For me it wasn't a phone at all. It was my first PDA running PPC 2002. Together with a Stowaway keyboard (like the one used in Alias) and a network card in the card slot, it was practically a netbook, in addition to being the best mp3 player at the time. When Verizon came out with the XV6600 champagne, I was on it like a duck on a junebug.
And, as Paul Harvey would say, "now you know...the REST of the story. Goooooood day!"