The Danger Hiptop. Wow, I'd pretty much forgotten about that but it was probably the first phone I owned that I would consider a smartphone. Unfortunately I got

The Danger Hiptop. Wow, I'd pretty much forgotten about that but it was probably the first phone I owned that I would consider a smartphone. Unfortunately I got it primarily for (very) basic web browsing and the area I was in at the time was fairly spotty on data coverage. Eventually I upgraded to a Treo 650 on Sprint which was a little better, but it really wasn't until the iPhone 3g that I was happy with a smartphone's mobile browsing capabilities. (But that was the last time I purchased an iPhone: I lost $hundreds when it got bricked and Apple said the moisture sensor was triggered so they wouldn't replace it. It never came close to getting wet, and I later got a minor settlement through a class action because the sensors were faulty, meaning anyone in the unfortunate coincidence of a broken phone still under warranty & a faulty triggered sensor got screwed.)