like what I see in the market quite yet, sealed batteries being a point of contention for me. Battery + headphone jack + expandable storage with decent specs and I would be a happy camper. This was before I knew I was asking for the impossible lol

So I just repair my LG v20 when I need to and keep moving along. There isnt anything on the v20 that doesnt supply my needs. Do I want a dual screen phone? Yes, Do I need a dual screen phone? No

 

The only reason I would buy another is imessage, but I would pay to use that new messaging service and have the old iphone 4 stuck in a corner plugged in. I am done with apple. POS company. Their devices are supremely overrated. Android since android 10 has been better than iOS. Once my cheap samsung got A10, it was just as fluid as my ipad.

 

iPhone 4S
-Great phone, but I got it at the end of it's life cycle and it was abhorrently slow on the last version of iOS it got (thank god for deca5)
iPhone 6S
-Had that phone for a super long time, wasn't anything ground breaking aside from the fact that it just well, worked, and worked well.
Galaxy S9+
-Was an amazing phone, let me experience android in one of the best ways possible, but lack of iOS and Apple features forced me to switch back to a
iPhone X
-Current daily driver, its worked great, battery has held up and the A11 still beats modern lower end android phone so it's certainly not lacking in performance.
Eyeing a 13 Pro Max or whatever if it has 120Hz, if not I'll pick up a 11 Pro Max or 12 Pro Max on clearance.