My first one was a Samsung Galaxy S1 that I got in 2013 and it was a great little device that was easy to open up and repair. It had only 512MB of RAM but that was plenty for basic phone needs, web browsing and running some Android apps like AnkiDroid at the time.

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    Mine was the T-Mobile G1. Slide out keyboard and track ball. I remember being underwhelmed by Android at the time so I switched to the Nokia N900 for a while which comparitively was more mature than android and iOS at the time.

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      Drrroooooiiiiiiddd…me too, loves that thing, just pulled it out of box the other day, plugged it into the dock thing, still works!

    • @[email protected]
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      48 months ago

      Same. It wasn’t a great phone coming from a BlackBerry. The HTC G2 is what cemented me as an android user.

      Tried the major brands and have been a pixel user since the 4.

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    Nexus One was my first Android phone. I miss the trackball every day… so handy for moving the cursor through text. And it doubled as a notification LED! So sweet. Plus the removable battery, shit was awesome. I still have it in a box somewhere. I’m on a Pixel 7 now.

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    58 months ago

    The first Android phone in our family was my mother’s Samsung Galaxy Ace. And naturally, I’ve used that phone more than she did. As a kid I considered that swipe keyboard as mankind’s greatest achievement. I would send lengthy SMS to friends and family because typing was suddenly so easy.

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    58 months ago

    My first was the HTC Dream (G1) followed by the Motorola Droid - still miss their form factor before everything became the black slab.

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    58 months ago

    iirc i used my dad’s HTC Magic when i was younger, then i used HTC Wildfire S for some time.

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      I also started with the HTC Magic. It’s the only phone I’ve used that has a trackball.

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      38 months ago

      Also a HTC Magic, that I bought on release day. Remember the excitement of flashing CyanogenMod on it with TWRP

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    58 months ago

    HTC Evo 3D. My step brother had the Evo 4g and I was infatuated with it, plus by the time I was going to upgrade my iPhone 3G was dying.

    I stayed with Android as my primary phone until like 2015 when I just kinda stopped caring about flashing roms and just wanted a phone that works. I still keep an Android phone with me.

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    HTC Evo 4G, and I was living in an area with WiMax at the time too. It felt so futuristic coming from a Blackberry.

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    2010, got the MyTouch 4G. Was running Foryo 2.2, but I ended up putting CyanogenMod on it.

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    48 months ago

    I bought the iPhone 1, 2, 3 and then got tired of Apple wanting to ruin my Jailbreak so I got a Motorola Milestone, I think it was the second Android phone to ever exist.

    Never looked back.

    Now I want more: a Linux phone. Will try eOS and Graphene in the meantime.

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    48 months ago

    My dad had the T-Mobile G1; if I recall, first ever commercial available Android phone!

    That was handed down to me after a couple years. It has as much chill factor as it did nerd factor. People laughed and were amazed at the same time. I loved it, lol

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    48 months ago

    My first was a Galaxy S1 back in 2010 which I rooted and flashed with custom ROMs almost immediately. I remember applying the various generations of Voodoo lag fixes because Samsung used cheap shitty flash storage and a slow proprietary file system. Once the Nexus S came out the dev scene took off because they had almost the same hardware. I had it running up to Android 4.2 or so before it was relegated to sitting in a drawer for good. Unfortunately I don’t know where it is now, if I still had it I’d try to boot it up and see if it still works.

  • Banned
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    HTC Droid Incredible. Having the free time to try out custom ROMs and firmware was so fun back in the day. Not much time for that anymore.