iansltx Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 It's been a good six years since we've had one of these. Saw a few threads going on at Reddit and figured we could do the same. For feature phones, there are definite gaps in this list, as I swapped phones a *lot* (hey, prepaid non-smartphones were cheap)...and this is just for the phones that I used for my main line. The smartphone list is more comprehensive, though I've picked up some other phones in some cases as secondaries that I've since forgotten. Feature Phones, in somewhat correct order; Sprint-based prepaid or Boost Mobile unless otherwise noted Nokia 5165 (Beyond Wireless GSM, roaming on Five Star Wireless, AT&TWS home network) Nokia 3560 (see above) Nokia 3595 (T-Mobile, not sure whether it was my main line ever) Nokia 6010 (T-Mobile, see above) LG VI-5225 LG PM-225 Motorola i415 Motorola i285 Motorola i450 Motorola w370 (Tracfone on AT&T...I think this was my phone rather than a brother's) Moto c261 (Tracfone on...AT&T I'm 99% sure) LG 3280 (Tracfone on VZW) Keyocera Cyclops Kyocera K132 (Pocket Communications...briefly before I returned it for a better phone as I recall) Motorola v323i (Pocket Communications, a regional unlimited provider similar to CricKet/MetroPCS that survived only a few years before being folded into CricKet) LG 840g (Tracfone on AT&T) Smartphones; primarily Sprint postpaid unless otherwise noted HTC Mogul iPhone (first-gen, unlocked, running on T-Mobile prepaid) HTC Touch Pro (booted into Android a few times with it) HTC Evo 4G (returned after a few weeks for being too big despite having no keyboard) Samsung Epic 4G Samsung Galaxy S III Google Nexus 4 (T-Mobile; reflashed baseband to get LTE since I didn't care about losing voice; secondary phone) Google Nexus 5 Moto X first-gen (Republic) Sharp Aquos Crystal (Boost...picked up the phone on a lark at Best Buy and then basically didn't use it) Moto X 2nd-gen (Republic) Google Nexus 5X LG Optimus Regard (CricKet...don't ask me why I decided to buy this) Nokia Lumia 520 (AT&T) Google Pixel (first-gen) Essential PH-1 Galaxy S20 As time has gone on, I've slowly bought fewer phones. It was crazy for a bit there, partially because I ran https://g4pp.blogspot.com. Okay, that was the excuse for me getting a ton of phones, not the other way around. In addition to the above, other family members had (I know I'm forgetting a few Motorola StarTAC (Five Star Wireless) Nokia 1221 (Tracfone on Five Star Wireless) Nokia 2126i (Tracfone on Verizon) Samsung m370 LG Optimus V Samsung Galaxy Victory HTC M8 HTC One A9 Moto E4 Plus Moto X4 One of the craziest phone deals of the lot was my mom's Nokia 5165 with CellularOne in central TX. They never bothered to upgrade most of their network to digital, except for roaming from Cingular (a few acquisitions later, they became part of AT&T), but they had some pretty solid deals. They had a $20/mo plan with 90 minutes...except for awhile they were cutting prices in half and adding 1000 minutes for free. So in the mid-2000s you had 1090 minutes for $12.46 including tax or so. I want to say long distance outside their coverage area was extra though. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PythonFanPA Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 My list is waaaaay shorter - I keep and use phones longer as I've never (especially in more recent years given how little really changes) felt the need to always go grab the latest/greatest....and I have no specifics memory of anything before my first psuedo smart phone. My first 2 phones once I ever got one were some basic Nokia model, followed by a 'feature phone' that I also think was still Nokia-based. Past that: HTC Fuze (AT&T, started out with them with my first phone when they were Cingular - think this is basically the same model as the Touch Pro Ian mentioned above, which was a WinMo phone) Epic 4G (my first Android experience, when I switched to Sprint) Motorola Photon Q (alas, the last of the QWERTY sliders) Samsung Galaxy S4 Samsung Galaxy S5 LG G5 LG G7 LG G8X 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S4GRU Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 I'm way busy at the moment to respond. But I want to add mine to the list soon. Robert 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grabber5.0 Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 This is rough off the top of my head, so I may have to edit it later. Dumb phones from 98-2007 not included. There were only a handful of those before I bought the PPC6700. The first was on Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems, before Sprint PCS was launched. PPC6700 (UTStarcom/HTC Apache)Palm Treo 800WPalm PreHTC EVO 3DPalm PreiPhone 5Palm Pre2 (w Sprint modem)Nexus 5XNexus 5LG G5LG V40LG V50OnePlus 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trip Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 I started as a US Cellular customer in about 2005. Kyocera SoHo KX1 Motorola V323i Motorola Crush Motorola Electrify Galaxy S4 Mini Switched to Sprint in 2014 when I got tired of the quite slow roaming on Verizon. Galaxy S5 LG G5 LG G6 LG G8X Naturally, I'm not counting the phones that I use for other carriers, only my primary phone. - Trip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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