[HTC Rezound] Antoine.WG:
A string of dumbphones, then:

December 2007: T-Mobile Shadow (HTC Juno), came with WM5, later hacked to WM6. It wasn't a bad first taste of a smartphone, and a ton cheaper than an iPhone. It served my needs for light web browsing, email and music for a year and a half.

July, 2009: iPhone 2G. I bought it used on ebay and jailbroke and unlocked it within 10 minutes of opening the box. 3 days later, I fell over 30 feet off of a cliff into Lake Erie (no joke) and had to go back to the Shadow for a couple of weeks until I replaced the screen/digitizer/top glass assembly. It was OK but a little limited in what I could do with it. Even my Shadow could tether quite easily. After about 6 months, I grew bored of it. I still use it as an iPod occasionally but it needs a new digitizer because a half inch wide band near the bottom of the screen is dead.

February, 2010: Nexus One, CM6. I loved this phone out of the box and even more running Cyanogenmod. It was damn near perfect. The only problem I had with it was with T-Mobile's data service, which was sub-par in my house and at work. I had full 3G outdoors at home and at least had EDGE outside at work or if I put it on the windowsill and I was fine with that but the last straw was a nasty thunderstorm in July that knocked out my cable and internet for 2 days. Most of the time this wouldn't be a problem but I was home for the week recovering from surgery and bored out of my mind. I tried tethering but it couldn't even hold an EDGE connection, dropping to GPRS or disconnecting completely. At that point my contract had been up for a while and the rest of my family had already moved to Verizon. I started shopping for a new phone and ported my number. I eventually, regretfully, sold my N1 on ebay.

August, 2010: Droid X, CM7. Another great phone but a slightly hasty purchase. At the time there was talk that Verizon was going to axe the unlimited data so I jumped on it when it came out rather than waiting for the Incredible or the Galaxy S. Once it was possible, I installed Cyanogenmod. In May this year, the screen started to go bad, leaving about 3" of an inch at the bottom of the screen that goes in and out, sometimes normal, sometimes blank, sometimes garbage. I still use it around the house like a mini tablet, mostly a TiVo remote or bathroom reading material/entertainment.

I also have an original Droid running CM7.2 that my brother gave me after he upgraded to a RAZR in December. Before I upgraded my X, I used it around the house for the same purpose. It's not the fastest little phone but with a few tweaks, the battery lasts for over a week. The X lasts a day with the screen off.

May, 2012: HTC Rezound. Spent weeks agonizing between the Rezound, Galaxy Nexus, and RAZR (Maxx) before going into a store and deciding that the screen and camera were more important to me than thin, battery life or AOSP. I wanted to wait for the Galaxy S3 but I wanted to make sure I kept unlimited data. 2 days after my return period expired, the S3 went on preorder. Still, I have no regrets. With the ICS update dropping any day now and full mods coming in the very near future, I'm loving it even more.