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.
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.
T-Mobile G1
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.
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.
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.
My first was the HTC Dream (G1) followed by the Motorola Droid - still miss their form factor before everything became the black slab.
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.
2010, got the MyTouch 4G. Was running Foryo 2.2, but I ended up putting CyanogenMod on it.
My first wasn’t even an actual android! I had an HTC touch pro running Haret that would reboot the phone into Android. Was so great despite the quirks and bugs since… well Windows Mobile has plenty of that going on anyway.
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.
HTC Evo 4G, and I was living in an area with WiMax at the time too. It felt so futuristic coming from a Blackberry.
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.
My first phone was the 2011 Galaxy Ace with more RAM than usable storage.
I got a Samsung S2 in 2013 I guess. Was from my employer, where I could choose between that phone and an iPhone, which would cost me extra (and I had to return the iPhone when leaving, withiut reinbursment). I rooted the S2 pretty soon after I got it to be able to install Titanium Backup.
I wish I had the phone still, but just before I left the charge port failed and I got a battered one from an ex colleague. On peaving I could buy it, which I would have done with the original, but not the write-off I got.
HTC Droid Incredible in July 2010. That phone was a slow piece of shit and I loved it.
First Android phone was a Motorola Moto G4. Solid phone, great budget buy at the time. Replaced it with a refurbished Galaxy S9 in 202, which is actually still serving me to this day. My S9 is showing its age now, but I’m refusing to buy a phone that does not have a headphone jack, so I’m going to run it into the ground.
First Android device was actually a Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet (16GB storage, 1GB of RAM). Ended up running Jellybean, and finally KitKat, off of a microSD card to keep it going. Actually still have it, but flashed to Android 7. Gapps doesn’t install, but I’m impressed it was able to run as well as it did.
One Plus Nord N30
