What phone did you have before the G1?

[slave1]

T-Mobile MDA Vario 3, should have G1 this week.

 

[Ageless Stranger]

Blue angel highly modded

 

[jwdevil]

I had the MDA for over 2 years. Unlocked and upgraded to WM6. Great phone, but was getting worn out.

 

[sidkapur30]

SE P910i (broke it), Nokia 8800 (loved the retro-mettalic look, lost it), SE K790i (gave it to a friend, decent phone), Nokia 3230 (someone took it out of my pocket, dear god pin that man up against the wall and spank him with a cactus.. Amen), now a Motorola phone C168 (found it lying around at home, dont want to buy one yet, waiting for the G1).... that's the last year or two...
Lets hope i get the G1 sometime soon... i hate this Motorola phone


Sid

 

[mg27]

I had the RAZR2 V8.

 

[tookule4skool]

I had a SE k800i and loved it, by the end of that phones life it was getting a bit on the slow side but had all the features i could ever want in a phone and am looking forward to Sony Ericson's android phone next summer =D can't wait.

 

[Babaki]

i had a k850i. i loved it, but i wanted a keyboard.

 

[BLW1987]

MDA Compact 3

 

[BEGreen87]

Nokia 3530, had it for about 6 years before I got the G1. Only two phones I've ever had. Keeping it just in case something happens.

 

[skeptic82]

Motorola V360 (crap), Blackberry 8100 (slow), G1 (Face!).

 

[justjimjpc]

SonyEricsson P990i ... definately keeping it for Camera/video .... video-phone if I ever get a friend that has that capability too...

 

[digitalglory]

I had a nokia e61I definitely a nice phone

 

[abgarza]

I always had the cheapest I could get, until I picked up an Sidekick 08 a few months ago. G1 is a huge jump for me.

 

[johnkzin]

I had a nokia e61I definitely a nice phone

The E61i is what I had immediately before the G1 as well.

Good phone. I miss a few details (tethering and syncml client). But otherwise, I love my G1.

 

[Lizalu68]

I had an unlocked Samsung Blackjack 1..which my son just inherited after I got my phone

 

[MzBlack]

I had a nokia N95 and still have it... love my N95

 

[benmarvin]

Blackberry 8320, 8300, 8700g, 7100i (notice a pattern here?).
Yeah, I was addicted to Blackberry for a long time. And I had been craving a Google phone ever since the rumors started years ago, and I've been nothing but pleased with the G1. Can't wait to see what the next round of hardware for Android will be.

 

[serjohn]

I had a crackberry pearl until this last week when I picked up the G1. So far I love it and prior to the G1 coming out I though I would be a Blackberry forever person. Nice thing is the Backberry is going to be sold for 85 clams which means the G1 will have only really cost me $100.

 

[RozzaC]

I used to have a Nokia 6233 alongside my Sony Ericsson W890i.....

I upgraded my Nokia 6233 for the G1 which is now alongside my W890i =)

 

[setspeed]

Been Nokia all the way, N85, N73, 6230, and before that some cr*ppy Samsung that I hated from the moment i got it.
Definitely an Android lover now, although I hope the manufacturers dont all decide to go full touchscreen in the future, like the G2 - I like having a hardware keyboard.

 

[RozzaC]

Agreed, I definitely prefer a physical keyboard to a virtual keyboard.

 

[justjimjpc]

I like both and find that they each have they value in different situations ... so I hope they keep both on some of the future models ...

 

[johnkzin]

I hope they keep both on some of the future models ...

I definitely agree with this -- variety and choice are the best path.

I hope that, over time, we see Android in MANY flavors:

1) side-slide physical qwerty keyboard (Dream, Rhodium 100, etc.)
2) keyboardless candybar (Magic)
3) half-face qwerty keyboard (not sure about the HTC name, but like the T-Mobile Dash)
4) portfolio flip micro-laptop (like the Nokia E90) (there's a German linux-phone maker that has a model like this, and has recently started talking about putting Android on their phone)
5) swivel screen convertible tablet micro-laptop (HTC Universal)
6) riser candybar with qwerty or true-type keyboard (like the Palm Pre, or a variation of the T-Mobile Shadow)
7) riser candybar with 12-key (like the Nokia N95)
8) possibly a standard candybar with 12-key
9) maybe a standard flip with 12-key
10) maybe a standard flip with true-type or qwerty (like the Blackberry flip)
11) larger-than-phone devices, like the HTC Advantage

Personally, I'd LOVE to see an HTC Rhodium 100 based Android phone, a Nokia E90 type Android phone, or an HTC Universal type Android phone. I could even go for an "HTC Advantage" type device, but would greatly prefer it to be a swivel screen design -- like a large and modernized HTC Universal.

Imagine an HTC Universal with an HTC Advantage like 5" screen, widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio that is at least 800x480, 5 row keyboard (like the Dream), dpad and android buttons on the face, Quadband GSM, Quadband WCDMA (Euro, Asian, AT&T, T-Mo-USA), Wifi, 1 or 2 full size SDHC card slots, one or two micro-USB Host/OTG ports, a mini-USB client port, 3.5mm headset, Apple micro-Display port (for TV, VGA, DVI, HDMI based upon adapters), A TON OF BATTERY LIFE, more RAM, more internal Flash storage, much better camera with flash, maybe a chat cam, FM radio, maybe a TV tuner of some flavor, maybe dual SIM cards, running a version of Android that has improved GMail support ("send as", edit/add filters, edit labels, view original message, super-stars), improved Google Reader (add/edit labels/tags, subscription manipulation, use keyboard shortcuts when a physical keyboard is present), improved Google Docs (integrated with Gmail, read/write), improved IM (non-GoogleTalk Jabber servers, multiple accounts of each type (including GoogleTalk), multiple accounts (of all types) active at once, save conversation logs to SD card), better VNC+SSH integration, integration with Google Voice, Wifi/BT-DUN/BT-PAN/USB based tethering, and the ability to independently turn on/off each data protocol (2G data, 3G data, Wifi) (or select which SIM card to use if it has dual SIM cards, so you could have voice+messaging on one SIM card, 2G+3G data on the other, or you could go wifi-only, etc.). Oh, and, I suspect MMS doesn't work right now as I can't receive MMS messages ... so it should do MMS as well.

THAT device, I would be ALL over. I suspect a keyboardless version of that device would sell decently as well (just not to me).

 

[Spikey1109]

This is my first smart phone. I've always carried serarate devices so that I didn't have to play follow the leader ... or in some cases the loser.

Seeing that it's an open source op ... that was the close for me. I know there will be many updates on the G1 for years to come. Now if they can just set the dang SD card to load apps .....

+1

 

[jmar]

Necro-thread!

I had a Nokia candy bar phone on MetroPCS before and quite a while after the G1. First Smartphone I bought was the LG Ally in July of 2010.