What's Your Smartphone Lineage?
Kwitko
Sheriff of Banning (Retired)By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
As I quietly put my OnePlus One to sleep for the night, I couldn't help but think of all the great smartphones I have had over the years. Starting with the Motorola Q, I've had the following:
Motorola Q
iPhone 3G
HTC Hero
HTC EVO 4G
Samsung Galaxy SII
Samsung Galaxy S4
Google Nexus 5
OnePlus One
What's your lineage?
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T-Mobile G1
T-Mobile G2
HTC One S
Sony Xperia Z1S
HTC HD2 (Leo)
Samsung Galaxy Nexus (Maguro) (Currently in use as a GPS/map in my car)
Current: Samsung Galaxy Note 3.
iPhone
iPhone 3GS
Moto Droid
Galaxy Nexus
iPhone 5s
Samsung Exibit II
Iphone 4s
Galaxy S5
HTC TyTn (Windows Mobile)
iPhone 3G
Samsung Captivate (Galaxy S)
Samsung Skyrocket (Galaxy S2)
Samsung Galaxy Note 3
Motorola V300
Motorola Razr V3
Palm Pre
Samsung Epic
Samsung Galaxy S
Samsung Galaxy Nexus
Samsung Galaxy S3
Samsung Galaxy S5
The Palm Pre was still my favorite phone of all the ones I've had. I was sad when Palm OS didn't take off as it was better in many ways to Android at the time. I still do have my HP touchpad rocking WebOS though.
BlackBerry Bold
Galaxy Nexus
Nexus 4
OnePlus One
iPhone 4
iPhone 5
Blackberry Storm (oh god why)
HTC Thunderbolt (two for two!)
Samsung Galaxy S4 (honestly not so bad)
HTC Espresso
HTC Doubleshot
Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4g
See a trend?
Keyboards.
And here I was trying to figure out what the Galaxy S Relay had to do with coffee.
Blackberry Curve
Motorola Droid OG
Galaxy Nexus
OnePlus One
HTC Inspire
Nexus 4
Nexus 5
Droid
Galaxy S2
HTC One
Got it in one. It's too bad nobody is interested in my business anymore.
I still my my BB Curve's keyboard
Such a fantastic device - some sort of blended android/palm keyboard hybrid would be the bee's knees.
INQ Chat 3G
INQ Cloud Touch
Blackberry Curve
Nexus 4
Nexus 5
I had the cloud touch for the longest time and went back to it after I got annoyed with the curve...and after the N4 got stolen...It still works years later despite a cracked screen... and being eons behind current tech.
Still living in the dark ages. This is the most advanced phone I've ever owned.
Previously this.
Image is only 1/2 the actual size of the phone.
Blackberry Curve 8300
Blackberry Bold 9700
iPhone 4
There's talk of Google releasing its own phone OS, but I think that's just Internet rumor.
Forgot to mention my Motorola Q, which I had before I switched to the iPhone.
Oh dear.
HTC TyTN II
HTC Touch Pro2
HTC Hero
HTC Nexus One
HTC Desire
HTC Desire Z
Samsung Galaxy Nexus
Samsung Nexus 4
LG Nexus 5
HTC used to make such great phones... -sigh-
I feel like I must have had a phone between the DZ and the GNex, but I'll be darned if I can remember it. Given my lineage, I find it unlikely I stuck with the DZ for over a year, but maybe so.
Lessee:
HTC Touch/Elf (WinMo)
Samsung Moment
Samsung Fascinate
Samsung Droid Charge
Samsung Galaxy S III
MotoX
So far, the X is far and away the best of these phones in all aspects. I'll probably move up to the new X soon.
T-Mobile G1
T-Mobile G2
Samsung Note 2
Currently deciding between messing with my Note 2's ROM some more or getting a Note 4. Wish there were more stylusphone options.
Any phone will work with a stylus.
Not note-style (wacom digitizer)
T-Mobile G1
Nexus One
Galaxy Nexus
Nexus 4
Nexus 5
WHUT.
Including the S-pen? I thought there was special hardware mojo involved with making that work. All the styluses I've seen that are universally compatible are the big eraser tipped looking things that seem like they would offer no precision benefit over just using your finger.
See my response.
The note-style stylus requires the wacom add-on to the digitizer. But any capacitive stylus will work on any phone these days.
@AlexDeGruven is correct. The digitizer layer in the Note series is pressure sensitive. But I'm suspicious that people make use of that pressure sensitivity as the use cases are oddly specific for a phone. In the event my supposition is correct, then any ol' capacitive stylus will do.
Nokia 7600 (I count it dammit)
ZTE Blade
Samsung Galaxy Note
Debating the pricey Note 3 or a cheap and cheerful 5" Moto G for my next device (my Note is not so slowly dying).
The Note's s-pen uses electo-magnetic resonance witchcraft so it really doesn't compare with a generic capacitive stylus (doesn't have to touch the screen to interact with the device, has a button which functions as an alt key, etc).