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'My First Phone': CNET editors look back on their first phones

2017-12-04
ya see so it's like do the Fonzie thing this wasn't my first phone but it was like the second or third phone I got and it's my favorite phone in the world I got it in college and it was the Nokia 73-70 my first friend was the Motorola talk about T 180 yo yeah look at this baby oh yeah I only just realized this is called candy vadas ein I had no idea that that's what this brain was called so this is the Kyocera qcp 6035 this was my first phone and one of the first smartphones of the United States my first phone was this teeny tiny Samsung and I think it was an s GH s 300 before you had fancy names for your phone's armor walking to the store thinking man does RadioShack really cellphones doesn't make any sense when I told the guy was interested in a phone I mean he his eyes lit up I was very I was like fit 16 so I didn't decide anything so I think this was like my parents saying you need a phone so this is the phone you're getting I did not buy my phone my parents bought it for me I think I decided on this phone because it was cool I could do the cool flip thing lit up I think I was in a t-mobile store and this was my very first smartphone I held out for a really long time getting any kind of cell phone but this thing I was so excited about cuz it was the first Google phone the first Android phone back then the fact that I could get this in five different colors was pretty amazing and because there were known cases this was sort of your personality right it was the color that you chose so I had friends who do theater and apparently they had this exact model and legend had it that they were able to use this phone with in store inside an elevator and the basement of a casinos my favorite part of the phone is the fact that it puts so many phone charms on it um like this one actually wiped the screen but you know come on like you can't talk to an Asian girl about her phone during her teenage years without phone charms coming up it's got the whole Palm Pilot thing going on where there's a built-in handwriting system so you can do handwriting right on the phone itself one feature snake that's all that mattered back then was snake my favorite thing about this phone was the Android operating system the fact that I could use it to get you know a whole bunch of different apps on the store at the time the the the store was kind of the Wild West you could get emulators for games for example of course being able to browse the internet and text and everything on this thing you could program your contacts using your voice I just went into this weird voice for all of my contacts so I'd have to go call mom my favorite features maybe a feature but it's like part of it has like this antenna that comes out it was like so satisfying my favorite feature about this phone was that it had a like an indicator light on the back of it and you could flip it upside down like this and it would like blink green to say hey you're important man and everyone else around could see that the worst thing about it was the battery life I remember at the time I would seem to die in the middle of the day when I was using it a lot so what I did was I bought this special battery case extension on it so he just slapped this new battery on the back of the phone and actually made it even thicker and more difficult to carry but it was totally worth it for the extra battery life it didn't like that my parents could call me on it that was the worst feature of the phone this antenna would just fell off after a couple months and for awhile I just wrap it in tape I put it in my pocket and would just get stuck in my pocket cuz it was just covered in gross ratty tape I guess I could say the only thing I don't like about it was that I don't know it's just perfect oh yeah this thing had a camera in it and at the time it was great you know it seemed like it took really good pictures you know it but you know now looking at phones it's ridiculous that you can't even see anything and the screen itself has really low resolutions oh no camera man man I'm surprised it even had like sound this phone had a 1.3 megapixel camera as you can see very advanced and there was like a little bubble here for this selfie guess it gives you like some modicum idea of where your face is oh well you don't about this phone because it doesn't even have a camera if I could switch back to this phone and not lose my job I would do it in a heartbeat because it's tiny it's not too complicated I could text under my desk like oh well I have to silence it of course they missed us how like kind of indestructible was it's just pure plastic and fit drop the battery came out and they need this pop the battery back in just the nostalgia factor is the coolest thing about this thing and you know back then it's really simple you know that's one difference it might be better it's just it's really simple to have what I like about this phone compared to the phones of today is I just like that it's really small I wasn't constantly thinking about it and thinking that I should just have to be absorbing information on my phone at all times it was a phone and I liked it for that purpose and served me well even if you flip it over you soon ridiculous so that's like clicking like noises sonar this was my ringtone this is holy my ringtone so my ringtone was ringtone 26 I guess it's like the Beatles like number 9 but welcome 26
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