Android

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.

Motorola Droid running 1.6 Donut.

T-Mobile G1

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.

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.

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

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

When I worked at one of the US's major wireless carriers as a manager, I snagged an HTC phone when it was one of the first Android phones. It was small but very cool. I'd been using an iPhone 3G at the time and as soon as I played around with the Android, I knew I had to have it, and never looked back! That was 2009 I think.

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

It was the htc’s from early 2010. Then I got the first galaxy phone and oh boy was that a gem for its time.

Nexus One in June 2010...still have it

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Droid Bionic. First LTE phone I could get on Verizon iirc? Had to get the expanded battery which made it pretty thicc.

Got a Galaxy Core Prime SM-G360H in 2014 before Samsung started clamping down on bootloader unlocking. It was my first Android smartphone. Was really small and comfy to hold. Specs were terrible though. Used it until 6.0 or 7 on custom ROMs. Dropped it onto the floor one day. Broke the display. RIP.

I remember writing a Tetris game for Android but this was in 2007 before we could actually get an Android phone so we only used an emulator and it was really really slow, like 0.5 fps.

I think I had a Galaxy S1 as well and it was fine. Probably got a few more Galaxies before switching to iPhone. Still use a Pixel frequently for work though.

Nexus 7 and Nexus 4 in 2013.

Had so much fun rooting and flashing ROMs on the 4.

Paranoid Android, Xposed modules, PIE controls, all that stuff.

Sony Xperia x10 mini in 2010

Best android phone I've ever had

It was an HTC Desire that I picked up in 2011 or 2012. I really liked the little "scroll button", it was like an optical trackball.

Samsung Galaxy S

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.

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.

LG Optimus Chat. Android 2.3. The worst phone I still have.

Its best feature was the flip out keyboard, but it stopped working after a bit. Its processor was so slow it couldn't play Angry Birds. And by the end it was plagued by phantom inputs.

Every other day it decodes it's not a phone. But a web browser, or a music player. While I am in the middle of a text.

My first ever Android phone is a rooted Samsung Galaxy Young, it has less than (i think) 200 MB internal storage, so I always need to delete apps at that time.

I guess rooting a phone is more straight-forward back then, just one "update" zip file, and then it's done.

I had a flip phone up until 2012 and then got an iPhone 5, then switched to Android in 2016 with the Samsung Galaxy S7. I really liked my iPhone 5 but have stuck with Android since then.

I got my first taste of Android in 2008 though when my brother bought the T-Mobile G1!

When apple started the enshittification of iPhones. Their launch of maps and trying to force Google out with a worse experience for users, just to increase profit was the push.

Now google is enshittifyijg everything, I'm looking at degoogling.

Samsung Moment. I remember choosing it for the physical keyboard.

HTC Droid Incredible in July 2010. That phone was a slow piece of shit and I loved it.

My first phone was the 2011 Galaxy Ace with more RAM than usable storage.

Got a Galaxy S3 at a sweet discount when the S4 first released, so it was probably around April 2013. I used that phone for quite a while, eventually rooting it, installing Cyanogen Mod, corrupting the filesystem, going back to TouchWiz, and finally ending on Lineage OS 14. By then though, I had moved on to using an LG G5.

i can't remember if i got the htc one or the nexus 4 or 5 first but i believe those were the first versions of android i used. i think i was doing ios up to ios 7 maybe??

Droid 2, was a hand-me-down from a friend, had mostly used an iPod Touch before then.

Of course immediately rooted and rom'd because I knew about jailbreaking, thing was pretty nifty, especially for GBA emulation with the keyboard

Galaxy s2, after being on an iPhone 3gs, Apple made it increasingly more difficult to jailbreak at the time I did not want to get stuck in their ecosystem so I bailed and never looked back.

HTC G1, but before that I put Android on my HTC Tilt2 which was a Windows CE phone so not really Android but you could side load it. This was early 2008.

I remained a blackberry user for too long. I had a number of them and I wasn't interested in the Apple phone. Then I had a terrible BB Storm which would freeze up all the time.

I called my telco frustrated by the POS. They gave me a $100 credit to go buy a pay and talk android phone (LG something) and wait for a month for the Samsung S2 to come out. Once it arrived I would be sent one. The pay and talk LG blew my blackberry out of the water as it was a full internet experience unlike the BB that was translating all internet experiences to reduce data used on networks that couldn't handle data to start out with.

The S2 was amazing compared to my BB's. I did miss the physical keyboard until I started using Swype. Then I couldn't go back.

I recall minutes being a big revenue generator for telcos, then it became data once the networks could handle it with the iPhone. Now it seems like they are giving away tons of data these days. What's driving revenue now for them I wonder?

I imported (to Sweden) a G1 from Germany in 2008. A bunch of experimentation on that and my next Android phone the HTC Desire Z in 2010 eventually helped me land a job as an Android developer.

15 years later I'm kind of sad about where it's all headed. Surveillance and user lock in...

I think my first smartphone was the LG Thrill 4G. I remember the upgrade from 2.2 Froyo to Gingerbread 2.3 being a big deal at the time.

I feel like I had to have had one before this. This phone did not come out until I was out of school and I'm pretty sure I had a smartphone during. Looking at pictures of old phones, it may have been the LG Optimus, that one feels familiar.

July 2016, it was a Samsung Galaxy Ace.