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So before the revolutionary iPhone hit the market, what cell phone did you have?

I got the palm Treo 680 from AT&T when it first came out in November 2006, then in January 2008 I got the Wine colored Blackjack 2. I finaly got the iPhone when the 3G came out in July 2008.

I really loved the treo and blackjack, still have the treo just in case something bad were to happen with the iPhone. I sold the blackjack about a month after getting the iPhone.

Unless Apple does something better to allow better business apps into the app store (PIM programs) and ability to sync other than wifi, I may switch back to a windows mobile, palm or even try a blackberry when my contract allows another discounted phone this December.

I love the iPhone, but all the hoops I've had to jump through just to get a halfway decent task list and calendar app running the way I like has been unacceptable when Palm, Windows Mobile and Blackberry products deliver right out of the box for a lot less money. Even after all that, it's still not as seemless as what the others offer. Used to be it was a seemless sync with Outlook, now I have to sync with several different services who then have to sync with Outlook, or, in some cases I just have to type eerything 2 or 3 times because some sync conduits won't work with Outlook if you have others trying to do so as well.
 
what phone did i have ???hmmm...all

This is a list of pretty much all the phones I've had in the last 3 1/2 years
before i got the iphone

motorola V186

motoroa V555

Motorola Ravr x3

Free bell contract flip phone

Motorola krzr x3

LG chocolate (hot chocolate package)

Free telus contract flip phone

Nokia 6101

w810i x4

w580i x2

black berry pearl

Samsung D808

Lg LX175 (on virgin mobile)

black berry curve

Iphone 3g
 
I had a blackberry and the PininFarina Nextel... That phone is still pretty as heck.
 

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still have this one... waiting patiently for the new iphone to come out... Huge pain in the ass to type on the keyboard, buttons are tiny.
 

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my first & second phones were nextel phones (both not very good phones)

Next, I got the RAZR - it still is actually a good phone (small, light, easy to use, low cost)
 
The time before...

I had a Sony Ericsson K800i, the coolest phone in Europe... I thought, until i heard about the iPhone. Suddently everybody around me had an iPhone, so naturally, I had to get one too...:)
 
Crank Lucas said:
I had a sidekick 3 :rolleyes:

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Haha, I've still got mine and still using it until June to see if anything new comes out and then I'm getting an iPhone.

I've been using it for 2 whole years now. It was a hand-me-down FREE phone for me and I had been looking at getting my first "smartphone" with the T-Mobile Dash, then the sk3 was given to me so I figured, what the heck, I'll hang on to this for a couple years till my contract is up and get what I've been after ever since...the iPhone.

My time is almost here and I'm more and more excited everyday because I'll finally get one!

On the other hand, the sk3 has actually not been as bad a phone as I thought it would be. Most told me that it was mainly used by young teenagers for texting and IM'ing back and forth and not only have I found that handy, but it's not a bad internet browsing device and I can easily copy&paste, hehehe, so that might be something I miss if the iPhone doesn't have it by then.

I'll feel sorta bad about leaving it......Nah, no I won't, we had a good run together and it is literally falling apart now BUT I will say as many times as I've dropped it, it has held up remarkably well. It's just really starting to show it's age.

iPhone here I come! :D
 
I don't go through phones anywhere as frequently as I do computers ;)

I have the first generation iPhone; got it the day it was released (stood in line and all).

Before that, I had the BlackBerry 7230 (the blue-colored one) since 2003, with T-Mobile.

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Before that, I had the Sidekick (the original one), I only had it for about 6 months because I found out I hated the phone. I got it about when it came out around October, 2002.

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Before that, I had the BlackBerry 950 which I had since 1998.

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So that's 4 phones in 10 years :)
 
Before the first iPhone came out I had the HTC 8525. I was an okay phone, but the iPhone was leaps and bounds better..
 
I had a cheap $20 flip phone, LG C1500. It lasted a good 2 1/2 years.
 

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switched from Verizon to get the iPhone last november. Had this POS "iphone killer" with Verizon..
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vrflyer said:
Motorola SLVR L7 "flexed" with iTunes.

Flexed = Jailbreak. ;)


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Best phone ever all around for its size and its time. :cool:
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I had this phone also...except it just came with the iTunes and whatnot. it was a great little phone. did everything you needed a phone to do and took a beating. Except not when i whipped it at a brick wall while watching Illinois **** the bed during the Rose Bowl last year..... enter the Iphone.

Previous phones, in order:

Motorola v400
Motorola v180
Motorola T720
Siemens world phone ( i remember this phone was so revolutionary at its time....could do both GSM AND TDMA! )
Ericsson T68 (it had the ringtone Tony had on the Sopranos...)
Motorola V120 (first phone back in 2000)
 
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