Samsung Galaxy S2 was my first proper smartphone. I knew a dude who had one and I was blown away by how cool it was compared to my dumb phone. So I went and bought one for myself. Absolutely loved it.

Typing this on my S21 Ultra. Crazy how far smartphones have come in this past 10-12 years.

Motorola Droid running 1.6 Donut.

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.

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

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

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

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.

July 2016, it was a Samsung Galaxy Ace.

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??

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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.