My first phone was a little LG flip phone, don't even remember what it was called. Got it around the time I entered 9th grade in 2004. It didn't have a camera or anything fancy, and my family didn't even sign up for a text messaging plan, so all I used it for was to make calls, and I was happy with that.
After I lost that one on Alpengeist about a year later, I got a small Motorola flip phone with a camera. Again, I don't remember the model name, but it was pretty rudimentary and the camera quality wasn't great. All the same, I was happy for the minor upgrade, and my family even signed up for a basic text messaging plan, so I could send up to 250 text messages per month! Wowee!
I rolled with that for a couple years until it got crushed when I fell on it during some drunk shenanigans right as my senior year of high school was wrapping up. :roll: As a graduation gift, my parents got me a Samsung Glyde. I was pretty stoked to have a full keyboard, a touch screen, a better camera, an unlimited texting plan, and HTML internet access!
That one served me well for a little over a year, but I started to get fed up with it towards the end as the touch screen's sensitivity began to decline pretty noticeably. Then in summer 2009, I jumped into a pool with the phone still in my pocket, and that was all she wrote for the dear old Glyde.
After that, I wanted to get away from touch screens and their world of potential glitches, so I went with the LG Env3:
I liked it at the time for its small size, full keyboard, HTML internet access, and lack of a touch screen, but I had no idea what I was getting into. This was, far and away, the worst phone model I have ever owned. It worked just fine for a couple months, then the problems began. First, it started turning off randomly while in my pocket, so I'd constantly miss texts and phone calls. This only got worse, to the point where it would shut down in the middle of writing a text or making a call! This was infuriating, so I got a replacement unit from Verizon. This one was even worse than the first.. failing to store any texts or contacts in its memory, and shutting off at the simple push of certain buttons. I sent that piece of crap back and asked my parents about switching models, but since we were locked into a two-year agreement, it would have been kind of expensive to do so. So we asked for a second replacement phone, and lo and behold, we were presented with yet another set of glitches. The internal screen on this one stopped working after about 2 months, then two weeks later, started working again. A little bit later, the earpiece speaker stopped working for good, so for the rest of the time I had the phone, I could only make calls with the speakerphone on. No privacy, but at least the phone worked without shutting off at random times. Despite the downright sh1ttiness of the phone, I managed to ride out the storm until eligible for an upgrade. I've now sworn off getting any LG phone ever again. The fact that this phone was so error-prone and was sold so widely without any apparent test-marketing is an epic fail on their part, and I'd have to think long & hard about buying any LG product, phone or otherwise, in the future.
Anyway, for Christmas last year, I received an iPhone 4S.
Especially given the crap I dealt with from my last phone, I feel like I've finally reached cell phone nirvana. No problems whatsoever with this baby (the Apple touch screens are a far cry from the older Glyde one), and I'm still constantly impressed with how versatile it is. And best of all, I've managed not to break it so far (*knock on wood*), which is lovely considering my not-so-great history of taking care of my phones.
I love early tech that gives you the ability to play with things 
