Were you an early adopter of android?

>>58499507
I was an early adopter of Symbian S60.

yeah i had the g1

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I sort of miss the physical keys.

>>58499507
Nope, Windows Mobile was more sane choice back then.

Nah, I had a s60 Nokia for a long time. My first android version was kitkat.

earliest I saw one was a few friends of mine in 2010 had the original droid. I was blown away since my iphone 3g did fucking nothing impressive.

2.1 was the first version of android I used

>>58499606
Same

>>58499507

Had the G1

Makes leaving for iOS hard, it feels subconsciously like I failed along with Android to provide security and privacy to end users

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>>58499507
yep, i used galaxy spica with android 1.5, it was the year i learned aboud, xda, kernels, roms, fastboot, ect. currently going strong with rooted oneplus one

Yup. Dumped my BB Storm for the G1

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>>58499507
Yes the Xperia play famalam, only if there was a modern remake of it

>>58499598
iPhone 3G was the greatest phone ever created.

My Android 1.6 LG GT540 died after two drops of rain

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>>58499507

I had been with them from the beginning.

Shame about the devices. Android is still superior to iOS in many ways. But I just wanted a small phone again.

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>>58499507

bought on launch used till 2015

>>58499591
Love my spica too, sadly mine was bootlooped. :(

>>58500241
That thing must have been great for emulation

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WAKE ME UP

>>58500730
Not him but I'm really happy playing game boy on there. Hoping project ara will done but, seems like it just a myth to be done.

My first Android phone was a Galaxy S II back in March 2013. It was with ICS installed but I just rooted it as soon as I got it and installed CM10 or whatever Jelly Bean was.

I started on gingerbread. So not early early, but early enough.

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Everybody thought my Dell Streak was huge at the time.

My first smartphone was Sony Ericsson Xperia X10i with Android 1.6. Rocked that fucker for 4.5 years until it couldn't keep up anymore. Still have it in my drawer. The champ still boots up and works.

>>58500641

Sony Z series. I went there after the Phablet movement started.

>>58499507

Played with a spooner device before launch. Got a G1, and various other devices since. Highlights include a Desire Z, Droid, Droid X2, Nexus 5, HTC Rezound, Z1, Z3 (T-Mo), Z3 Compact (unlocked), some low-end Galaxy, and many others.

Currently using a Z3 (T-Mo), cause it's battery life honestly is god-tier, and it's the all-around best phone I have ever used, hands down. Feels fucking fantastic in the hand. Fantastically balanced, feels high-quality, stuff feels like it was thought out. Used it without a case for half it's life. Then just got a cheap silicone "skin" for it. Still feels great. There's heft, but no real weight still. Performs fantastically in everything I ask it to do. 4k video, high-quality stills (maybe not Galaxy S7 quality, but whatever. Good enough I don't need a compact camera), games, "VR/AR", music sounds fantastic, speakers sound good, screen quality is amazing for 1080p, battery life is the best of any Android device I've owned, MicroSD Card means basically unlimited internal storage, magnetic charging, and still has a spot for charms/hand straps, which I used when I went hiking. Put it on a tether attached to my belt, but loose enough to sit in my pocket. Didn't have to worry about dropping it down canyons when taking pictures.

>>58502486
>Sony Z series.

I had a Z1 Compact, briefly. The Sony modifications to the OS were stupid, and the TV-style auto brightness based on screen content was endlessly annoying.

>looking at dark app in bright sunlight, dims screen so you can't read it
>looking at white app in the dark, ramps up brightness to fucking blind you

And you can't turn it off. Not even rooting the device will let you. It's done in hardware.

Nexus or nothing. And since the line doesn't exist anymore, iPhone SE it is.

>>58500758
Yes! It's actually was a great phone, except for no flashlight ofcourse.

>>58499507
Nope, I got my first smartphone (nexus 5) at end of 2013 and still got it. Once it dies I will buy a dumdphone as I don't need a smartphone.

Yes, it was shit. Windows Mobile was better at a time. it got usable about 2 years ago, but I recently switched to iphone, not coming back

>>58499507
nope, flip phone until Android 2.2.

>>58499507
I used a nokia 5110i till 2007.

switched out the backlights to really REALLY deep red ones that hurt most people's eyes looking at my screen.

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OUTTA MY WAY GLASS FUCKING SHITS
>literally indestructible
>removable battery WHILE being waterproof
>waterproofing is by a rubber gasket assembly, not meme-tier adhesive
>legit could be used to smash someone in the face because of the metal rim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F92CvRflk18

>>58499507
yep. i still have my droid eris somewhere

>>58503071
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXB9k9vfPV8

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My 1st phone was this, running 2.1 Eclair

>>58499507
I got my first smartphone a year ago.

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ran 2.2 on it
used all my storage for GoLauncher apps thinking it'll save my battery

My first android had a screen res of 320x240
Worst decision ever

>>58503149
I was symbian at the beginning but my first android was this, was a great wee phone

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>>58499507
Not really, my first Android device was a 250GB Archos 70 tablet back in 2011, it ran Gingerbread. One of the first devices to the shitty onscreen buttons. Hated them then and hate them now. My first smartphone was an ADP1 running Donut though

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>>58499595

This. Windows PPC 2002 - Windows Mobile 6 was actually dope as hell. I remember when the G1 Android phones first came out and one of the guys I worked with came to me showing it off. I pulled out my Sprint PPC 6800 (HTC Mogul) and was like "Yeah, this thing does all of that and then some"

I did the same thing to iPhone users except with my ancient (by that time) Hitachi G1000.

>>58499507
Yeah, I bought one early and figured I'd start making apps. Didn't make a single one and I got stuck with a POS phone which was obsolete by the time Eclair was released.

>>58503306
>running android on a HDD
What was that like?

HTC Legend OCd to 806 MHz.
Played yetisports all day.
Used it from 1.5 all the way to kitkat as a second phone.
Still ise it today when i go to the gym

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>>58503318
Yep, winmobile was great. Too bad MS killed it with their winphone7 shit.

Had an Xperia X8.
Was great, but became outdated pretty quick

>>58503348
Not too bad, was great having so much storage in such a device. I still love the difference in storage capacity between the two options for the model, 8GB or 250GB.
I was going to crack it open and replace the drive with a 1.5TB one but then it got kill by a CRT falling on it.

>>58499507
Fuck no.

Android was unusable until ICS

>>58500647
I had one of those. That thing was the shit when it came out

>>58502627
Current user of a Z1 compact here. I used to be annoyed by that auto brightness feature but honestly I don't really notice it much nowadays. After a year I've just kinda gotten used to it I guess. It is absolutely fucking retarded that you can't disable it, but I think it's a kernel-level tweak Sony made. I don't recall it happening when I used an AOSP rom.

Good small phone, too bad the camera is meh and the Z3c and Z5c also have meh cameras. Huge shame the XZc is crap.

>>58500540
Nexus S was my first device. Probably the best phone I'll ever have owned. Ended up giving it to my poor friend in Colombia

>>58502406
I remember that. People used to mistake them for iPads

>>58503937
>Nexus S
>best device
confirmed for not actually owning one.
It certainly wasnt the worst device not he market, but it had a number of flaws and problems

>>58503748

except millions of people were using it before ICS.

I had a phone on Froyo (LG Optimus T) and could do pretty much anything I wanted. My gingerbread phone was also good (Samsung Galaxy S 4G).

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Gingerbread to Marshmallow

Lost interest in Android after Nexus line stopped being subsidized

Pixel pricing is delusional

>>58504021
Nah it was certainly better than the iPhone 4 I had switched from. I didn't have any issues that I remember.

>>58504385
creaky plastic
screen got pretty damn warm after a few minutes use..early AMOLED issues like burn in were present too
limited system memory despite 16GB built in
hummingbird processor had no discrete GPU so graphics could get pretty laggy sometimes, getting worse on newer versions of Android.
etc etc

>>58499507
I was underageb& when android first came out

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this baby lasted 4 years, still miss the physical keyboard

>>58504509
It came out 9 years ago, I'd imagine most people here were.

>>58503748
Nice one.
Here, have your "People that don't know what they're saying." award.

>>58504526
We need modern phones like this

>>58499507
I had a Galaxy Mini.

It was horrible.

>>58504582
agree. last android with keyboard i remember is motorola droid 4 (a 2012 phone)
i think there are some recent bbs that can run on android but they are expensive as fuck

>>58499507
Got an HTC Magic on release, it was a pos. Swapped to ios when the 4s came out and never looked back.

>>58504718
>expensive as fuck
The Priv can be had for a few hundred, hell for less you can get an even better phone running BB10OS like a BlackBerry Classic or Passport.

>>58504750
i have never payed over 150$ for a phone. where i live privs go for 400-500$

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>>58499507
I was sorta early I suppose. I enjoyed Android 2.1 on my HTC MyTouch 3G Slide back in the day. It was just so damn comfy and ergonomic.

>pic related

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>>58505129

>>58505129
I really liked HTC Sense back then, more than stock android/CM6

>>58500776
I thought project Ara was scrapped.

>>58504213
>>58504576
>Ever release before ICS was fucking dog shit ugly
>Usability was shit
>Lacked basic features

Google shills pls

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>>58499507
The Huawei U8230 was my first android. In 2008 or 9 I think. It was shit compared to my Nokia N95 symbian phone. That was a god tier phone when released. I'd love a chunky all metal heavy phone again.

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Had Windows Mobile until iPhone launched, and then every iPhone from the 2G to the 5.

It wasn't until ICS that Android stopped looking childish and cartoony to my eyes, even then it noticably stuttered and lagged during use. When I saw Jelly Bean and "project butter", Android finally became something I felt I'd be happy to use. Given with my annoyance at wanting a bigger phone, I made the jump and bought the Nexus 4.

I also got a, Spica. Nice phone for the price during the first year, then the extremely anemic internal storage (like 512MB for both system and data partitions) became problematic when apps started ballooning in size. Take into account back then most stuff was 1MB or 2MB tops, didn't store much cache, and any app north of 5MB was considered fucking massive. Soon I was in the game of integrating a bunch of apps and their updates as system apps through Titanium Backup as it was the only way to have some user space left (less than 20MB and the system would start complaining and delaying notifications). It was a time where buying a budget or midrange phone meant you better learn how to root it and flash CM if you wanted something remotely usable, and SD cards speeds was just not up to par to install apps there, no wonder Google removed that for quite long.

>>58499507
No. My fist phone was an iPhone 2G in late 2007. I didn't start using Android until 4.4 because old Android was a buggy mess while iOS was clean and fast and always had jailbreaks out. Now it's the opposite, though I wish Xposed could be as good as Cydia.

No, I used a Palm Pilot and a Moto Rokr until I got a Galaxy Ace

>>58505963
Out of curiosity, I remember charging it up a couple of years after throwing it in the back of a drawer, flashing the latest official ROM available (Froyo I think? Maybe Eclair) and being really amused at the fact that the internal storage wasn't enough to even update the stock apps and Google services anymore. And this was a time where Samsung used nearly stock Android because Bloatwizz was reserved for the Galaxy S and newer stuff.