WOw, some classics.... My first phone was a Moto StarTac (led display), then I moved to assorted Moto phones over the years, v60, v60i, v710....then I jumped into the HTC Apache as my first smart phone...but, I always carried around Microsoft PDA (PocketPC/Windows Mobile) and with my v60(I) and v710, I had adapters where I could use the phone for internet access (internet sharing)...
As I always had a PDA and phone, the Apache was the model that made me switch from both to a single device... and the rest is history...see below...