What was your first Smartphone?

[jeffk]

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

Fun fact: Nokia are the ones who coined the term smartphone, to describe phones that sat between their communicators (big PDA phones with keyboards) and feature phones.

So, yeah, the Nokia N-series phones were definitely smartphones even if they were primitive by today’s standards.

 

[Feek]

Define smartphone.
I had a Nokia Communicator thing in the late 90s. Does that count?

 

[unKle]

My first touchscreen smartphone was the O2 XDA II. To be able to use satnav I had to run a magentic gps aerial stuck to roof of my car. Thing would never connect to satellites! Take it all for granted now.

 

[Removed User 345456]

O2 XDA II won on the original first pages on ebay haha! Used to swap 2 batteries over daily so I could play the wicked port of Tomb Raider and watch DIVX rips on it! LOVED that thing!

 

[unKle]

Used to run emulators on mine, nothing really changes 20 years later!

 

[throwaway4372]

Define smartphone.
I had a Nokia Communicator thing in the late 90s. Does that count?

yeah that was cool, it counts.

 

[Removed User 345456]

Used to run emulators on mine, nothing really changes 20 years later!

I'm very jealous, I managed to break the power connector on mine, so forever was using the dock itself to charge a battery at a time haha, it had AWFUL battery life, or maybe that was the batteries I bought/it came with, who knows haha!

 

[Removed User 345456]

yeah that was cool, it counts.

Them and those fast sliding Matrix phones were awesome!

 

[IvanDobskey]

First smartphone was an iPhone 3G.

It really did blow me away at the time.

 

[biron_w]

T-Mobile pulse was my first smart phone. It was also the first phone that I ran a custom ROM on.

 

[Smeghead]

I think it was a Nexus 4. I was stupidly resistant to smartphones first, and was adamant that I hated the idea of typing on a non-tactile keyboard/keypad. Live and learn.

 

[Feek]

yeah that was cool, it counts.

It was terrible!

 

[scrivz69]

Nokia 3310 lol, great at the time.

 

[kona786]

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.

I still have my G1 somewhere.

I just sold an old minidisc player for £250.

There's collectors for everything.

 

[Jonny2284]

N95, it was a decent phone, but they were resting on their laurels way too much and the first Iphone and early Android experience just blew it away.

 

[413x]

Ooh I remember it well.

IPhone 1.

I got it imported from USA before it was available in the UK.
I spent hours and hours trying to jail break it (back then it was an absolute dog, plugging cables in, loading software, messing with the boot loader etc, thought I'd bricked it more than once. I almost gave up on it!

But when it worked people (no exaggeration) would stop me to ask "is that the iPhone?".. "how did you get that?".. Or just "wow"

I've never owned another apple product but it was revolutionary.
I got it in August 2007 I think. As I was working during the summer holiday

 

[Reuben klang]

iPhone 2g for me as well, never known it to be called iPhone 1 though.

Got it via o2 though. I got it all set up on iTunes, account with o2 then realised oh I can jailbreak this.

The album in the iPod app when you’d flip the phone on its side and scroll through the albums with their covers was amazing. Everyone was “wow” the camera and maps use to take forever to load on EDGE.

Absolutely mental to think about that now.

 

[Sheff]

Motorola MPX200 with Windows Mobile. It had an optional camera that connected via the SD card slot and any wav file could replace system sounds, including ringtones and startup etc.

 

[Flibster]

Motorola A1000.

Same I think. On Three.

 

[A2Z]

HTC something, can't remember the model, but pretty sure it was the first phone with a touch screen as well as keyboard.

I remember I paid £570 for it from Handtec, as after opening it and using it for about 2 minutes I decided to return it. I could tell the smart phone/touchscreen technology was not quite there yet, and better save my money for something better.