See - I knew I wasn't done.
My first Android phone was the HTC Hero on Sprint. Anyone ever rock the Hero? The European version had much cooler hardware design than ours. And back then stock Android was pretty lame, so HTC got major credit for their overlay skin called HTC Sense. It greatly improved stock Android at the time.
Even though Android was well behind iPhone at that time, I could immediately see with my Hero that Android was the future. I ended up returning that thing not due to the phone but because I hate Sprint's network quality. Switched over to Verizon with Droid shortly thereafter and have never left.
HTC Hero - Sprint
Motorola Droid - Verizon (rooted the phuuuu out of that thing, had so much fun learning how to overclock etc but lack of RAM really held it back over time)
Motorola Droid 2 Global - Verizon (nice boost in keyboard and RAM, but I believe a little more locked down on the hacking front)
Blackberry Bold - Verizon (for work - yuck - RIM stock was still worth a lot back then but I knew it would go to 0. Wish I had had money to short their asses)
Samsung Galaxy Nexus - Verizon (curved screen, stock android, hell yeah)
HTC One M8 - Verizon (front facing speakers, aluminum body, dot matrix flip cover, hell yeah, eventually bricked itself)
LG Nexus 5X - Verizon (first mid range phone that gave me the warm and fuzzies, eventually bricked itself)
Google Pixel - Verizon (best phone on the planet, still love it to death after 1.5 years, hasn't slowed down a bit, great battery life still, and functionally a near laptop replacement for me at work)
iPhones have never interested me. Their operating system is too annoying to use after living in Android forever. Notifications are putrid. Lack of back button kills me. Everyone copied multi tasking from the original Palm Pre anyway...
Which brings me to my one big regret. Never owning a Palm Pre. So I figure now is probably my last chance to actually use and enjoy one before it's too late.