Virgin Mobile LG Optimus V. This was in 2011 or 2012. It was a prepaid service and the phone was only $150. It was rooted so I could remove the Virgin Mobile software from the tiny 2Gb(?) storage.

HTC G1, but before that I put Android on my HTC Tilt2 which was a Windows CE phone so not really Android but you could side load it. This was early 2008.

Droid 2, was a hand-me-down from a friend, had mostly used an iPod Touch before then.

Of course immediately rooted and rom'd because I knew about jailbreaking, thing was pretty nifty, especially for GBA emulation with the keyboard

It wasn't a phone but my first device was a €200 Chinese "tablet" running the latest and greatest android honeycomb.

I found it again a while ago, and my current phone has a bigger screen (6.2" v 5.5") but is less than half the size. But the barrel jack or mini usb for charging is something it definitely got right, especially considering the years of micro usb that came afterwards.

I remained a blackberry user for too long. I had a number of them and I wasn't interested in the Apple phone. Then I had a terrible BB Storm which would freeze up all the time.

I called my telco frustrated by the POS. They gave me a $100 credit to go buy a pay and talk android phone (LG something) and wait for a month for the Samsung S2 to come out. Once it arrived I would be sent one. The pay and talk LG blew my blackberry out of the water as it was a full internet experience unlike the BB that was translating all internet experiences to reduce data used on networks that couldn't handle data to start out with.

The S2 was amazing compared to my BB's. I did miss the physical keyboard until I started using Swype. Then I couldn't go back.

I recall minutes being a big revenue generator for telcos, then it became data once the networks could handle it with the iPhone. Now it seems like they are giving away tons of data these days. What's driving revenue now for them I wonder?

Motorola Moto e (1st gen), costed me around $75 in today's price. Ran android 4.4 initially later received an update for android 5 lollipop, came with Snapdragon 200.

Samsung Galaxy S2 was my first proper smartphone. I knew a dude who had one and I was blown away by how cool it was compared to my dumb phone. So I went and bought one for myself. Absolutely loved it.

Typing this on my S21 Ultra. Crazy how far smartphones have come in this past 10-12 years.

Motorola Milestone, sometime in early 2010. So-so battery life and would get hot real easy too. Loved how flexible Android was though.

Galaxy S

I wasn't an android person in the beginning but I always dabbled with it. I daily drived a windows phone until it got stolen in 2017, then I was hoping arround several dying phones that my family had, an s3 mini, an LG v3, an s4 mini. Then in 2019 I got a galaxy a30s and fell in love with one ui, now I'm using an infinix note 12 g96

HTC Desire, can't remember the year but I do rember it was a damn good phone.

I think my first smartphone was the LG Thrill 4G. I remember the upgrade from 2.2 Froyo to Gingerbread 2.3 being a big deal at the time.

I feel like I had to have had one before this. This phone did not come out until I was out of school and I'm pretty sure I had a smartphone during. Looking at pictures of old phones, it may have been the LG Optimus, that one feels familiar.

I imported (to Sweden) a G1 from Germany in 2008. A bunch of experimentation on that and my next Android phone the HTC Desire Z in 2010 eventually helped me land a job as an Android developer.

15 years later I'm kind of sad about where it's all headed. Surveillance and user lock in...

My first android was HTC Evo 3D. Until then I had touch nokia symbian phone so it was quite a jump forward. Evo got off 60% of price within 6 month so I had to update. It was a hell of a deal. Lasted me for 4 years. Then I went for Somy Xperia Z1 compact.

Galaxy Note.

I’d had the Nokia N900 previously and the huge screen size of a “phablet” sounded unique and cool.

Galaxy s2, after being on an iPhone 3gs, Apple made it increasingly more difficult to jailbreak at the time I did not want to get stuck in their ecosystem so I bailed and never looked back.

Galaxy Ace in 2017. It could, very well, do absolutely nothing at that time ever since the Android Market and GMS for Gingerbread were shut off and all the apks I can sideload are discontinued and outdated versions, some of which absolutely not working.

2010. It was a motorola devour and it was basically a droid with different externals. I loved it. I owned the droid two and three after that. Miss slide out keyboards quite a lot actually.

My 1st android device would be 2nd hand xperia x10, i remembered installing cyanogenmod 7 on it and learning about rooting through it