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What were you using before the Driod?

What phone were you using before the Droid?

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I've had cell phones since '96 or '97, started out w/Sprint and had all sorts of Moto's and Samsungs with a Kyocera mixed in (all pre-flip. lol). I dumped Sprint after a few years because their service (cell and customer) went down the tubes and went to Verizon. I've had a ton of phones with them too (mostly Samsung or Moto flips) but my most recent was the MotoRizr (the tv one). That was/is a rock solid phone but I wanted the world at my fingertips, not just a phone. I tried the Samsung Rogue for a few weeks and liked it but wanted even more options so reactivated my Moto and waited, rather impatiently, for the Droid.
Lovin' my DROID :)
 
my first smartphone was the HTC Mogul with Sprint back in october 2007 a windows mobile phone
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then in december 2008 i switched t mobile for the HTC G1
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then on november 6 2009 i switched to Verizon for the Motorola Droid yay
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iPhone 3G here. Wanted to get away from AT&T more than anything, but I am becoming increasingly frustrated with Apple's business practices.
 
Samsung i760 WinMo 6.1 on VZ. Used to be the best VZ had to offer (paid $350 for it!!).

Effing goodbye WinMo. You're dead to me.
 
I grew to loathe Windows Mobile on this phone.

I came thisclose to using my new every two benefits on an HTC Imagio (they were out of the Touch Pro at the time). I talked myself out of it after playing with the phone for a looong time at the store. No slide out keyboard (a necessity for me) and WinMo 6.5 had no better functionality than 6.1.

My patience was well rewarded with my Droid. :D
 
Alltel HTC 6800. Pretty good phone WHEN IT WORKED. I'm thrilled to be rid of WinMo. Microsoft shouldn't even bother with the phone market. By the time they make a slow, buggy attempt at an Android 2.0 copy, Google will be shipping 3.0. I'm not cynical or anything.
 
I had an LG Voyager which I bought about 4 months before the Storm1 came out. I was really ticked off at myself. I got it cause I really wanted a touch screen and I wanted to avoid the iPhone. I didn't pay close enough attention and got the Voyager.

It was not even a casual competitor to the iPhone.

Now I have my Droid, and I am finally 100% satisfied with my choice.
 
iPhone 3g - battery life stinks, the new updates have really slowed the phone down to a crawl, and ATT coverage is just brutal.
 
First I used to have the LG Voyager in Titanium (best QWERTY keyboard I ever had) and then an LG enV Touch (faster than the previous one, but no better keyboard).

There's my confession. :o
 
1st Gen iPhone with T-Mobile service. Loved it but hated not having 3G, plus battery started to die quickly after having it for a year and a half. Switched to Verizon for the Tour. It was cool but went back to T-Mobile to wait for the Storm2. Storm2 was great for a Blackberry in my opinion. Had it from the day it released until November 6th. Switched to the Droid as soon as I messed around with it in the store. Love it!
 
Samsung i760

Bought it for the Wi-Fi capabilities. Bought it off eBay and when I took it into Verizon to have it activated they said that a data plan was required. I told them, no it wasn't because I didn't have one for my Motorola Q or Palm Treo 650 (Gotta love being a poor college student). They said they wouldn't activate it so i simply went to Circuit City and had the Verizon people over there activate it.
 
What did you do to get all the stuff from your Palm PC program to the Droid? i.e. Memos, contacts, to do list, calendar, documents.
 
toysfun --

I looked into this (being a former Palm user myself) and decided there is NO easy way to do this -- if you search this forum and other forums as well you'll find various methods posted but all of them seemed to require some degree of computer sophistication and/or patience ... and all of them required you to still do a bunch of "clean-up" work on Google calendar, Google contacts, etc. - some stuff transfers right and some doesn't.

Personally, I decided not to transfer my OLDER Palm calendar entries, so I've started afresh with Google Calendar on my desktop and Droid.. I am simply inputting my contacts anew into Google Contacts/Gmail ... and in doing so I'm omitting a lot of folks I actually don't need to have there...

As to memos and to-do lists and other elements of Palm, I'd be surprised if there were a simple way to sync those as such.
 
I'm coming from a long line of HTC WinMo phones on AT&T.

From whatever the old flip WinMo phone from HTC was to the 8525 to the Tilt to the Fuze (TouchPro). I'd been an AT&T customer for just over 10 years - largely because every time I left them they bought or were bought by whoever I went to.

When the Droid came out I was debating the iPhone, TouchPro2, Droid, and Eris.

I spent a month driving my girlfriend crazy, while she went and did the sane thing and got a Droid. 1 week later, Droid in my pocket and AT&T no longer providing service. Number of dropped calls in the past week: 0.
 
Had an LG Dare for a year then got the HTC Imagio. Sent the Imagio back before the 30 days were up and got my Droid, not looking back:)
 
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