foxpaw

I started in the early 90s with a Casio -- basically a glorified address book. But, it got me hooked on the possibilities that an electronic organizer.....later to be called a "pocket pc".....could provide.

For the rest of the 90s, I tried a couple of different Palms....but found them limiting and frustrating. They just seemed to generate more ideas in my head about what these gadget could REALLY do! But could NOT do it....yet!

In 2002 I dipped my toes in to the symbian world with Sony P800. It was certainly a vast step forward! But the phone part of it had reception "issues" on AT&T's/Cingular/AT&T's network. Eventually they "terminated" my connection.

So....two years ago I took the plunge and bought my, now, beloved Cingular 8525. Finally, a PPC that could do most of the things I had dreamt about! It's not only my organizer (calendar, contacts, lists, etc.), but has become loaded with games, gps utilities (paired with a Freedom Keychain GPS), and Mobipocket ebooks. It has truly become a "constant companion" -- eminently useful, helpful and liberating. (Especially now with AT&T's 3G network.....surfing the net is getting to be a whole lot easier from a mobile device.)

But, I yearn for more storage space (2 GBs now....16 sure sounds nice, though!), more power, better graphics and a cleaner interface. I just ended my two-year contract with AT&T and am serioudly looking to upgrade to the HTC Fuze....soon. If only the bank account would allow it! (YIKES!!!)

Thanks for reading all this!

Happy New Year!

nsnsc03

I started off with a Palm IIIxe. t had a whopping 8mb of memory. It was fast but was very into crashing. From there i moved on to a Sony Clie SJ33, mine was blue. It was one of the best i ever owned. I am still disappointed that Sony dropped out of the palm/ppc market. I got a keyboard for it and took notes on it in school for 2 years. It used the palm for power and didn't require batteries, much better then bluetooth or ir.
Finally, I made the plunge to a ppc when one of my documents failed to save. I went straight to the top and got a dell axim x51v. Best out there. I ended up getting a bluetooth keyboard that is not the greatest but it does the job. This past year i upgraded to wm6.1 and now it is faster then ever. Hopefully dell will surprise us :-)

mlh1962

My first PDA was a Palm m125, then switched to the Toshiba E310 (really liked the size and feel) but then it was time to converge. I bought the first one offered by T-Mobile the HP h6315, I'm now using the HTC Wizard a great device but showing its age.

otter

My history starts off with the Palm IIIc color-screen PDA back in about 1999.
I used that all the time for some of the first text Ebooks that were available on the net.

I later had a Mitsubishi phone that had some basic web surfing capability around 2000. It has more capability than my current barebones RAZR.

Next was a Dell Axim X3(?). The one that had Wifi, but I couldn't take it to work, so I got rid of it.

I've been out of the portable PCs for a while, so hopefully a Fuze is in my future. It looks really exciting. I just hope I don't ignore my home PC once I get my hands on one.

auramae

I got hooked with the Newton, but ever since the first Treo (which I purchased direct from Handspring to use with Sprint) I was all about convergence.

I will always choose a touchscreen (resistive, not capacitive, because I am a girl with fingernails!) and I have been with Windows Mobile for years (when they still called them Pocket PCs.)

I left Sprint years ago because they never had anyone at tech support who knew as much about my smartphone as I did and I left Verizon because they took too stinking long to bring a new device to market (I had a Samsung i730 for what seemed like a lifetime!)

I ended up at AT&T (then Cingular) so that I could buy any phone I liked and not be enslaved to my carrier to bring me the phone of my dreams. My first open market phone was the HTC Trinity and I decided I wanted a bigger screen, so I switched to an HTC Advantage.

Like everyone else, I lust over the Touch HD, but I am not willing to sacrifice my US HSDPA frequency. I am waiting for CES to see if HTC has something new and exciting for me.

Please, HTC? I've been very good this year!

arwinger

I had an old palm pilot, but barely used it because it was just 1 more thing to carry.

I currently have a HTC Tilt. In theory it is the perfect phone, but I think mine is possessed. The ringer changes between on/vibrate/off by itself. Web pages take 5 mins to load on 3G network. It rarely sync's e-mail by itself, and once it even read an e-mail to me even though it was sitting on my desk not being touched, and the room was silent.

So.....I'd be way excited with a new phone. I'd love to win.

wigsajumper

Phone
Some Verizon POS
then Cheap Candybar for Cingular
Then the KRZR
Now the Blackjack2 Wine Love it

PDA when straight to the dell x51v
Love it

KipDynamite

to start off my experience with a pda I have to credit the wonderful world of hand-me-downs.
My sister had recently upgraded to a Palm V and needed to do away with her original Palm Pilot. I of course, was more than happy to help her relieve herself of such a heavy burden of having 2 pda's.
Upon entering the world of the "PDA" I was hooked.

I now have to credit my next pick due my discovery of Aximsite.com. which persuaded me to chose the Axim X5 as one my first windows mobile devices.
Wanting the cool screen rotation, I then splurged to get the new Axim X50V. running the still loved, 2003 SE.

I then upgraded with the help of Aximsite.com once again to the Axim x51V though the Dell warranty claim procedure so nicely spelled out in the aximsite forum. Thanks you again Aximsite.

Looking so hard into getting a converged device I was so very close to buying one of my own until i notice an aximsite contest while browsing aximsite on my axim at At&t park during the Giant's all-star game. The contest was to submit a picture of our mobile device while being mobile. So I quickly ripped out my camera, took a wonderful picture of my X51V, swapped the Compact flash card, and uploaded the pic directly on my axim to aximsite which won me the Mio A701!

I used that Mio exclusively for over a year and finally last summer I get the At&t Tilt (Kaiser) and love it. I still haven't retired my Mio as it serves as my emergency phone and dedicated GPS in my car since the cold fix on that device is still second to none.

Skorpyo

My history started in 1999 with a Compaq Aero 1500 it could play MP3s and was really just a task / calendar manager. I upgraded to a Compaq H3600 for the color screen. Eventually I bought a Dell Axim X5 and followed that up with an X50v.

I got tired of carrying a PDA and a phone and upgraded to an Eten X500+ since it offered a VGA screen and was one of the few phones that did. It lasted just shy of a year before I upgraded to an M800 begrudgingly since I really wanted a Touch Pro, but couldn't justify the $1,000 price tag. Of course winning a Fuze would be even better!

I still have the Aero 1500 laying around along with the X5, the X50v was sold and the X500+ is broken. I currently cook ROMs for the M800.

Skorpyo

digitaldon37

My History:

IPAQ RX1955 (broke screen)
IPAQ RX1955 (now using as a MP3 player)
AT&T Tilt

lulugirl896

I break my PDA usage into 2 categories: Palm and WM.
My first pda was the original Handspring Visor (remember it had all the funky handspring modules?) I went through almost all the various Visors, then to the 180 which was the flip model and the first one to incorporate a phone. Next was the Trep 600 and the 650.
Then I switched to Windows Mobile. I used an Axim x3 in conjunction with my Treo 650 to learn the OS properly. My first WM converged device was the HTC Wizard. I had a Universal for a while, but it just wasn't practical! I sometimes miss the simplicity and innocence of my Palm days, but after Windows Mobile there's just no going back.

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T-Mobile Treo 600--> Cingular Treo 650--> Cingular 8125--> Imate JasJar--> TMobile SDA--> Cingular Blackjack --> Cingular 8525-->UBiQUiO 503g

egiblock

PDA:
Palm IV
then Handspring Visor (from Gateway Computer).

SmartPhone:
Treo 650
then Treo 680
then Treo 750
then AT&T Tilt
then and Currently Blackjack 2 personal and Blackberry Bold for Work.

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jazye19

well my cell phone herstory is very short. it all started my first year of high school. as i grew into a woman my mother took me in her arms and said. "my beuatiful young lady, you are a wonderful daughter and i am so proud of you for what you are doing. And to show my appreciation i would like to give you this."
She lifted her arm, and in her hand was the most beautiful wonderful present of all. a cell phone, it was huge and fat but oh my favorite color blue. the screen was small but oh those keys those keys on which i could dail, they were big and silver. oh how wonderful i thought to my self a cellphone of my own it was the oldest fattest nokia i have ever seen but it was all mines and for the first time in my life i did not have to sit in the kitchen to talk to my friends. This phone lasted for a really long time and as the joy of having a cellphone stayed fresh my want to have a razor began.

Sad to say i never got that razor but instead kept my little old nokia untill the screen went dead and i could no longer hear who was calling. then i recieved a new phone, it was an average sized flip phone, silver all over a samsung it was. it had not front display of which i wanted badly but hey this would do. at least i could now hear the caller and they could hear me. i had this phone for 1 year until my need to have a phone with a QWERTY keypad became so overwhelming i could not think. Then i went onto ebay and purschased a nokia like my first, but this nokia was different it would flip open and reveal my precious QWERTY keypad. all the joy i recieved from this phone and all the text message i sent and recieved. but one day this phone was left in the rain and its heart (battery) stopped working forever. during my sadness over the loss of my best friend i was forced to go back to the all silver samsung. until the time came when i could upgrade and upgrade i did. So little old jazye upgraded to a another samsung sgh-c417, with this phone i could trick out the front putting my name their i could take pictures and change the front screen. joy joy joy. But now my need and want is back oh what i would give for a pda i would so love to have the Att tilt, i have been reading and looking at reviews for months no years wishing praying hope that one day my phone histroy could have att tilt in it.

thank you for reading my story have a great day
Jas.

crazaa19

I have no history with smartphones. I have never owned one but I like to keep myself updated with the technology that comes with them. I really hope that this will be my first!!

yee015

Well... my history? I don't consider me having one because my first phone and current one is the att Tilt. It's alright but pretty slow. I can't afford a new smart phone at all and the Tilt is just getting rather too slow and outdated. I plan to stick to the tilt for a while until I get something better which won't be for a long time. I also lost the usb to the tilt which pretty makes it useless since I don't even have internet on my plan. Well I hope to put my tilt in the history section if I can obtain that HTC fuze.