They don’t make them small like they used to…
The snap of a clamshell
The sony walkman one.
Or the slide phones 🥲
It was such a simple yet fun device. It had really good sound and an equaliser, which was special at the time. Played loads of music on it. Great battery life too. No WiFi, but honestly, that might be a plus nowadays.
The Sony Walkman / Ericcson slide was S tier.
My old Motorola Razr. I used to like flipping it open like a Star Trek communicator, but it was also just a cool little phone.
The aesthetic on top of the fact that a whole phone could be made so thin was such a lasting iconic (fun) era
When I was a little 1980s kid, my family got rid of a malfunctioning wall-mounted rotary phone which had been installed there since time immemorial. I asked if I could keep it and my mom said no, but she did let me exercise my curiosity by taking it apart to see what the innards were like.
I kept the dial, and it still lives on a shelf of mildly-interesting things in my house. It still spins, though the recoil speed is way slower than it should be
(I also grew up to be a phone phreak.)
I didn’t take apart a phone to get it, but I managed to buy a rotary dial mechanism from a surplus store near where I grew up when I was a teen (maybe thirty years ago?). I think I’ve still got it in a drawer. It’s honestly a very clever design, and the sound is kind of weirdly soothing.
Man casually shows off his h dial
Microsoft is now the architect of a lot of shit. But the Windows Phone systems were surprisingly good, and a competitive alternative to iOS and Android. Even using Internet Explorer for its browser wasn’t so bad, since it was the late years of the browser when they understood standards compliance was critical, and followed them entirely.
Its moderate success in outer regions was delivered as an overpromise that lead to Windows 8 as a very “fullscreen touchscreen” OS, so it especially sucks that its follow-on legacy was so tarnished.
It was good at the time, but that hideous OS would never fly today.
liked the flip-phones with clips to hang them on your belt. no pockets needed. like a pager
Oh boy how I miss using this bad boy:
this with Linux would bang!!! I hope that Jolla created the Other Half
The Nokia N900 and N950 were phones like that, came with Linux, and did indeed bang.
Too late for Linux phones, too early for Linux phones u_u
I still have hopes for Jolla.
Motorola Droid 2. I just miss keyboard sliders.
The sony ericsson xperia pro was my dream phone because of how it looked with the keyboard slider. Timeless design imo
Are you me?
We might have obsessed over the same phones haha
I think that’s the last phone I had with a flip out keyboard. Man, I miss it.
I had the original Droid and Droid 3, both great phones for the first year then rapidly declined into junk. That first year was great, though!
I had the original Motorola Droid as well. I loved the flipping the keyboard out, but you’re correct, it degraded to junk so fast.
My Nexus 6P with the finger print sensor on the back. It supported gestures on the fingerprint sensor too, so you could unlock it and then swipe up or down to do an action. I had down swipe as pull down the notification shade, so could check notifications without even touching the screen.
Yes I miss that feature too. Rear mounted sensor was much better than in screen, and I loved the gesture for scrolling
I also sometimes reminisce about my Nexus 6P, until I remember the battery being near dead by the time I took my lunch break at work
Yes, all my various BlackBerrys.
Have you seen the new Titan 2?
I wanted to get this, but I wound up picking the Fairphone.
Have you seen the newer Titan 2 Elite?
I miss my Crackberry. I could touch-type and carry-on a physical conversation. If I could get a reasonable Android phone with a BlackBerry keyboard (slide-out or otherwise) I would buy that for the next 2 or 3 decades. Maybe more.
My Blackberry torch was my favourite phone ever.
Same. The Bold 9900 was peak. I’m excited to see what the new Clicks device does.
1961 Bell System Model 554 Rotary Dial Wall Telephone
But the apps sucked.
This one didn’t suck, you blew
I reminisce about the time when I would get a new phone and then spent a whole day going through the settings and tweaking stuff.
Setting up a new phone now is arguably easier and faster but also just boring
I actually do kind of miss my windows phone LOL
My nokia windows phone was the best. Stylish, great battery, great camera.
Windows phone with the tiles remains the best phone interface by far. Since then i’ve had to make my own custom interface because i can’t go back to ugly ass icons.
I love the concept of that launcher, so much I’ve tried it numerous times.
In the end, a launcher just doesn’t work for me. But that tiled UI is definitely the best approach I’ve seen.
The Nokia Lumias were really interesting
i wish they’d bring those back, i totally missed that era
Me too. I didn’t even have famcy ones. I had the cheap $20 Nokia 520
Same, and it was still a solid little phone, I used it until most of the apps stopped being supported, and even then, it was my backup phone for years, until the networks stopped supporting it.
My Lumia is still the best phone I’ve ever had. It still works, to an extent, despite having fallen out of my pocket at biking speed multiple times. Unfortunately everyone and their dog uses WhatsApp now so when WhatsApp decided to stop supporting my model, it became nearly useless. I’m still angry about it.
One of the few benefits of being American, no one is using whatsapp
Nokia with Windows Phone is great. It is still the best interface just right before MS made it worse with WP10 IMO. It is still amazing to me that when I gave one to my mom back when she was changing from a normal non touch screen phone, she immediately gets it and I don’t have to coach.
And I personally also like the design philosophy behind WP 7 up until 8.1. I just can’t get behind WP10 and later.
I had windows mobile 5.0 😆
Same. It was SHIT but the battery was epic and i used to spend time on it playing shite games on long train journeys.
Omg you know what, when I had one it was still called Windows Mobile, not Windows Phone yet. Games weren’t really big yet!
Haha. It was backgammon, don’t think I had the option for anything more high end.
Seemed so bizarre at the time, but the changeups it had made for a fun experience
Perfect size and shape, good button response, no distracting apps, could provide mobile-internet over IR to a laptop (eg Satellite Pro 4200)(speed was in between 33.6kbps and 56 kbps) .
WAP was a nonsense gimmick.
Solid phone.
My Nexus 4. Great phone! I regret giving it away after I broke the screen for the second time by stupidity. It was light, fast and beautiful
