Phone Ownership History

I was thinking about how far I've come in owning cell phones and ended up pretty amazed at the evolutionary pattern. This only came about from recently giving away my Nokia E70-2 to a good friend of mine since it had spent nearly a year in the closet collecting dust.

It all started back in 2002 when my partner thought it best that remained in touch while on the road. Before this I didn't have any friends let alone a steady relationship, so the home and office phone were enough to keep me connected to the outside world. All of that had changed the first time I had walked into a Verizon store and was clueless to all the devices and phone plans that lay before me. I remember feeling like it was Christmas when I got my first phone, a small green-screen LG model that was BASIC. I can recall getting all excited because I had four contacts to choose from and could call them anytime I wanted to...jeez I really needed to get out more! That moment had officially exposed me to a whole new world of tech toys, but I was not yet addicted. For a good while I went about my life like any other American who took the cell phone for granted and never realized its true potential.
It was not until I got my first music phone through Cingular that everything began to change. This was when I was first hired to work for Apple Computer and this phone was a Sony Ericsson W810i.

I thought I would take the time to draw up a listing of my cell phone ownership history from 2002 to the present.

Verizon
• LG VX4100
nTelos
• Motorola V60i
• Motorola v260
• Nokia 6255i (my first Nokia with which I discovered bluetooth transfers with my Mac)
Verizon
• LG VX8100
• Motorola RAZR V3c
• Motorola E815 (first phone to sync with my Mac)
• Samsung A950
Cingular (before it changed back to AT&T)
• Sony Ericsson W810i
• Blackberry Pearl
• Palm Treo 680
• Nokia E62 (my first writing phone on which I did extensive word processing for poetry and blog entries)
• Motorola KRZR
• Nokia E70 (my first unlocked phone...and this is where the smartphone addiction started)
• Sony Ericsson p990i (the most unstable phone)
• HTC TyTN
• Nokia N93
• Nokia N95
• Nokia E61i
• Sony Ericsson M600i
Out of all these devices I would have to say that the Nokia E61i, N93 and Sony Ericsson p990i were the most useful in different ways. Word processing, music playback and PDA apps were great strengths for the E61i and p990i while the N93 excelled in video and picture imaging. The N95 was intriguing but for the amount of money paid I was not impressed...not to say that I wouldn't consider getting that as a permanent backup to my E90.