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

Sony Xperia x10 mini in 2010

Best android phone I’ve ever had

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.

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!

Motorola ATRIX 4G (2011) from work. The one with the laptop dock, although we didn’t actually give out the laptop docks at work.

My favorite phones were the HTC M8 and M9. Great phones, felt very premium. We also had some HTC One X+ devices but there was a very particular issue with that specific phone in that AT&T SIM cards were just slightly not thick enough so there would be intermittent disconnection issues, generally solved by placing a piece of Scotch tape on the back of the SIM and cutting to fit. They also had a terrible tendency to overheat due to the Tegra 3 chip.

I’ve actually still got one of the original One X+ development devices - it’s white and has a serial number and some sort of code etched on the front, and a big ol’ NOT FOR SALE etched on the back. Holding it now, I miss how small phones were back in the day.

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.

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.

It wasn’t a phone but my first device was a €200 Chinese “tablet” running the latest and greatest android honeycomb.

I found it again a while ago, and my current phone has a bigger screen (6.2" v 5.5") but is less than half the size. But the barrel jack or mini usb for charging is something it definitely got right, especially considering the years of micro usb that came afterwards.

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.

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’ve got a Meizu M2 in 2015, replacing my Sony Ericsson Walkman W810 that served me well for 9 years ! The meizu was good too, until it wasn’t… one day they pushed and update that rendered it completely unusable and they took 4 month to fix. By this time I had already replaced it. Otherwise very robust despit the plastic construction, it fail off a rollercoaster once and survived without damage! I still have the phone and use it occasionally as a backup, it still works but it’s barely usable at this point because the obsolete software.

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.

Samsung Galaxy S

Galaxy Note.

I’d had the Nokia N900 previously and the huge screen size of a “phablet” sounded unique and cool.

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.