My first phone was the Nokia banana phone, the one that was shaped like a banana, had a slider to reveal the callpad and, I think, featured in The Matrix. I love that it was one of the coolest phone back then and people turned to look at it and asked me about it. I did not have the need nor money to jump on a Blackberry, so my next favourite phone was the iPhone 4. So slim, so functional and so fast! What dethroned the iPhone 4 was the iPhone XS because of Face ID and the new gesture interface - swipe from bottom for home screen. These two features were so mind-blowingly awesome back then. Now, my favourite is the iPhone Air because it’s so impossibly light and fast and beautiful.
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I have one in a drawer somewhere. so cool for the time.
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My favourites:
- iPhone 13 mini I am still using
- iPhone 5s (my first iPhone)
- Sony Xperia S (my first smartphone, love the appearance and its OS UI but the software experience was horrible)
It’s not my favorite, but I still like my first phone, a tiny T-Mobile branded phone that I could completely enclose in my fist. Not smart, had a tiny keypad, but it synced with Apple’s calendar and contacts.
iPhone X was the ideal form factor for me. I wish there were still iPhones that size
If Windows phone had survived, I would still have one. But Microsoft doesn’t know how to persist with anything sigh
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My favorite phone isn’t the “Google Pixel” hardware, but the GrapheneOS software. It’s very minimalist and open source.
At the end of 2020, my two-year-old Google Pixel suddenly died. I replaced it with an iPhone 12, which I’m still using today. It’s now essential to my daily routine—serving as my car key, bank access, and more.
If it ever suffers the same fate as my Pixel, I’m not worried; my iCloud backup is always ready, making it easy to restore everything onto a new device. Plus, it integrates beautifully with the rest of our Apple ecosystem. Being able to copy something on my Mac or iPad and instantly paste it onto my iPhone is seamless. I’m one happy user!
Got my first Blackberry in 2006 and was awed by the design and function. I remember being an early adapter on my campus and that my handle on some of the tech message boards was crackbarian.
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Palm Treo
Best mobile keyboard ever
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I agree! I had the Palm Treo with the stylist, then moved to Blackberry.
My Nokia N95 
Also my first smart-ish phone, HTC Dream.
There’s a pattern there somewhere.
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My current iPhone 13 Pro! I have only had four mobile phones since 2000, my first being a Philips Savvy 
. Kept my iPhone 6S for six years and then bought this one. The camera is excellent and the stainless steel body is very comfortable to hold.
I feel like a failed forum user here. I had a Blackberry once. It was fine. I’ve had a bunch of iPhones and a Google Pixel once.
They were all fine.
But I truly don’t recall the differences in respective models. My screens have gotten bigger and better over time. That’s good. Cameras have improved. That’s also nice. I guess they were all different sizes and form factors. Honestly, I can’t remember which version was what and whether it made a difference to me or not.
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Yes, and no.
I wonder how many people actually bought a second battery which by it’s nature was proprietary.
Especially in this day and age (where swappable batteries are rarely a thing on small tech) that portable batteries are generally available and USB C is a standard now. Plus you get better water proofing, less mechanical failure when the battery clip stops holding the battery in, and devices are thinner and lighter.
Battery removal was the ultimate troubleshooting solution 
You will be happy with the iPhone Air then. The difference in weight and size is very obvious and noticeable.
And the built-in battery on iPhones tends to last all day. The Treo would drain pretty quick if you were using it to make quite a few phone calls. My iPhone 16e definitely lasts longer with heavy cellular use than my Treo ever did.
With the Treo, I bought an extra battery - but it was an “extended” battery. It even came with a different battery door since the new battery was physically bigger.
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Nope, it’s the difference between someone who has the Golf R32, and someone who has a car that carries them to work reliably on a daily basis.
For some people things are tools, and for other’s they’re something they pay a lot of time and attention to.
Neither’s wrong.
But then there are those of us who have bizarrely weird memories. I could still remember IP addresses from my first IT job (back when IP addresses were important), 10 years later. Facts stick in my head for no particular reason. but it makes me pretty good in a pub quiz.
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Nextel i1000.
My first cellphone, bought when I left corporate job to go independent.
Loved that it could have two different phone numbers, one for work, one for personal.
Unique feature of having both cellular and actual radio/paging network. Sprint later simulated the radio network with a PTT (push to talk) feature when they bought Nextel but that wasn’t the same thing.
It had some limited texing and email - I had a 3rd party tiny folding keyboard for it with a proprietary connector that the phone would sit in so I could type text while at Starbucks.