What was your first Smartphone?

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This was my first mobile phone. First smartphone was the iPhone 3G.
 
Define smart phone?
Wiki talks about phones qualifying as such from as early as around the year 2002.

I think most people think of it as their first touch screen phone, but this isn't necessarily the case as you had Blackberry and Nokia producing stuff that was smart before that with physical keyboard and no touch.

My first touch screen smart phone was a Samsung Galaxy Mini thing probably around 2012. That seems soooo late to the party looking back.
 
Sony Xperia U in late 2012. I was quite a late adopter to smartphones really.

Really liked the phone: it was tiny, and have always tried to buy small phones. Unfortunately, they're almost all huge now.

It was a bit underpowered, though, sluggish even under normal usage.

I stuck with Sony smart phones until a couple of years ago when the Sony optionsw were either bad or too expensive. Onto a Samsung S21, which I don't much like
 
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Nokia n95 for me also, although my first proper touchscreen smartphone was the HTC HD2. Such a good device, windows mobile was rubbish on it, but it had great modding support and it was fun tinkering with different custom Android roms in the early days.
 
My first touch screen phone I had was a HTC Hero. I had numerous Nokia N series phones which I guess could be classed as a smart phones? But always think of touch screen when the term smart phone is used
 
roccles said:
My first touch screen phone I had was a HTC Hero. I had numerous Nokia N series phones which I guess could be classed as a smart phones? But always think of touch screen when the term smart phone is used
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Exactly the same - N95, then I moved to an HTC Hero. Absolutely loved both of them (still got the N95 in a drawer somewhere).
 
i was late getting a smartphone, I think a used iphone 3G and that was fairly old by then.

It was my opinion that smartphones only started getting really good about 10 years ago and i was not bothered about owning models released before then.
 
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dave28 said:
i was late getting a smartphone, I think a used iphone 3G and that was fairly old by then.

It was my opinion that smartphones only started getting really good about 10 years ago and i was not bothered about owning models released before then.
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In 2008 in the hospital I worked with a lad who came all the way from Manchester to Stoke.
I've worked with people who live on their phones but not this lad, he glanced at it now and then however before he went home he would always run out of battery.
I talked him into bringing his charger with him so he at least had some form of contact if he needed it but that's when he pulled out his old Nokia :)
I couldn't believe how poor the batteries were in those early phones.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
In 2008 in the hospital I worked with a lad who came all the way from Manchester to Stoke.
I've worked with people who live on their phones but not this lad, he glanced at it now and then however before he went home he would always run out of battery.
I talked him into bringing his charger with him so he at least had some form of contact if he needed it but that's when he pulled out his old Nokia :)
I couldn't believe how poor the batteries were in those early phones.
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I think it also depended where you lived, I am really out in a rural area where the mobile signals and internet were truly horrific so smartphones were less useful than large towns and cities.

Even now there is very patchy mobile signals and it is so frustrating. I use WIFI calling in my home due to the rubbish mobile reception.
 
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