Hello, I'm Gene which is my username in numerics if any are confused.
To start, I was an IT tech, my first smartphone was the AT&T 8525(HTC Tytn) winmo6 with custom roms from XDA, but I was also carrying a Nextel i860 as personal. That was a fun time. Dropped the Nextel because work was paying for AT&T. Then the iPhone came along but I didn't quite like the specs of it just yet so I waited. Kept telling other iPhone owners it wasn't anything special. I got some crap phone because I left my 8525 on roof of car and drove off. haha. Then iPhone 3g came out and I still wasn't impressed, spec wise. Playing around with it wasn't a smooth experience. I then waited with the crap phone til the HTC Fuze(like the name similarity
) came out. WinMo6.5 and about to slam a custom rom in it til BAM the iPhone 3GS was released. I was hooked when I first got it, fast and made ui feel good. I felt "elite" walking around with it first day it came out(no reserve too). Birthday rolled around and got $150 worth of itunes cards and I just bought every useful app i could think of. It was an exciting year. No jailbreak because for what I used it for, didn't need to be. Then after a while of being used to the same old UI and the glamour apps stuck in dozens of folders (300+ apps). It kind of plateaued for me, the iPhone experience. The 4 came out and wasn't impressed (laughed at their antenna issues). My 3GS still kept up with me so why change. During this whole time Android was released, I ignored it because I was a spec whore and all devices out were laughable to me with the 3GS in hand. I knew how customization and open it was but the hardware/feeling didn't fit me when I tried it out in store. Mind you it was less than a minute of trying it out. So I wanted to wait for the iPhone 5/4s just to see. But it dragged on for so long I became impatient. My cousin bought the Motorola Atrix but he had no idea how Android worked or how to customize it, so I used it for an hour figuring it all out. I thought to myself this is like a mix of winmo6.5 and ios to me but more winmo file system with a better UI and ios app structure(each app is it's own module). I felt right at home almost instantly. So from then on I wanted an Android phone but I wanted to wait a bit for something else because AT&T didn't let the Atrix install 3rd party apps. Yes, rooting it would give me that but I just didn't want to on Atrix fearing something better would come. And that it did. I watched this AT&T commercial with the whole spider thing and thought... AT&T blah blah, she screams so loud, that was a weird 4G commercial. It was not until the commercial with the eagle came along that I noticed the PHONE!!! That was like weeks later, I've been tuning out that spider commercial. WTF is wrong with me, I looked it up on AT&T. 4.5" screen?????????????? Holy momma, that was it for me. Went in the next day, never looked back since. Apple can eat me although I do use my 3GS now as an iPod for workouts. That's just a summary of my smartphone life
Apologies to Android and all its glory, I should have known.... :'(
TL;DR~ *reddit lurker for years
AT&T 8525 - winmo6 custom roms from XDA (Schaps if I remember correctly)
HTC Fuze - stock
iPhone3GS - stock
Samsung Infuse 4G - stock but recently rooted. Waiting on CM7 stable release
edit* that crap phone was the Pantech Matrix, what a crappy bump in my smartphone era
To start, I was an IT tech, my first smartphone was the AT&T 8525(HTC Tytn) winmo6 with custom roms from XDA, but I was also carrying a Nextel i860 as personal. That was a fun time. Dropped the Nextel because work was paying for AT&T. Then the iPhone came along but I didn't quite like the specs of it just yet so I waited. Kept telling other iPhone owners it wasn't anything special. I got some crap phone because I left my 8525 on roof of car and drove off. haha. Then iPhone 3g came out and I still wasn't impressed, spec wise. Playing around with it wasn't a smooth experience. I then waited with the crap phone til the HTC Fuze(like the name similarity
) came out. WinMo6.5 and about to slam a custom rom in it til BAM the iPhone 3GS was released. I was hooked when I first got it, fast and made ui feel good. I felt "elite" walking around with it first day it came out(no reserve too). Birthday rolled around and got $150 worth of itunes cards and I just bought every useful app i could think of. It was an exciting year. No jailbreak because for what I used it for, didn't need to be. Then after a while of being used to the same old UI and the glamour apps stuck in dozens of folders (300+ apps). It kind of plateaued for me, the iPhone experience. The 4 came out and wasn't impressed (laughed at their antenna issues). My 3GS still kept up with me so why change. During this whole time Android was released, I ignored it because I was a spec whore and all devices out were laughable to me with the 3GS in hand. I knew how customization and open it was but the hardware/feeling didn't fit me when I tried it out in store. Mind you it was less than a minute of trying it out. So I wanted to wait for the iPhone 5/4s just to see. But it dragged on for so long I became impatient. My cousin bought the Motorola Atrix but he had no idea how Android worked or how to customize it, so I used it for an hour figuring it all out. I thought to myself this is like a mix of winmo6.5 and ios to me but more winmo file system with a better UI and ios app structure(each app is it's own module). I felt right at home almost instantly. So from then on I wanted an Android phone but I wanted to wait a bit for something else because AT&T didn't let the Atrix install 3rd party apps. Yes, rooting it would give me that but I just didn't want to on Atrix fearing something better would come. And that it did. I watched this AT&T commercial with the whole spider thing and thought... AT&T blah blah, she screams so loud, that was a weird 4G commercial. It was not until the commercial with the eagle came along that I noticed the PHONE!!! That was like weeks later, I've been tuning out that spider commercial. WTF is wrong with me, I looked it up on AT&T. 4.5" screen?????????????? Holy momma, that was it for me. Went in the next day, never looked back since. Apple can eat me although I do use my 3GS now as an iPod for workouts. That's just a summary of my smartphone lifeApologies to Android and all its glory, I should have known.... :'(
TL;DR~ *reddit lurker for years
AT&T 8525 - winmo6 custom roms from XDA (Schaps if I remember correctly)
HTC Fuze - stock
iPhone3GS - stock
Samsung Infuse 4G - stock but recently rooted. Waiting on CM7 stable release
edit* that crap phone was the Pantech Matrix, what a crappy bump in my smartphone era
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