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[Android General] mutantblack:
Started with G1 as my first android phone. I thought it was awesome phone at that time. But started playing with all the rooting and changing roms is with my fav Nexus One. That phone was one of my favorite phones ever.
[Android General] atrako1973:
HTC HD2 was my first device :-)
[Android General] welchertc:
Started smartphones with the HTC dash running winmo on TMobile. Then iPhone 3g. Got bored of that after a year, pounced on the Captivate and never looked back. From the captivate I got the infuse and now my note. Long live Android. =]
[Android General] Yeti89:
I started on a moto Droid 1... now I'm upgraded to a galaxy nexus!
[Android General] tarunyad:
Used HTC elf for android many years back ..but it was so lagy n without radio :/
[Android General] lexfrmqu:
Used Droid X... Still running strong (my son uses it for kid apps), currently have a VZW locked S3 that I am unfortunately in love with. ;)
[Android General] electroman76:
HTC Diamond

For me it was running Android dual boot with Win Mo 6.1 on an HTC touch Diamond. Then the first Android device I bought was a Viewsonic G Tablet.
[Android General] AshleyJackson:
The Huawei 8510, nifty little device untill the touch screen died.
[Android General] jtcady:
LG Optimus S... and I am still using it :mad:

It has been a great intro phone (especially for free), but it is time for something new lol
[Android General] proper69:
HTC dream. Aka the first nexus device. But for me the first phone I hacked was my Nokia n95

Sent from my SGH-I897
[Android General] Grant Barker:
I lived in Japan for 4 years without a cellphone, so I really didn't need one at the time. However, I really loved computers and wanted to somehow mix my computer hobby with my work life. So I got the latest Windows Mobile Toshiba G900 from the Japanese carrier SoftBank. That phone also introduced me to XDA, flashing roms and customizing. A couple of years later I craved a larger screen, and SoftBank released the Android powered HTC Desire HD.

I still use it. I loved it so much that I made a website around it.

So the HTC Desire HD was the device that introduced me to Android.
[Android General] voyager_s:
the HTC hero introduced me to android. It was awesome from the get go. Something totally new to me. I had symbian OS Nokia e71 before that.

The hero was a great introduction made even more easier to grasp with HTC sense. Since then I've moved on to bigger badder fishes but the hero remains with me sentimentally as its probably the reason I'm an Android user.

Can't imagine what would have happened had I picked up one of those apple iPhones first. I'm glad I didn't.
[Android General] hunterl61:
The Best

My First Android was the Motorola Atrix. What a beast ;). Hard to mod but once I got the hang of it no other device would be a problem.

Would still be using it if not for some idiots wrestling in class who shattered my screen.
[Android General] whojohnjones:
mytouch 3g, mytouch 4g, lg marquee, now milestone x2 (first one to root)
[Android General] Reck1993:
Xperia Neo....
[Android General] jerrygooch:
Motorola Atrix.. good little phone
[Android General] Jason Raub:
First mobile device i messed with was Dell Axim x51v but never got android on it like I wanted, Pandigital Supernova DLX was my next device with android (blew me away), still have it but its bricked and not by my modding (shockingly) but by a faulty cable while formatting, my third device is a friend donated samsung captivate which I have and use today and that really inspired me. :highfive:
[Android General] kryptonitiko:
with a budget of 300 euros, last year, I had to choose between defy and galaxy ace....Love at first sight with defy!!! I loved that it was waterproof, always with me playing music under the shower :P
[Android General] gal95loker:
My sgs1 i9000
[Android General] TheFaixy:
galaxy s2
[Android General] ApplicationShow:
For me it was the recent Samsung Galaxy II must say though, that I am not very much impressed by it. Not sure if it's the phone itself or the OS

Getting the Galaxy III next week :fingers-crossed:, guess that will define.
[Android General] ArmorD:
Mine was ZTE Blade. I bought it about year and a half ago. It was my first real smart phone, and really loved it, despite all the problems. It had a 600MHz processor, a terrible GPU and a 3.5" crappy screen. It didn't have a lot of development here, but I used to visit a British forum called MoDaCo. We had good people there and some developers. But the coolest thing was CyanogenMod 7 as soon as Gingerbread was released. I updated my phone couple Times a week(a new nightly was released every day).

Soon, the phone had scratches in the screen(four scratches whose length was the whole screen from top to bottom, they were deep and sharp :( ), and I started to get mad at the bad performance. After one year of use,I bought Sony Ericsson Arc S. It had pretty active development in XDA, but the phone didn't suit my needs well(it was better than Blade though), and I sold it after two months of use.

Now I have Galaxy S2, and am quite... very happy of my purchase! But that's enough, I've already talked too much. Anyhow, I'm very happy that I ended up here, in the Android community. I've learned so much in so short time. Because my phone is so superb now(thanks goes to all these developers!), I'm even planning of selling my computer, because I can do pretty much anything on my phone, and i won't even bother opening up my computer!

Sent from my wallet
[Android General] Markuzy:
Mine was the old Xperia Arc.

Used it stock for a while. Then got frustrated with bloatware and the lack of control I have.

Discovered XDA and made my device spiffing speedy again.

Now I'm on a GNote.

Sent from my GT-N7000 using Xparent ICS Tapatalk 2
[Android General] extreme11191986:
I switched to a smartphone a little over a year ago and had verizon at the time. I had always used regular cell phones but decided I wanted the smartphone at that time. Every "regular" phone I ever had worked great and was fast. I assumed that every smartphone would be the same way. I was very, very wrong.

I chose a "droid citrus" because I thought I would prefer a smaller smartphone since it was more similar in size to the flip phones I was used to using. I also assumed every smart phone would work smoothly. The droid citrus was really, really laggy and slow. The touch screen was also garbage. Sometimes I would press a key during a text and it would just start pressing that key repeatedly / spot on the screen over and over. The only way to fix it was to turn the phone to sleep and rub it with a shirt or whatever and then turn it back on. It did this ALL the time. Sometimes when doing something like clicking the widget to get to texting it would literally take like 1 or 2 minutes to open up so I could start texting. Sometimes the phone was so slow that if someone called me the phone wouldn't wake up fast enough before the 30 second limit was reached and I missed the call. Other times it would take like 10 or 15 seconds after pushing the answer key to actually get the call. The phone was so slow that playing any games was not really possible it was like playing a game online with dial up and a crap computer from the 90's.

So I switched my plan to at&t recently and was able to choose a new phone. I picked the lumia 900 and obviously it blew away the droid citrus. There were some issues though, like not being able to go to settings and lock it to portrait mode. Also having to download zune software to receive updates and a few other issues. So I returned that and had them send me the new SG3.

Wow.. This phone is absolutely amazing. I think it is more powerful than my 4 year old laptop lol. I knew android was a good system it was just my citrus's hardware was garbage and couldn't handle it. I find it hard to believe they would even sell a phone that bad.
[Android General] qaz2453:
My first was the original optimus (LG gt540) :)
[Android General] skinzy98:
My parents got a vibrant and now I have it :)

sent from the bottom of a red solo cup
[Android General] Superm@π:
OG droid
[Android General] benrees21:
LG GW620 <<< POS!! I never have owned an LG after that. How they called that a phone was beyond me. SD card used to constantly un-mount at the slightest knock. Then I got the SE Xperia X10 which I loved, and was the device that got me on XDA for the first time and rooted and got 2.2 on it. Then Nexus S and now Gnex. Will never change to another OS. :)

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus running Jellybean and the one and only Trinity kernel.
[Android General] Moricon:
Samsung Moment was my 1st droid. Followed by Evo 4g, Evo 3d and now a Galaxy SIII
[Android General] Countryazhell:
I'm an OG....started with G1
[Android General] baby281:
I came late to the android game. My first Android phone is the HTC one s lol. I am having fun flashing all these different ROMS. Its great. The community is amazing. I am glad I picked this over the iPhone.
[Android General] imperial415:
I was an apple fanboy until I got my HTC amaze 4g. Haha
[Android General] tube517:
HTC EVO 4G. After the disaster of the Samsung instinct, I had to get a real game changer
[Android General] tanner195:
My lg optimus t was first android but way to small but I fell in love with android bc of my htc my touch 4g
[Android General] the_hustleman:
That's exactly the phone I came from to the evo.

I called it the "samsung - it stinks"

Worst phone ever, but it started off great.

*swyped from the evo so excuse any typos*
[Android General] atoz350:
HTC Hero for Sprint. Got it for $-4. You read that right. Couldn't pass it up.
[Android General] iorecki:
Was on the htc touch pro 2...and got a taste of running android from the SD. With the little taste of froyo and all the flaws in winmo I went and bought the evo 4g. Been downhill since then. I wouldn't even consider looking at another winmo device. Lets hope win 8 doesn't make as big of an impact as they anticipate. Who do you think is going to be the next game changer?
[Android General] MДЯCЦSДИT:
My first is the one I am currently on (Epic 4G). I am going to get a Galaxy Nexus soon since I can never trust non-google phones update wise.
[Android General] Skyrocketing:
Droid 2!
[Android General] kdog1202:
G1 straight up :p
[Android General] ntorresla:
Sammy 's captivate

Saludos desde Ecuador
[Android General] pressh:
My first android phone was a galaxy spica (i5700)
[Android General] gplock:
Mine was a HTC 8125/.HTC Wizard...XDA got me Android on it. I been Android up ever since .... well played XDA!
[Android General] Solarfried:
For me it was the galaxy s i9000 running android 2.2. Now it US running 4.0.4 and it is just awesome. I have to thank the community.
[Android General] zolaisugly:
I first started using android when I moved from se w995 normal phone, the x10 was then the big buy, which I was complete novice to what I could do or what the phone could do.

After reading in a magazine about android and how to change many things,i discovered xda, which completely changed my use of phone and now I can't stop theming, modding,roms etc

And I am now using a se arc running 4.0.4

Thanks for reading.
[Android General] kiwicasperguy:
A500 Tablet running Gingerbread, then got tired of waiting for Acer to make good on last year's promise of its update, so came to xda for ICS . So grateful to all the devs that share their brilliance on this site. The more I come here and browse the forums, the more I like Android.:D
[Android General] terax1988:
My first Smartphone HTC Wildfire S
[Android General] ketwi15:
my very first g1 :)
[Android General] Sormus:
My first android phone was Samsung Galaxy Spica, originally 1.5 phone, officially updated to 2.1 and with community updates to 2.2 and 2.3
[Android General] Odeira.Oloap:
A T-Mobile G2x (nee LG Optimus 2X.) It was on 2.3.3 GB.

My FIRST Android XP was... Terrible, for the lack of a better term.

G2x ALWAYS FROZE ON DEAD SPACE.

Lag.

Browser stutters on heavy sites, specifically Tumblr sites.

RAM inefficient. :(

Now I'm on a Samsung Galaxy S II 4G GT-i9100M on 4.0.3.

So far, things are working out really well.

I'm a bit worried on the battery life, though.

I'm waiting to see what Sony Mobile has in their cards. :)
[Android General] Alex688:
It is the galaxy s2 for me .
[Android General] AgEnT x19:
My very first Android phone is my current HTC Sensation :)
[Android General] Oscar-Mark:
My first real smartphone was a ZTE Light 7" phone (not tablet), I got this christmas but it had Froyo so I never used it and then sold it, my first Android phone was the ZTE Skate I got in february and I got into the Android community and since then I've convinced many of my friends that Android is better than iOS.
[Android General] devgee:
Nexus S running ICS 4.0.4
[Android General] Ikijää:
My friends Huawei Ideos X5. Bought SGS2 shortly after testing it, came from a Nokia 5230, so quite the jump.
[Android General] RomsWell:
OG Droid 1
[Android General] xmacex:
I installed NITdroid to my Nokia N900, which brings Gingerbread. It's clearly inadequate, bugs, lags and crashes but I can see the potential. I want an ASUS Padfone with JB :)
[Android General] Savage13:
My first Android was the HTC Desire, what a beast that was.
[Android General] LiveFaster:
Just upgraded from a Nokia nurron, to my current Samsung galaxy blaze 4g. I love this thing its amazing. But i WA pressured to pick a phone the day i upgraded i didn't have time to do some research since my dad upgraded and surprised me to choose a phone anything. As long as it was cheaper than the phone he choose, the s2. So this phone has great specs. I got it, sadly found out the development is so poor that there's like only one developer working at the moment to get a gingerbread room working. :( really sad but oh well this is my phone for the next two years I'm gonna have to get to like touchwiz on gingerbread. Can't believe a 2012 phone is shipping with gingerbread at this time :(
[Android General] pixel-painter:
Was hacking my Motorola razer since it's features were being blocked by carrier Verizon. Verizon wanted you to purchase their own ring tones so they were blocking the ability of the phone to be able to make any mp3 a ring tone. Was getting fed up, and heard about the new Android os coming out with TMobile with Google. I was one of the first gmail beta testers and was already a Google fan, so i waited 2 months for the phone to come out even though i had been off contract with Verizon for a while already.

After i got my g1 it was all history, I'm still with TMobile and i have my sensation and my next purchase will be an asus transformer infinity 700....can't wait.
[Android General] decepticon:
I'm going to have to say the iPhone is what turned me onto Android, or well Apple's practices.

I had the original, 3G, and 3GS and when they removed the Google Voice apps, that was all I needed to switch, got an HTC Magic and haven't looked back.

Coming from WM it was refreshing to come back to having control over my device.
[Android General] djluis48:
My first Android phone was a HTC G1! Goof ol' days! Then i bought a Blacberry 8520, then an iPhone 3GS, then a Blackberry 9300, then a Samsung Vibrant and now im with an Atrix 4G. Not buying another phone without Android on it. :)
[Android General] madman_sle:
First android phone was the Xperia x10...good phone, I still miss it!
[Android General] NatTheCat:
Same experience here. After Blackberry Bold 900 they all look the same, so got a 3gs and liked it for 3 month then hated A***E but the device was nice. Don't get me wrong iproducts look good but shame about the owners.

HTC Desire HD swang me over to the Big G. Never moving Hurahhh

My name is Optimus Prime and I send this message..
[Android General] inm8num2:
HTC Droid Incredible 2
[Android General] EM2_Rob:
First Android phone was the Droid by Samsung. Didn't really do much with it though.
[Android General] captaincanada84:
First Android phone I had was the original Motorola Droid. I bought it shortly after it was released.
[Android General] topo123:
evo 3d here and still using it.
[Android General] salas2324:
My sister came home one day with an HTC Eris. That was her first and only android. I loved it so much. Then I got a Sanyo Zio I thought i was so cool! Now I have a Huawei Mercury :D and getting a rezound or razr this month

Sent from my M886
[Android General] bigtom624:
My first android phone was the Cliq XT. At the time i got it I didn't know anything about Android, i got it because my Razr broke and i could upgrade to it for free. After a few months with that phone i found out that Motorola was not updating it to Eclair like they promised so i called Tmobile and they let me upgrade to the Samsung Vibrant at no additional cost, which was really cool. Then I discovered XDA and it opened up a whole new world of possibilities for my phone and I have been addicted to flashing roms ever since. I currently own a SGS2.
[Android General] marcusfilipp:
My first Android device was the Sony Xperia NEO MT15i
[Android General] devgee:
Ma first device was the nexus s
[Android General] leventccc:
HTC Hero > Samsung Galaxy S >HTC One X
[Android General] Matze5800:
My first one was the moto defy ;)

After dealing a loooong time with nokias symbian, the real inventors of smartphones, starting with a nokia 7650 ;)

Gesendet von meinem HTC Vision mit Tapatalk 2
[Android General] hsn97:
The HTC Explorer/pico ;D
[Android General] salas2324:
My sisters Eris. Years later (I think) I got a Sanyo ZIO. Bricked in a month. Huawei ascend. Lasted me years (1-2?) Sold it. Then a Huawei Mercury, best phone I thought I had... that's until I got my REAL Android Smartphone the S3 :P

Sent from my Verizon Galaxy S III
[Android General] yousef8824:
The samsung galaxy y
[Android General] Juanito216:
Well iinm I had a short experience with the G1 in a T-Mobile store. Eventually my sister got a Cliq XT, she rooted it with NO help from me(I was on WM and didntvknow Android). I ended up getting a Droid X later.
[Android General] BlackenedUK:
The first Android phone I had was the HTC Desire, got it as soon as it was released in the UK.
[Android General] FrostyF7:
Samsung moment was my first
[Android General] ofteno:
Atrix 4g

Sent from Holy Terra using CM10 by epinter for Atrix
[Android General] XperiaNeoVNoob:
My first android device is Sony Xperia neo v and m still using it.... :p
[Android General] SEVEN40iL:
My 1st Android was the Nexus One.

Then came the Nexus S.

Now I am on the Galaxy Nexus.

Eagerly awaiting the 4th installment ;)
[Android General] Dennelly:
Goold ol Droid 2 I still have it but the screen stopped working :(
[Android General] quaz3:
My first and still only Android Device was a HD2. I bought it knowing I could install several OS on it. I used WinMO a few weeks and was quite happy. Then I tried Android with SD installation. It took me a few hours to decide to kill Win for good. Haven't had any regrets about that decision since :)

Now I was one of the first Android users I know who has Jelly Bean. I will have better phones in the future, but the HD2 is really something special.
[Android General] henryr934:
G1
[Android General] jordanishere:
Samsung admire on metropcs !! The phone ran stock android and I purchaced it 13 months ago... got bitten by the android bug quite badly actually. The other phones I've owned in the last year are an sgs2 from T-Mobile and a gnex from the play store.

Happy with the gnex and I pry won't buy new phone for a while. Best dev support of any phone I've owned.
[Android General] Pre-dawn raid:
HTC Evo 4G. Got it fall of 2010. Actually its been my only Android phone and I'm still using it and don't even have the itch to upgrade yet. This phone does everything I want it to.
[Android General] kramkumar:
I am new to Android. First one is Lenovo Ideaphone S880, bought from China. Android ICS, 5" Screen and good features.
[Android General] ashwinvalento:
Sony Xperia p for me :) :) nothing could be better !!
[Android General] Fire n mage:
My mom had the htc pro 1 and 2 and my uncle had the htc diamond. I did some intense phone studying before Christmas, heard about this new OS called Android, and best part was, I could play gba roms on it :D
[Android General] citybong:
HTC DESIRE HD :)

The best world ;)
[Android General] bostonbassman78:
The droid incredible brought me into the world of android and I will never change android fan for life here
[Android General] Mitch_Faiz_555:
To me, the first and current android phone is GT-I8150 Samsung Galaxy W (Wonder). Although it is a phone that will never have stock Jellybean in the future and will run GB forever, it is "Wonder"ful !!

Since I want to have ICS features on my phone, I did countless tweaks on it and I have bricked it twice.(1st time is editing build.prop mistakenly ,I saved it by flashing stock ROM. 2nd time is CWM flashing failure, I sent it to the service center to fix it)

Now, I have QuickPic as system app , Voice talk(command) , holo launcher and roboto slim(.......a lot more) on it.

Actually I want to replace it with a s3 lte later but I will never ever forget this phone

IT'S THE GALAXY WONDER
[Android General] :
Samsung i5500 Galaxy 5 > Samsung Galaxy i9100 > Samsung Galaxy i9300
[Android General] unk2009:
The G1 baby 2008-2009.. Rooted ( Thank you Jesusfreke, Haykuro and Cyanogen) for paving the way
[Android General] PsycoSkid:
I really don't remember what was my first Android phone... I use to change my phones each 6, 7 months. But I guess it was some Galaxy (GT 551 maybe).

One thing I know for sure... I'm never leaving Android anymore.
[Android General] CharliesTheMan:
The HTC Thunderbolt is what really got me into Android and the world of development and custom smart phone software.

The HTC Tilt and HTC Tilt 2 is what got me hooked on smart phones and customization but it was back in the WinMo days and I didn't get nearly as involved with it as I did when I discovered Android and the Thunderbolt.
[Android General] achyut:
well, i tasted quite a few of them and it is a learning curve for me.

my First was an X10 Mini. and my string goes as...

Xperia X10 mini --> Xperia X10 --> LG Optimus Black (i also had a Lumia 710 with this one) --> Samsung Galaxy S Advance.

not quite up with the current trend, but am happy. :)
[Android General] dreamsforgotten:
Mine was the Samsung moment.
[Android General] hikarugo:
Galaxy S II, the first and the current.

Next will be a nexus.
[Android General] loonz29:
I had an LG Ally, rooted it and tried a rom. That got me hooked, then I traded up and got DROID X, rooted and had a lot of development support. Now I have an HTC Rezound and the new roms and kernels coming out have been awesome!
[Android General] don2012:
Dell streak 5-----galaxy sl----- galaxy s----- galaxy s2-----galaxy note------ galaxy s3 ;/
[Android General] swarimk:
Htc g1 > htc hero > htc hd2 > HTC DESIRE HD > htc one x > samsung galaxy s3
[Android General] kramkumar:
My first Android phone Lenovo Ideaphone S880. Out of curiosity, experimented on firmware now bricked the phone. Don't know how to rectify.
[Android General] addy75:
First phone is / was an htc desire HD.

Waiting and been disappointed about HTC update plans i tried jellytime and now i'm here :cowboy:
[Android General] ProDriver77:
First Android phone was my Epic 4G on Sprint. Now running a Nexus on VZW.

Before that, I was quite a WinMo fan (HTC Touch, Touch Pro, Touch Pro2).

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus on Verizon Wireless
[Android General] NickS_:
First device was the Motorola Droid for Verizon.
[Android General] yamensaleh:
HTC HD2
[Android General] pezlomd:
Htc sensation 4g, galaxy s2 gti9100, tmobile galaxy s3... Ftw android forever.
[Android General] hlbhlb:
LG optimus 2X as the first device.

Previous phone is a Windows Mobile 6.1 phone
[Android General] King_Rat:
Huawei IDEOS U8150 [say that fast 3x] :silly:

-=then=- Motorola Defy... :cowboy:

-=now=- SGS-II :angel:

-=future=- I want a MI-2 :good: