What was Your First Android Device?

[Windroid]

What was your first Android device?

I'll start: My first Android device was a Kindle Fire (2nd Gen. or so), not long after Amazon first brought out the Kindle Fire line. The screen was small, not much bigger than my modern iPhone's screen. It didn't have a good desktop: Finding and launching apps could be a pain, and shutting down apps was even more of a pain. But there was one thing it was good at: Letting me buy and read e-books! I have a soft spot for that little blue tablet.

Now, don't let this scare you off from buying a modern Kindle Fire. The Kindle Fire has come a long way from the days of 2nd Gen.; you'll be able to launch and shut down apps just fine on a modern Kindle Fire tablet!

 

[Dannydet]

Mine was the LG VX9200 (Verizon) Messenger .
I don't think it was Android yet.
I know the ZTE grand x max from 2015 was my first android smartphone.

 

[olbriar]

HTC Droid Eris.

 

[Clementine_3]

Moto Droid

 

[nickdalzell]

My introduction to Android was with a Coby Kyros MID7015. all of 1 core, 256MB of RAM, a resistive touch screen, and Android 2.1

Let's just say it was not the welcome intro I expected. I think the only app that actually worked was YouTube. Well, that one worked for a year then support died for that version of the app and it was too outdated out of the box to update the app.

 

[Windroid]

@nickdalzell My introduction to Android was also not the most welcome (see my first post). I guess that's why it took me a decade to see Android as a serious computer system, and not just an e-reader.

 

[nickdalzell]

I took me getting over years of Apple bias (I was very fond of and used to iOS 6) and getting a proper, flagship product instead of a bottom of the barrel $50 device at Kmart to realize that.

Fun fact: The Kyros, while it had a version of Aldiko installed, couldn't even do ebooks right. The app was broken out the gate and kept crashing. The app store, called Appslib, claimed it didn't support my country on launch so I had to sideload the few remaining apps that worked with 2.1, which there weren't many. That's how I discovered Dolphin Mini which I still use today, as the tablet's built-in browser couldn't even load Google (and it was stuck in Chinese)

 

[ocnbrze]

htc hero

i miss the trackball.....it was so cool to use.

 

[iBowToAndroid]

Good ol' OG Moto Droid

 

[Milo Williamson]

First gen of a moto razar cell.
I kind of remember using a ton of my mobile data to talk with everyone on fb using the app hahahaa No regrets.
Second one was a LG chocolate Touch, third one was a moto z two turbo.
Four and final form is a Moto edge plus.

 

[Milo Williamson]

First gen of a moto razar cell.
I kind of remember using a ton of my mobile data to talk with everyone on fb using the app hahahaa No regrets.
Second one was a LG chocolate Touch, third one was a moto z two turbo.
Four and final form is a Moto edge plus.

Second one was also a Samsung Galaxy s3. Seriously troubles with that device up to the end.

 

[cwcheese]

Motorola Droid, and I got an HTC Droid Eris for my wife
I got these after my Treo 650 was dead ended by Palm going down the tubes and needed to move on, though I still miss it

 

[nickdalzell]

I still miss that Sense UI. Ain't no phone since that has anything nearly as dazzling. Imagine what we could have had if we kept it going into the era of HD and 2K resolution displays?

 

[mikedt]

Samsung Galaxy S, within a few days of purchase I'd rooted it and installed Cyanogenmod. Previously I'd been using a Nokia e71 and Apple iPhone(jailbroken).

 

[KarmaHunter]

Come on, I can't be the only one that my first Android was a HTC Google G1 (HTC Dream) (the very first Android phone). Came with Android 1.6 (Donut) and rooted to install Froyo 2.2 (currently installed)

But what it is more amazing is that I decided to get the second battery (I think they were giving them free for some reason I can't remember) and as of today, still turns on and works fine with the first original battery!!!

 

[Clementine_3]

Come on, I can't be the only one that my first Android was a HTC Google G1 (HTC Dream) (the very first Android phone).

I wanted that so bad but Verizon was the only service that really worked on my area then so I had to wait for the OG Moto Droid.

 

[Hadron]

HTC Desire - the original model, codename Bravo, rather than any of the later models to bear that name.

Complete with the little optical trackpad in the button (sort of fun but not hard to see why they didn't continue with that), android 2.1 (upgradable to 2.3) and a whole 147MB of internal storage for apps!

Root was obligatory if you wanted this to be much use. There was a thriving device forum here, with a number of us supporting people who tried to root and mod this phone - up to and including editing the bootloader to repartition the internal storage (if you dispensed with HTC's Sense environment you could shrink the system partition and get the data one over 300 MB ). The same hardware, with a trackball rather than the optical trackpad, was sold as the Nexus One (the first and last Nexus phone to have a removable storage card).

Mine was a first revision device with an AMOLED screen: later versions used LCDs after Samsung decided that they couldn't (or, people suspected, wouldn't) supply sufficient screens to their rival. It's still in a drawer, with a modified version of a compact 2.3 AOSP ROM on it, but there's really not much you can do with it now. Pretty good device for the time, but the miniscule storage was a big mistake even back then (this phone was about the last gasp for the original Android model of tiny internal storage and hope that removable cards can make up for the limitations).

 

[teddyearp]

Motorola Sholes, AKA A855 OG Droid. Bought on release day. Rooted just as soon as the method was found. My my my, the memories. alldroid.org, sholes.info, all those other sites that have now gone bye bye. Hell, I used to have some of the first guides out there compiled and used to host a million different ROM's on my server because I got tired of all the fly by night sites.

 

[JFin15]

Samsung galaxy (#1)

 

[harsh74]

one plus

 

[BrickHouse]

HTC Hero
After needing to (temporarily) downgrade to the dreadful Hackberry (Blackberry) from my Palm Treo 680. Did things on that phone that couldn't be done on Android until around 2018.

 

[The_Chief]

I was first in line, waiting for the Verizon store to open on November 6, 2009 - and the first one to buy a Motorola Droid. By mid-December it was rooted with Pete's Bugless Beast custom ROM installed.

 

[Clementine_3]

I was first in line

I was ninth!

 

[OhioGuy59]

Mine was the HTC Evo 4G. I think I got it in 2010 or '11. I actually still have it and it still powers up but I don't use it anymore.

 

[Croc]

My first Android device, and smartphone in general, was the HTC Incredible 2. I bought it the summer I graduated high school in 2010, right when smartphones were starting to go mainstream.