What Were You Using Before the iPhone?
Inspired by Gruber, who was rocking the Nokia freebiephone, on the eve of the original iPhone's 2nd birthday, we want to know:
What were you using before the iPhone?
(I was on a Treo 680 that crashed almost as often as it successfully made or received calls).
Update: Jeremy reminds me we have a huge thread on the TiPb Forums about this as well. Love. Up.
Editor-in-Chief of iMore, Executive Producer at Mobile Nations, co-host of Iterate and ZEN and TECH, cook, grappler, photon wrangler.
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Samsung Juke.
It was a big attention getter with the bitches.
Treo 650 HTC Mogul iPhone 3G iPhone 3Gs
I was using the Sony Ericsson Z710i.
I didn't even have a smart phone. I had a Sony Ericcson s710a. Neat little phone, best thing about it though was the LED "flash." Made for an excellent flashlight.
I had a k790 Sony Ericsson, and now i miss his camera!
Samsung Stripe! Haha it was a joke of a phone. Ah good times
The T-Mobile Shadow (Ran off Windows mobile).
Piece of garbage.
Treo 750. Upgraded from the ultra crappy and thousand year old Palm OS of the 700p, tho WinMo 6 wasn't much better.
Taking my iPhone with me to the grave...
blackberry curve havent looked back
RAZRs and KRZRs.
Had Email, Web browsing, MMS, SMS, Music, and a ok camera.
Had No Apps, no speed, no smarts, no class.
Nokia 3650!! Pretty old
No smartphone/mediaphone for me...LG PM325 on Sprint. I had to wait until November for my contract to end though, so wasn't an early adopter. Still using the original iPhone and loving the 3.0 Os upgrade, feels like a new phone with the new features.
Motorola Razr2 v9. Good phone, but nothing like the iPhone!
Telus branded HTC Iris. AKA the s640. Nice WinMo 6.0 smartphone. Had lots of flaws tho'. Happy to be on iPhone 3GS now !
A WHITE T-MOBLE G1 PHONE
I was using a Treo 680 (had same problems as you) and I also had the problem that it would never sync correctly with MissingSync!
Blackberry Pearl
It made me cry every day to two...
Blackberry Curve 8800
To be honest...I don't remember. I had the original iPhone, then iPhone 3G, and now it's iPhone 3GS.
Samsung Blackjack (winmo 5.1)
Treo 680
I had a prepaid AT&T phone that was over 10 years old, then I switched to T-Mobile and got the Sidekick 3 in 07 then later cancelled and went on Verizon. I had a cheap ass Razr phone ha afterwards I had the LG Dare in 08 for like two weeks then I returned it and purchased the iPhone 3G back in September. I didn't have to pay a cancellation fee because my contract was just about up anyway.
Was rocking the iPhone 3G and the Blackberry Bold. I still use the Bold as well as the iPhone 3GS. I need my Crackberry fix as well as my iPhone fix.
Sanyo 8400... rock solid midp2 phone
The Helio Ocean.... don't call it a phone
I was using 2 tin cans connected by a string. My reception is better now that I use an iphone, but I have more dropped calls...ty AT&T ;-p
Orange C600, Orange M2000 and the T-Mobile Vario 2....
Like any technology it was good at the time. But Microsoft just wasted their position - msmobile seems to be run by tech heads, yes you can send an email but with a stylus????
Verizon LG Dare & My wife used Verizon EnV2.
I had a Moto Q, BlackBerry 8830, BlackBerry Curve and then the BlackBerry Storm... iPhone is the best one yet...
My bad, Pre-iPhone was the horrible extremely buggy Windows Mobile Motorola Q
Samsung BlackJack II, and before that a Blackjack.
Blackjack (WinMo 6.0) - now have iPhone 3G
I was using a Sony Ericsson P1i - the amount of times I hacked it to make it look like an iPhone was unbelievable lol.
I was on a BlackBerry 8300, loved the phone, but it was starting to be dated (sad age we live in, I know).
I switched mainly because I got a good deal on the iPhone, I could have lived with the BlackBerry.
Helio Ocean!! She was a good little phone.
I had a Blackberry Curve 8320. I must admit I miss it sometimes, but I do love my iphone. No going back for me!
Motorola RAZR V3i on Cingular. Lost it on the side of a highway while keeling over puking my guts out. Went and bought an 8GB 2G iPhone the next day!
A long line of Windows Mobile devices....glad I have moved away from the platform. Casio EM-500, Casio E-200, HP Jornada 568, IPAQ 1910,IPAQ 4150,Ipaq 2750, Imate K-Jam,Treo 750,HTC Touch Cruise,US HTC Touch Diamond
Treo 700p and a Treo 650p before that. And I waited an extra 2 years for Palm to give me a significantly improved Palm product running a Palm OS. But they failed miserably and my wife I went over to the iPhone, leaving Verizon along the way.
The original Samsung Blackjack & a Palm Treo 750. Now after having an iPhone & a 3g I don't think I could stand to go back to a Window's Mobile phone! Their way to complicated!
Blackberry 8100 Pearl...and haven't missed it once!
I had the blackberry curve 8330 with verizon, and i switched to the iphone 3gS I havent been able to put the damn thing down
samsung blackjack 2 on cingular/at&t. nice enough hardware, but man winmo sucks. a lot. before that, a moto razr x3xx on cingular.
Went from a Treo 300 to the 600 the 650 to the 700p then dumped Sprint for ATT and a Blackberry Curve. It is now iPhone forever.
I had a Treo 700p that was buggy as hell, then got the AT&T Tilt as a stopgap until the 3G came out.
Treo 750p. That thing seems like such a piece of junk after iPhone!
I had an old Blackberry (don't even know the model number). Piece of crap. I haven't looked back since.
I do wonder what I did before the apps came aboard. I can't imagine living without them.
I was using a Blackberry 8830 on Sprint before I migrated to the iPhone. Now that I've been with the iPhone since the 2g, I can't even imagine going back to any other device. I feel pain just thinking about having to use any other phone. Not to mention that Sprint is a nightmare of a carrier where I live. I won't give up my 3gs for anything but the next the next iPhone.
Nokia e90 communicator, too many features but also too s l o w. 1min for the email app to load!
Curve 8300
A Mio A701 Windows Mobile powered pocket pc. As a phone was just complete rubbish when compared to the iPhone 3G.
Was on a Nokia N82 feels so cheap and plastic compared to my iPhone!
Blue Blackberry Pearl. They only thing I really miss is the color!
I had the storm prior to the Iphone. Wanted to switch for a while but was worried about AT&T's network. I've been nothing but amazed. I'll never go back to another phone again and AT&T is great where I live.
Blackberry Curve. I bought the 3G last year and 2 weeks ago bought the 3GS. I have a Blackberry Bold as well. I am ditching the Bold and have finally decided the iPhone 3GS does everything I need it to (work and personal). Oh, I just bought an external battery pack. Lovely. I haven't cracked open my ThinkPad laptop in months.
A BlackBerry Curve
Treo 700p. Worst POS ever. They promised a maintenance update for 1 year and when it came out, it bricked my Treo. What a joke of a company! I would never use a Palm Pre even if you gave it, $200 cash, and a stripper too.
Well, perhaps I'll take the stripper actually....
I had the Samsung Blackjack II which I thought was a pretty cool phone - when it worked. I pretty much used it for calls, texting and the occasional email correspondence. Now I have the iPhone 3G and I can do everythin on it while away from the office or even on the golf course. I'll never own another Windows Mobile device!
Treo 750 (650 before that). I was a Palm girl from way back...good God though, how I ever put up with that tiny screen reading web pages (not that many displayed) or ebooks, I'll never know!
Almost forgot the name of it! haha. Verizon's 6700, by UTStarcom. Wife and I each went through two of them (all off ebay) waiting for something thin with wifi and a decent keyboard. Don't care about the keyboard anymore. Wife loves the iPhone too.
TytN II
Treo 650. Constant resets, phone quality was very poor. Have never looked back.
Motorola Razr then Treo 650 (for a hot minute..it was defective and returned) to iPhone 2G. Feeling 3G[s] in a few short weeks...
First I had the Sierra wireless flip qwerty phone until I cracked the screen. I then "upgraded" to the killer Palm Treo 680. The thing was alright for the keyboard but it crashed like crazy and the UI was garbage.
Where would we be if Apple didn't release the iPhone? Still using junky devices with a horrible interface?
No matter what way you look at it Apple has changed the game, and still to this day nothing compares to the iPhones simplistic interface!
LG Vu then a month later it was the Samsung Eternity.
6 months later, iPhone 3GS!
I didn't have a smartphone but it was the M1 by sanyo..... Garbage compare to the iPhone.......
Free phone that came when you sign up for AT&T......no competition
Think I had a Nokia 6230. Could never go back.
I was never a big fan of fancy phones... My instincts always told me that you'd get better quality with single function devices.
At one time I was sporting a palm pilot, a cell phone, and an iPodbin some very heavy cargo pants.
Most recently my phones were the Razr and then an LG Chocolate, both with Verizon.
I guess that shows how impressive the iPhone is that I would go against my instincts and ditch my other devices in favor of a bunch of empty pockets.
Blackberry 8800...haven't really looked back one bit since they unleashed t-mobile unlock
i was on a free flip phone from motorola on nextel and a cheap tracfone before that back in like 2003-ish...iPhone was a HUGE upgrade to me lol
Sony Ericsson p910a. With no keyboard. The software keyboard wasn't very good but prepared me for the iPhone. Now I rock a 3Gs.
I didn't even have a smartphone. I had a Motorola flip phone. It was a piece of junk. I couldn't wait to get rid of it.
Blackberry 8600 series.
i had a Sony Ericsson W600i
I was a big sidekick fan.
Crappy Tmobile Samsung phone,blue MOTO Pebble, HTC Dash, HTC Wing, HTC Shadow, the made the switch to ATT and got the original iPhone,then got the iPhone 3G, now waiting for my 3G to sell so i can buy a 3GS!!! =)
Treo 700p
I had an AT&T Blackberry Curve
car phone
Longtime Treo user (650, then 700p), then switched to a Blackberry 8830 (all on Verizon), then to an iPhone.
Sony Ericsson W810i. Best non-smartphone cell phone I had ever used up to that point. Now, reeling in disappointment that I won't be able to upgrade from my 3G without paying the early upgrade price for another year
I was rocking a Nokia 8800 Sirocco before switching to the iPhone 2G. Moved from that to the 3G. As tempting as it is to upgrade to the 3GS, I think I'm gonna give it a miss and get the Palm Pre (Lol, Yeah right! Like I'd ever give up my iPhone for that.) Nah, I'll wait for the iPhone 4G.
LG chocolate 2 to iPhone 3G. it was like going from a geo metro to a corvette. =]
I was using a Nokia 6126, that phone was a trooper! It survived a dip in Hawaiian punch, its my back up phone in case any thing happens to my iPhone 3G.
Came from a LONG line of Motorola phones. The last one before my iPhone was the pink RAZR. LOVE my 3g iPhone. Will never go back.
Blackberry Storm...Don't get one!!
Cingular 8525 (HTC TyTN II), running WinMo 5 and 6. It worked ok, at least for the first 11 months, but then began having problems keeping a charge while talking. Junked it for a 3G last July. WinMo is total crap.
I'm a bit behind the times. My last phone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_DynaTAC
A crappy ol Moto Q.
Motorola KRZR. Thing sucked. But it had MMS... But I wouldn't trade my iPhone for the world! LOVE IT!
Nokia 6102i, it was my first camera phone I didn't even know what a smartphone was. Know I can't put my iPhone down. I still have my silver back no upgrade yet.
I was on a Treo 650 that was given to me, for a while..but the screen had som deep scratches in it so I talked myself into a Treo 750, which I used up until I got my iphone.. I will stick with this until somthing better comes out.. but I find it hard to believe that anything better will come out.. I've never been happier with a phone than I am with my iPhone
I was using the last of a long series of Palm products, a Palm Centro on Sprint. The difference is unbelievable. If stolen, I would buy another iPhone immediately.
Nokia e65
Cingular's 8125 Pocket PC
The Treo 750. WinMob. Never again!
Blackberry Curve
Motorola razr v3 on Verizon.God did i hate that phone. Kisses iPhone 3GS
I had a RAZR. it was a decent phone. Then noticed the iPhone and started saving up for it. By the time I had like 300 dollars they came out with the 3g. which was a lot cheaper so I got it and gave the old phone to my dad (who broke it a couple days after).