RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Games and Tech What's your smart phone history?

Do any of you guys know anyone that still uses Blackberry? I'm really curious about this. Probably about 6 or 7 years ago I decided to try out the whole "smart phone" thing. I looked at two phones...the Blackberry 8830 and the Motorola Q. After about a half hour of going over it with the rep I decided to take home the Blackberry. I was so unimpressed with the 8830 within 3 days that I switched over to a Motorola Q (shittiest smart phone on the planet). It's not that there was anything wrong with the 8830 per say, but I didn't realize how much the lack of a camera and multimedia support would suck. It a great business phone for a wealthy business guy who needs to check his email when he flies over to Hong Kong, but worthless to a 24 year old tech geek who wants to surf pornhub and take pictures of girls at the bar making out.

Then after a supremely disappointing 2 years with the Q I went back to a feature phone and bought an LG Voyager (shit shit shit shit shit). I didn't make it through my contract before I decided I had enough and went back to Smart Phones, buying a Blackberry Storm at cost. At first it was cool having a smart phone that let me search the web and play music and make videos and check my email and use AIM and Gtalk....then the lack of memory and the multi-daily battery pulls started pissing me off. After 6 months of that I took it back to Verizon and asked if there was anything that could be done about that. So they upgraded me to a Storm 2 for no charge. The memory still sucked and the battery pulls, though less frequent, were still multiple times a day if not at least once a day. That and since I was using it to check my work emails and keep track of my calender it was worthless unless my boss updated his Blackberry Enterprise software. I was manually updating my phone calender at the same time as my Exchange calender every day. It was a pain in the ass and inefficient, so I switched over to a Windows phone when my eligibility came up and that was way better, but still missing features like the ability use it as external memory, no viewable file tree, and the annoying Zune integration.

Now since my contract is almost up I bought a used Droid Bionic from my company and gave my Windows phone to my wife. While I think the Droid definitely has some advantages, I miss how smooth everything worked on my Windows phone. The only reason I even bought the Droid was because I'm grandfathered into the old Unlimited data plan so I had a 4g hotspot to use with my tablet that I didn't have to worry about carrying overage on. Also I love the shear amount of free apps and the potential it has, being based on Linux.

So what phone do you guys use, and what have you used in the past?

Motorola W490. About six years later, I now have a Galaxy S3. Upgrade discount plus rebate took about $200 bucks off the cost.

I've never texted, and I still don't. I'm happy with it nonetheless.

I'll be even happier once the Firefox OS comes out and I can get rid of this crappy Droid shit.

My first phone was a Nokia 3310, I got it tricked out with a green LED because I am cool like that. Actually helps make it easier to see in the dark, as opposed to the original yellow bulb.

When i got out of college i bought myself another nokia. I forgot the model name, it was one of those first models with a qwerty pad and a different orientation (not an N-Gage, an older one). I picked it mainly for the mp3 player, but it only has 64mb of storage so I had to downsample the mp3s just to fit 12 of em.

After that I got another Nokia (Nokia used to be very popular in here), this time a smartphone. I don't remember the model name again, but it's one of those weird shaped ones with a circular keypad and an oblong shaped lower part. I remember being amazed at Symbian's ability to take in third party software (including a gameboy emulator. so awesome)

I used the oblong nokia for a long time, until it broke. The company i worked for supplied me with a phone, a motorolla one that they give out to messengers and employees who do field work. Naturally, the phones were cheap ass and weren't even considered smart phones. On the reasoning that the guys on the field are at risk of getting robbed if they had expensive gadgets. Most of the employees never bothered with the phone, and were actually embarassed to show them, so they use personal phones and just kept the company ones hidden.

After I left that company, I got myself a sony Ericsson, I don't remember the model name again (i don't bother with the names much, actually). It had a really decent camera for its time (a cybershot 5mp when most smartphones at that time have 1mp, webcam-level cameras). It also had an mp3 player and a really cool 3D tennis game.

When I got married I never really had a use for phones (because my main use for them at that time was texting women. ha-cha-cha!). Many of my friends and people I need to keep in touch with can be contacted via the Internet so I'm all set. We basically just have a single phone at the house, a Samsung Corby, that my wife and I share.

A year ago my sister gave me a Blackberry Curve. I never bothered to put a working Sim in it. I just put an old one so that it would function, and didn't bother to load credits. I use it as an mp3 player, mainly. It can still receive calls so it kind of works as a home phone/intercom.

As for experience with android, we haven't bothered with the phones as they're too expensive for our budget/needs. We do have a couple of tablets, an iPad 2 that my Mom bought but didn't use much and a Coby Mid8048 that my daughter plays with all the time. I love the android's ability to sideload apps without any need to root, but I prefer the iPad2 because it's more powerful. I don't bother with jailbreaks, so I have to stick to waiting for apps to go free (I recently got sonic jump, avengers initiative, infinity blade, captain america, and thor for free)

I got the Samsung Galaxy S III right before Christmas. It was on sale and only cost me $100. Before that I'd had a LG Optima S (it only $40 when I got it) and a Palm Centro before that. The Centro keypad was easier to master than it looks like it would. The LG's screen was just too small for the keyboard to be effective. The S III is perfect. The LG as a whole is smaller than the S III screen with the S III being just as thin with more memory and a better camera. The only thing the LG has over the S III is that the mirco SD card slot is on the outside of the LG instead of under the battery.

Palm treo to blackberry to iphone.

Samsung makes fantastic Droid phones. My current work phone is a Galaxy Note 2 and it's great. I only have to charge it twice a week and the stylus lets me fill out work orders and have the customers sign it so I can email it directly to the office to be invoiced. The voice quality is also crystal clear even on speaker phone, which I use constantly so it's nice to not have to ask people to repeat themselves all the time. I wish I could take this thing with me when I quit next week.

you can insert it into your anus and make a run for it. it's what I do, even for things that I can actually bring home.