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I rocked a Samsung Alias 2 for 4 years before I got an iPhone 5. The e-ink keyboard was awesome how it changed when you flipped the screen open to portrait or landscape.
Nokia N93
My first smartphone was HTC HD2 which I replaced around 2016 for Pixel, which I still use.
N93 definitely a smartphone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N93?wprov=sfla1
I'd say it was a "smart phone" and not a "smartphone". It, and other Symbian phones like it, existed before the iPhone came out and made touchscreen smart phones a thing. Basically a PDA + Phone.
Even Samsung had a colour touchscreen before iPhone but no one saw it as the first "smartphone". The iPhone was the 'first' true smartphone though you could argue several others before it were smartphones. But I'd class them as "smart phones".
Sony Ericsson w810 -> iPhone 3g.
My First and last iPhone
Nokia n70. Still think about it sometimes, it was a great little phone.
I used Nokia N79. Nokia N series had some amazing phones.
An LG EnV 3. The full keyboard was a must for new!
I had an LG EnV 2!! It was great. Its a very good class of phone.
Some flip-phone from Sprint, though I can't even recall the name now. It had the ability to play text-based games and even snake! I think I was carrying a Palm Pilot near the end of that. It was an upgrade from the first brick I kept in my car for emergencies only. In 2004ish, I upgraded to a Siemens SX66 (Windows-based smartphone) and ditched the Palm Pilot. I continued to use Windows phones (I think I ended with an HTC Hero or something similar), until finally being convinced by borrowing a friend's old iPhone to get one of those. Was on iPhone from 3gs until 6plus. I made the jump to Android when Pixel 6 Pro came out, and that's what I still have today.
How dumb? OG Motoroloa RAZR V3 > Nokia N96 before I had an iOS or Android device.
I'm surprised I haven't seen Sidekick II here. I think that was one of my last ones via T-Mobile before the first LG Android phone came out.
I had this sweet thing, I was the coolest kid on the block I tell ya.
I had an LG VX4500. Loved that phone and still have it sitting somewhere in a drawer today.
I'll charge up old phones from time to time to read old text messages.
Is Nokia 5230 a smartphone? It didn't feel very smart
Don't remember exactly what it was, but I think it was Samsung and was one of the ones where you slid it up to access the keypad. I got it around middle school as a hand-me-down from my dad. I thought it was the absolute coolest thing at the time, despite that was around when my parents were upgrading to smart phones. I'll definitely have to look it up to see what it was.
Edit:
On GSMArena there is 66 pages of different model Samsung phones and plenty that you slid up to access the keypad. Finding the exact model would be like finding a straw of hay in a needle stack, so I'm giving up after 14 pages.
I would argue im still using a dumb phone because it sure aint smart
Fuck yeah, I had the Alias 2 too. Such a cool phone. Then I also switched to an iphone 5.
Nokia 6630
I don't even want a smartphone now. would love a feature flip phone with the capability of being a hotspot. so wish that was a thing.
An LG C1300. I carried that thing for several years. Never had to replace the battery and it would still go 3 days on a charge when I finally switched to an iPhone 3
I went back to a dumb phone. I don't regeret it for one minute.
Curious what do you have now?
An old Alcatel.
My first phone was a smartphone. But a smartphone version of the one in your picture would be awesome.
The last one I had was the original Motorola Razr and it was the second cell phone I ever had. My first phone was actually a smartish phone; my first cell was a Danger Hiptop (Sidekick). It was almost exactly like a modern smartphone; internet connected and used apps. But was around before the iPhone and did not have a touch screen. Only reason it wasn't also my last "dumb" phone was because my original broke long after they stopped selling them. Just to put in perspective how long I had these: my next phone after the Razr and first actual smartphone was a Nexus 4.
I also had the Alias 2. Great phone. Technically I still have it but it is inactivated.
I still have a flip phone. Nokia piece of shit on Verizon. Works well for voice but it's shit for anything else.
I don't think I could say, honestly. My last (and first) dumb phone was a hand-me-down from my mother c2009, and I rarely used it. It spent most of its remaining life in a drawer with its battery removed, only coming out when I was going places where other forms of communication would be scarce. I think I made maybe a dozen calls (and one seriously garbled text message) before grudgingly getting a smart device in 2011.
And yes, my Boomer mother had gone through multiple cell phones before her Millennial son got his first.
Nokia N95 and I'd probably still be using it if I didn't decide it was a great idea to go swimming with my clothes on.
Nokia n95 is a smartphone, not a dumb phone. It has Symbian OS, you can install apps, copy/paste, browse internet. I used to have the 8gb one, it has more capabilities than the first iPhone.
Motorola Razr IIRC. First smartphone was a Samsung Galaxy S.
Owned a whole bunch of Sony / Sony Ericsson phones for about a decade.
Last one before the Xperia for me was the Aino..... Loved that thing.
Is it weird you can still get them?
I don't member the exact model but I had an LG Voyager that i held onto for a long time... I did NOT want to give up my physical keyboard for the touchscreen keyboard so I held out as long as I could. If Samsung came out with a slide-out keyboard for smartphones I'd be on that shit right away.
Landline -> Nokia 6600 -> Sony Ericsson P990i -> Android 2.3 "Gingerbread"
Been on Android ever since
