A decade in phones
Or nearly a decade in phones, as this is missing the two most recent phones:
I had the Vodafone from 2009, so started the decade with that. The little joystick thing was good, but otherwise it was an annoying phone after 3 Nokias with physical keypads. The two HTCs were better.
The Fairphone 1 was shortlived and aged rapidly (at least with my level of app usage); I was delighted to replace it with the Fairphone 2, which weathered changes in Android much better. I did have a second FP2 handset, after the first one hit early adopter bugs and needed to go back for debugging. Overall it was nearly 4 years before I changed phone again.
My FP2 is not shown, as it went back for refurbishment; I now have a Fairphone 3, which is a really excellent piece of hardware, recommended. We'll see if it lasts the seven years Fairphone hope to support it for!
All these phones had/have very similar user interfaces - a portrait rectangle screen you poke at (or swipe, these days), icons, apps, a camera, more or less awkward ways to input text. The biggest change in the decade is really my shift to fairly traded, repairable hardware.
(Picture because these are all off for recycling/reuse today... The FP1 rather late to this; I'd thought I might pass this on to someone, but the opportunity didn't arise.)
I had the Vodafone from 2009, so started the decade with that. The little joystick thing was good, but otherwise it was an annoying phone after 3 Nokias with physical keypads. The two HTCs were better.
The Fairphone 1 was shortlived and aged rapidly (at least with my level of app usage); I was delighted to replace it with the Fairphone 2, which weathered changes in Android much better. I did have a second FP2 handset, after the first one hit early adopter bugs and needed to go back for debugging. Overall it was nearly 4 years before I changed phone again.
My FP2 is not shown, as it went back for refurbishment; I now have a Fairphone 3, which is a really excellent piece of hardware, recommended. We'll see if it lasts the seven years Fairphone hope to support it for!
All these phones had/have very similar user interfaces - a portrait rectangle screen you poke at (or swipe, these days), icons, apps, a camera, more or less awkward ways to input text. The biggest change in the decade is really my shift to fairly traded, repairable hardware.
(Picture because these are all off for recycling/reuse today... The FP1 rather late to this; I'd thought I might pass this on to someone, but the opportunity didn't arise.)