My relationships with mobile phones, and smartphones has been a somewhat strange one. From my pre-teen, pre-internet years I remember poring through the Argos catalogue comparing the phones they had for sale. As a youngster I didn’t have access to money outside of a trivial weekly pocket money allowance, so this never really amounted to much.
However as I grew older and my disposable income increased this strange desire to keep switching and changing smartphones grew too. I’ve never been able to really get to the bottom of the reason why over the years I’ve bought and sold so many smartphones. For a while I kept swapping cars, but I grew out of that and reached the point that as long as my car is functional I’m perfectly happy with it. Other areas of my life don’t match this behaviour either. I keep my computing devices and other tech items for as long as they’re functional, I don’t obsess over clothing, only really buying more when I need to replace something. It’s just a strange fascination with phones.
This all reached a breaking point a few weeks ago, when I was caving in to the itch of changing phones merely a month after just changing devices. Fortunately this has never cost me much money because I always resold the other device and often purchased them 2nd hand in the first place. In fact I would hazard a guess, this has only cost me the equivalent of what the average person spends on their phone contract each month. However the constant setting up, and potentially losing data, and worrying about resale value was wearing thin on me and I decided to make a change for the better and break the cycle.
Regardless of the above I do still have a passion for mobile phones of all shapes and sizes, and have decided to start a series documenting each of the phones I’ve owned over the years. Below is a list of those devices, in the best chronological order I can remember and I plan on making a post on each of these. These posts won’t be in-depth technical reviews, more an overview of the device and my thoughts about the device at that point in time and how it fit into my life.
- Nokia 3210
- Nokia 3200
- Sony Ericsson W300i
- Samsung Chat 335
- Nokia X3-02
- Samsung Tocco Lite
- Samsung Galaxy Y
- Samsung Galaxy S3
- HTC One M8
- iPhone 6
- iPhone 6s
- iPhone 7 Plus
- iPhone SE
- Xiaomi Redmi Note 4X
- Samsung Note 9
- Google Pixel 4
- iPhone Se 2nd
- Motorola G8 Power
- Samsung M51
- Nokia 105
- Pixel 3a
- iPhone 13
- Nokia G11
- Pixel 6a
- Samsung S23 Ultra
- Pixel 7a
- Samsung A14
- iPhone 15 Pro
- Nokia 110 4G
- AGM M7
- Unihertz Jelly Star
- Pixel 8
- Samsung S24 Ultra
- Samsung A55
- Samsung S24
- CMF Phone 1
- Oppo Find x8 Pro
- HMD Pulse
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