Smartphone Brands & Smartphone OS rise and decline

#1

These video beautifully plots the rise and decline of various smartphone brands and Smartphone OS

What was / is your favorite mobile brand and OS ?

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#2

Hey @Shenoy

I still think the best mobile I had was the BlackBerry Bold, in its day it was a powerhouse.

Today it’s Apple all the way for me and has been since 2012.

What do you tap on?

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#3

My first ever mobile phone was. NEC P100 on the analogue BT Cellnet network.

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#4

Nokia was my first phone, and loves it for the time I used it…

It’s Apple now with iPhone and iOS

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#5

My wife,daughter and son got a XIAOMI.

I have none! You might not believe! :rofl:
May be I would need when someone of my neanderthalean tribe buddies has detected a mammoth!
But I, an old retired Neanderthaler have to stay in the cave here and keep the fire burning!!! :joy:

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#6

I started on a big chunky Alcatel! Pre smartphones I loved my Siemens clamshell phone. Now I’m with Huawei but I did like my Windows phone (guessing that won’t be popular here!) but prefer the tile layout to Android. Much tidier/easier/quicker to navigate between apps.

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#7

My first ever phone was a LG flip phone lol

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#8

Windows phone?
Never heard of it :joy:

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#9

I always wanted a Blackberry but never got one :sob:

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#10

You missed out!
The qwerty keyboard on the Bold was the best input interface I’ve used on a phone.

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#11

@Chiquinho high time you get a phone :rofl: I am sure you may have a landline

@star100x I never got to use a Alcatel phone… believe there are still of these but with Android

@ikari04warrior I still have a flip dumb phone with AT&T which I keep as a backup in my car … never know these battery hogging Smartphones die

@paulstevenewing I used the Nokia E71 with Querty keyboard and still have it in my collection, best phone Nokia ever created, sleak, fast!

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#12

I had a Symbian phone back in college… I didn’t realize how popular it once was! I hated it! :rofl:

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#13

I’m an iPhone guy. I started out on Android with the HTC Incredible and by the time that phone had outlived its usefulness, I was over the lower-end Android phones and made the switch. I’d be more than willing to get a Pixel next, but all of my music is stored & organized in iTunes (I’m a PC user, so they haven’t killed that off for me yet) and that’s the main thing keeping me with Apple.

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#14

That’s why I mostly wanted one, the qwerty keyboard

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#15

It would be a torture to have to use a flip phone in modern times lol

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#16

Good old t9 days… use to think that was fast texting. The days of the flip phone.

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#17

@TechnicallyWell which Nokia phone was it?

@Mark_Dunsmore glad to know one more Apple Fanboy :grin:

@ikari04warrior it’s only a backup phone, the battery standby is like 15-16 days :wink:

@chrisjwaggoner I do miss the T9 days but swipes are better on touch screen :innocent:

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#18

Of course I have.
Otherwise we Neanderthaler use drums and smoke signals, depending on the weather! :joy:

Different signals :
:drum::drum: (Mammoth)
:drum::drum::drum: (Cave bear)

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#19

It was the Nokia 3650. It looks hideous by today’s standards, but at the time I kind of liked the retro keypad (although, it was terrible for texting).

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#20

First phone cheap motorola that I did not like to use since that would mean people can locate me.
First smartphone HTC evo. Loved the phone heated Sprint service.
Current iPhone X iOS with no intention of upgrading unless a phone company comes up with a great promotion(that’s the only reason I got the X)

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