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I'm not going to highlight all the phones I've ever owned, quite a few were second-hand and didn't last long.
But I WILL use this opportunity to wax nostalgically over my old Sony Xperia Z3 Compact. It was tiny, the battery lasted for two days easily, water proof and it was bright orange/red.
It was the perfect phone for me and I've never seen anything like it again. Sure it was slower and the resolution was nothing spectacular, but it did everything I wanted and it was so easy to carry with me.

Highlights:

• First phone: One of the mid-90's Motorola MicroTAC's
• First smart phone: Moto Droid
• Current phone: Samsung S10+
• Favorite phone: LG Envy 2

• several cheap phones from Motorola, Sagem, Samsung, etc. (I couldn't afford a Nokia 3310)
• some no-name feature phone
• some Chinese 60€ smartphone
• Samsung Galaxy J5 (used)
• Samsung Galaxy J2 (got it for free)
• Gigaset GX290
• Unihertz Atom

I've never spent more than 150€ on a phone. If you debloat them and use open source apps, you really don't need many "features" or much CPU-power/memory/storage.
And I don't think I've ever a used a different browser than Fennec, cause that's what pops up if you search for Firefox on F-Droid.

• Some kind of black and white Motorola
• A cheap color Nokia phone
• A (I think) Motorola camera phone
• Palm One Treo 650
• Samsung E1150
• Wileyfox Swift
• Motorola G5S Plus
• Pixel 4a

I only have fuzzy memories of the first couple phones. I got into the smartphone game pretty late in 2016 (unless you count the Palm, which I bought used and which broke very quickly). Actually my main motivation for getting a smartphone was to play Pokemon Go.

As for browsers: Only got mobile internet with the Wileyfox. Used Chrome on that, switched to Firefox at some point when I had the Motorola.

My first phone as a teen was an LG Voyager. Then I switched to my first smartphone which was a Motorola Droid. After the phone slowed down significantly I switch to an HTC One, and once that gave me similar issues I switch to an iPhone 5 which I loved. Then I replaced it with an iPhone 7, X, and now I’m on an iPhone 13 PM. I used to always use Firefox when available, but I’ve stuck with Safari ever since I switch to the iPhone.

Dunno why this got downvoted, it's a great question:

Nokia 3310 - legendary, got stolen

Moto Timeport 7382i

Sony CMD J70 - dial operation menu

Sony Ericsson T610 - joystick got fluff jammed.

LG Viewty - mediocre iPhone imitation but great slow motion vids 120fps

Blackberry Curve 8520 - batteries heat and swell when browsing!All the apps were shit, and no games. ... but the physical qwerty keyboard was divine though - fastest I have ever typed AND accurately!

iPhone 4S - solid

Samsung (not sure which) too small

Moto G7 Power - 4 years still sweet.

Gotta love old Firefox on any platform, never lets me down

I got a mobile phone because somebody gave me one. I can understand the price I paid for it after discovering all of the annoyances. OH the LUXURY!

WHY anyone puts up with the terrible hardware compromises, the terribly designed UIs, the shit software, the crappy audio, the constant charging, the security threats, the unregulated demands on our time, etc. etc. is beyond me.

I use one roughly once a week, ONLY because I found a really cheap plan. But then, I never needed to talk to someone while I was walking down the street - and if I just had to (never), there were public phones everywhere. A dime for unlimited local calls. No fear of dropping a phone booth. Or accidentally leaving the phone booth at the bar. And they had doors - so you could hear yourself think. Or change into your costume.

I suppose that back when beaverskin hats and buckboards were trendy, everyone just knew they had to have one. But oh, the price we're paying.

I'll go from when I got my first smartphone

Palm Pre RIP

HTC Inspire 4G

HTC One X

Nexus 4

Nexus 5

iPhone 5S: my wanting my phone to "just work" years

iPhone 6

iPhone 6S Plus

iPhone 7 Plus

Blu R1 HD my crappy transitional phone back into android

Pixel XL

Pixel 3XL

Pixel 6 Pro

Chrome was used on almost all of them except now where I'm using Firefox

1. Nokia 5150 - My first phone. It featured swappable faceplates, great games like snake, and 1 week of battery life.

2. Motorola V710 - Flip phone complete with crude internet browsing and GPS.

3. LG G2x - My first real smart phone, running Android 2.3.

4. Samsung Galaxy S4 - A significant upgrade, running Android 4 eventually upgrading to Android 5.

5. OnePlus 2

6. OnePlus 3T

7. OnePlus 7T - I have been using this for 4 years now. I think it's finally time for an update.

8. OnePlus 12?

Nexus 5 Nexus 6p Pixel 2 Galaxy something or other for a week pixel 3 pixel 5 pixel 6 pro

• Flip phone
• HTC Legend
• Galaxy Nexus
• HTC One M8
• Nexus 5
• Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (boy that one sucked)
• HTC One M8 (same device, just finally got S-OFF on it to use it with my carrier despite "incompatibility")
• Galaxy S7
• OnePlus 8T

• Nokia 1112 (moved on from Tracphone)
• LG Chocolate (stopped working outright)
• Sony Xperia XA1(eventually lost it)
• Sony Xperia XA2 Ultra (voLTE compatibility)
• OnePlus 8 (current)

I try to make my phones last as long as possible. I get about five years out of each phone. Hoping to make the OP8 last longer, as it has 5G and voLTE and that is the only reason I had to get rid of the XA2. Otherwise I was fine with the XA2 other than the fact that it didn't get service anymore.

I use Fennec as my mobile web browser, if that is what you are asking.

• Siemens C10
• Siemens C35i
• SonyEricsson S700
• Nokia 6320 Classic
• iPhone 3G
• iPhone 4
• iPhone 5S
• iPhone 6S
• iPhone X
• iPhone 13 Pro