If a stranger made a compliment about my phone, any phone, I’d think that they were a bit odd 🙂
However, the only phone that I owned that caused a bit of a stir (not direct compliments) was the original iPhone. In those days it was hard to actually demo a phone. In the UK there weren’t Apple shops that I can remember and mobile phone shops only had displays with dummy units literally nailed to a board. If you actually wanted to look at a working device then you can to deal with some unpleasant cocky sales person.
I can remember being at a party and everyone crowded round just to have a go with the iPhone. It was stuff like scrolling a web page, pinch and zoom, the music carousel... people would literally go “ohhh and ahhhh” simply by scrolling up and down. But there was nothing else like it.
The other thing that amused me was that at the time people thought it was a big phone. You’d often hear people moan about it being too big for their pockets! But in those days manufacturers were trying to go smaller and smaller. Small phones where considered desirable. Big phones outdated bricks. Now, if you see an original iPhone it looks tiny. How things change.
