My first smartphone was the Nokia 7610 that was gifted to me sometime in 2004.
It had a 176x208 screen with support for 65K colours. It had 8 MB RAM and 64 MB of storage.
It ran on Symbian Series 60 2nd Edition. I don’t think there was an app store. I remember getting J2ME apps/games off of third party stores. Note the presence of RealPlayer:
In terms of applications, I had a J2ME version of Google Maps, which was very impressive in 2004; this was when paper maps were still commonly used. The J2ME version of Gmail also felt very futuristic.
It had a browser that could access the regular web (not just WAP). Vast majority of websites had no mobile friendly views, but websites were somewhat simpler then. Google Search did have a good mobile web version as did Google News (if I remember correctly). Keypad navigation actually worked much better than you think it would.
I did listen to MP3s on the Nokia 7610, but you could only put a few on the phone. You technically could also watch videos, but I never tried it.
I believe I kept using this phone all the way till 2007-2008 when I switched to another Symbian device. I only switched to Android with 4.x when I got the HTC One X in 2012.
My first “real” phone was the HTC Hero. Slow as heck and had a random trackball that I never used. Loved it though.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HTC_Hero_(CDMA_-_Sprint).jpg
For me it was HTC Tattoo, Hero’s cheaper younger brother.
It had the same type of touch screen as the Nintendo DS, so it was made of soft plastic with no multitouch.
My main annoyance with it was that HTC stopped releasing software updates almost immediately, in a time when Android was rapidly developing. So I ended up flashing my own ROM when their promised upgrades never came. Then, when the hardware failed, they refused to repair it because of the custom ROM. That’s when I knew smartphones were going to be shit.