Cell phone memory lane

4ringsnbr · March 2, 2012

When switching to Verizon recently, I felt a little nostalgic as I packaged up my 20 month old EVO 4G (which had never seen 4G) to send in to get back my ETF. I dug through my box of old phones-- I had a habit of keeping an old phone in case I had to reactivate it for an emergency situation. I thought I'd do a history of my cell phones and see if other members felt any nostalgia and wanted to share their phone histories as well.

Here goes:

First Phone: Nokia 252 on Alltel... AMPS all the way! I threw this phone away years ago...

Second Phone: Samsung SPH-N400 1xRTT when I first joined Sprint in October 2002. PITA that you had to get on the web everytime you got a text since it didn't have SMS, but the phone still works if I still had an old Sprint universal charger.

Third Phone: LG VI-125 SMS at last!! This phone still works if I could find one of those universal Sprint chargers.

Fourth Phone: LG LX-250 Bluetooth! I got a car with it, so had to get a phone to use it. This phone didn't use the Sprint charger so I remember having to buy a car charger-- but this little guy still works.

Fifth Phone: Samsung Instinct smart-ish phone... I had the MSL so I enabled the PAM and tethered all the time. I remember how lucky I was with this phone and its 2 batteries after Gustav when we didn't have power for 5 days and the land line went out for a week too. I sent this back to Sprint for a rebate when I got my Evo.

Sixth Phone: HTC EVO 4G -- a great phone when on wi-fi or running a Verizon PRL... In pristine condition with an unused WiMax radio so I get $50 for it to pay my ETF!

Seventh Phone: Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX -- holy battery, batman! and Oh, LTE!!!!

Edited March 2, 2012 by 4ringsnbr

pyroscott · March 2, 2012

I was thinking of starting a thread like this. I can't remember all my phones that I have had, there are a couple phones that I will probably leave off, but I'll do my best to remember.

Samsung Uproar-Not sure if this was my first phone, but if I had something before this, it was not memorable. This was the first ever MP3 phone and was really cool back in 2001 with its 64mb of storage for mp3s.

Sanyo SCP-6000-Super thin, I called this phone "the tampon" as it was .39 inches thick and roughly the shape of a tampon.

Sanyo SCP-4900-Phone broke, Sprint rep talked me into this phone which was one of the first color screen phones, but the screen broke almost the minute I walked out the door.

Sanyo SCP-8100-Basic Flip phone with a camera.

Samsung SPH-A600- Not just a flip phone but the screen also rotated so you could close it with the screen exposed...Pure junk.

Samsung VGA1000- This got the most use of any phone. It was durable and had some lasting power. Either phones didn't progress much or I didn't care.

Some 3rd world Nokia (maybe 5165)-Had this while I was deployed. $0.40 per minute on a prepaid, I didn't use it much.

Motorola i265 - First Nextel work phone. This thing took a bath several times and kept on ticking, but it got scratched so bad I could barely read the screen and I begged for a flip phone.

Samsung MM-A920 - Personal phone. Great combo of features, it got plowed into a snowbank at work and I called it, heard it ringing and dug it out of the snow. Never worked right after that, but the company reimbursed me $400 for a new one.

Motorola i530 - Work phone. The ultimate durable Nextel phone. This was a tank.

Motorola ic502 - Work phone tester. Sprint/Nextel Hybrid. Not that great, but it was decent.

Motorola Renegade - Personal phone. SDC worked like garbage and killed the battery. I gave up on direct connect after owning this phone. It was a giant disappointment coming from the i530 and ic502. It didn't help that the wife had a "smart" phone and I was stuck with a flip phone.

HTC Hero - I thought it was cool for a few months until the Evo blew it out of the water. The only way it was usable was with custom ROMs. I credit this phone with teaching me to root phones out of necessity.

HTC Evo 3D - Had this for a few months, bought it off Craigslist to save my upgrade for LTE phones, then upgraded to the E4GT and gave this to my sister.

Samsung Epic 4G Touch - Amazing phone, I could have easily kept this for the entire period until my next upgrade and possibly longer.

Samsung Galaxy Nexus - This phone took the sting out of giving up my E4GT. I keep finding new things to love about this phone. LTE, AOSP, ICS, no shutter lag, good battery life. I don't know how I waited this long to own a Nexus. Love it.

There was also a Motorola DPC-550 in there somewhere as a temporary work phone.

twospirits · March 12, 2012

Alright folks, as the title states, List all your Sprint phones that you have ever owned/currently have.

Except for the last one which isn't on Sprint (yet), those are the ones I've had.

TS

pyroscott · March 12, 2012

Samsung Uproar-Not sure if this was my first phone, but if I had something before this, it was not memorable. This was the first ever MP3 phone and was really cool back in 2001 with its 64mb of storage for mp3s.

Sanyo SCP-6000-Super thin, I called this phone "the tampon" as it was .39 inches thick and roughly the shape of a tampon.

Sanyo SCP-4900-Phone broke, Sprint rep talked me into this phone which was one of the first color screen phones, but the screen broke almost the minute I walked out the door.

Sanyo SCP-8100-Basic Flip phone with a camera.

Samsung Something- Not just a flip phone but the screen also rotated so you could close it with the screen exposed...Pure junk.