Trigger warning: extreme nostalgia
Below is a picture of my first smartphone. It was the HTC 7 Trophy T8686. It was my originally my dad's first smartphone that he got when he needed an email capable phone for work back in 2011. In early 2013 my mom inherited it. Then in 2015, a cat threw this phone of a balcony sending it into a 2 meter fall. The glass cracked and there are almost invisible marks on the display (only slightly visible on white screens). Then after it got fixed I inherited it as a reward for doing well on my high school entrance exam. Since it was too fragile (middle point of the right side of replacement screen glass seems to not have perfectly adhered but everywhere else did) and a teensy bit or the replacement digitizer at the very top of screen isn't working, I used it as a camera and music player and never took it to school. Then in 2016 I got my first Android phone (my second Android device after my 2012 tablet) and the rest is history.
Now you may be wondering what I'm doing bragging about a first gen Windows Phone here on Android central. Well, this thing is very special to me as it has the very first Qualcomm Snapdragon, the QSD8250 which also was the first smartphone SoC to hit 1GHz (technically 998MHz but whatever). This is the exact same chip that powered the original Nexus One and the eternally venerable 2009 HTC HD2 (the most hackable mobile device in tech history, capable of running Android 1.6 to 7.1 along with many other operating systems).
Below is a picture of my first smartphone. It was the HTC 7 Trophy T8686. It was my originally my dad's first smartphone that he got when he needed an email capable phone for work back in 2011. In early 2013 my mom inherited it. Then in 2015, a cat threw this phone of a balcony sending it into a 2 meter fall. The glass cracked and there are almost invisible marks on the display (only slightly visible on white screens). Then after it got fixed I inherited it as a reward for doing well on my high school entrance exam. Since it was too fragile (middle point of the right side of replacement screen glass seems to not have perfectly adhered but everywhere else did) and a teensy bit or the replacement digitizer at the very top of screen isn't working, I used it as a camera and music player and never took it to school. Then in 2016 I got my first Android phone (my second Android device after my 2012 tablet) and the rest is history.
Now you may be wondering what I'm doing bragging about a first gen Windows Phone here on Android central. Well, this thing is very special to me as it has the very first Qualcomm Snapdragon, the QSD8250 which also was the first smartphone SoC to hit 1GHz (technically 998MHz but whatever). This is the exact same chip that powered the original Nexus One and the eternally venerable 2009 HTC HD2 (the most hackable mobile device in tech history, capable of running Android 1.6 to 7.1 along with many other operating systems).
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