What was your first Smartphone?
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I got an Orange San Francisco and thought I was doing some kind of magic by unlocking it and installing Android gingerbread
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HTC Desire was the first proper 'smart' phone I had - prior to that, it was waves of ever changing mobiles with various new features (clamshells with swivel cameras, an extra mini screen etc etc) - none of which ever struck me as being anything more than a prettier mobile than the one before - so weather I had an earlier smartphone and it went under my radar...?
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I had the HTC Wildfire. It was small and hard to use. Was recommended to me by Three. I sent it back and swapped it for the Galaxy S. It was an eye opener of a phone for me. Loved it.
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Think mines was either the galaxy S1 or some lg thing. Many years ago. Never converted to apple.
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Smartphone? Hm, an S2 that I still have in a drawer.
E: Didn't make the jump from dumb phones until then.
E: Didn't make the jump from dumb phones until then.
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HTC Desire. Still in use as a phone alongside a Nokia G10
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That’s a re-badged Motorola E1000.
Do the buttons on either side of the screen still work? I remember them being horribly unreliable when I had one as carry/test device at 3 UK.
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Nokia 1610 and NEC P3 *Cough* clone king 
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I had the very first Android phone that was released, the Google G1. In the UK it was also known as the HTC Dream as they made it for Google.
Also it didn't have a headphone slot even all the way back then, it came with a set of mini usb slot headphones that annoyed users, most Android phones returned to using headphone slots for many phones subsequently till Apple "invented" not having them as standard a decade later.
Still have it in a drawer and with the quaint slide out keyboard seems they're fairly valuable to collectors for such an old and redundant phone.
Also it didn't have a headphone slot even all the way back then, it came with a set of mini usb slot headphones that annoyed users, most Android phones returned to using headphone slots for many phones subsequently till Apple "invented" not having them as standard a decade later.
Still have it in a drawer and with the quaint slide out keyboard seems they're fairly valuable to collectors for such an old and redundant phone.
I loved the Mosquito game that came with that phone! The first AR game ever released?
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Worked fine last time I powered it up in 2015 - battery tried to pop since and been unable to get a replacement so just a beautiful ornament now
Just had a look at the e1000, and it isn't the same phone. The SX1 came out in 2003, the E1000 in 2004
http://gsmversus.com/motorola-e1000/siemens-sx1/
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I had a succession of high end Sony Ericsson camera phones but the first proper smart-device I can remember was probably the MDA Vario which was a HTC Windows Mobile device with a keyboard - but it was incredible at the time with a decent web browser (Opera Mobile), MSN Messenger and cut down versions of Office! It was great for Uni!
After that I had an iPhone 3G but I've been very much an Android User since then (except for 1x iPhone 8 Plus when I gave them a go again, mainly as I've always loved the iPad Pro)
After that I had an iPhone 3G but I've been very much an Android User since then (except for 1x iPhone 8 Plus when I gave them a go again, mainly as I've always loved the iPad Pro)
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Me three. I weighed it up against the first iPhone and concluded the Nokia was the better choice
(A few months later the iPhone was heavily reduced in price. I got one and the n95 was thrown in a drawer before I'd even finished setting the iPhone up.)