I have this really good bad idea of comparing said phone to the ipod touch 2g and seeing which one aged worse.
Most of what I searched for brought up modern phones or lists from that time of all the top of the line phones.
At that time there genuinely weren't a lot of more budget-minded Android phones. It was all just to shoot out of everyone trying to make a phone. For the first couple years most of the competition was like all the manufacturers just throwing random models and form factors at the wall, using the same two processors as those were the only processors for that year. So it's mostly weird little HTC phones versus whatever nine different phone Samsung was launching this month versus the current Droid du jour vs some weird slider shit from pantech.
It was very common for manufacturers to launch numerous different devices on different carriers with different form factors, but for all of the underlying hardware hiding behind the screen to be exactly the same thing. For example, in 2010 and 2011, Samsung released over a dozen different models of the Galaxy S, all with different names, different designs, and different feature sets, despite each and every one of these being the same phone under the hood. Same processor, same ram, same motherboard. They did the same thing with the S II.
The Galaxy S3 was basically the first time that a manufacturer other than Apple decided to just make all of their flagship phone units for one year just be the same phone. That's why everyone still remembers exactly what that phone looks like, but would no longer be able to pick out an S1 or S2 from a lineup, likely even if it was one that they owned at that time.
pretty sure this was my first smart phone https://phonesdata.com/en/smartphones/htc/vivid-466/
i got a galaxy s4 a year or two later and felt like i had a real competitor to an iphone
Yeah, im expecting a shitfest.
My polaroid pmid 4311 is one of those “microtablets” from 2013. Dear god you basically CANNOT browser the internet on that thing. For non internet stuff like old mobile phone games it works decently well.
My first smartphone was the HTC Droid Eris in 2009. I don't think there were a lot of options for android phones at the time, at least in the US. At Verizon, for android phones, I had the choice between the Motorola Droid, or the Eris, which is what I ended up with, and it was definitely the budget option between the two lol
Oh, I have a motorola droid! Now if only it didn’t do that android battery thing...
My issue with the Eris was that it was part of the last generation of phones with a trackball, and they put it right over the charging port. So as you can probably imagine, after a few years of clicking the trackball multiple times a day, it eventually got to the point where it wouldn't charge well anymore lol. But yeah that and the Motorola Droid would be great contenders for 2009 android phones, from what I can tell the Droid was the 6th android phone to be released in the US, and the Eris was the 7th, with the Eris being for sure the cheaper of the two. I also found this article if it would be helpful, it's just a list of early android phones sorted by release date.
This was the first major Android device: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Dream
