I rocked a Samsung Alias 2 for 4 years before I got an iPhone 5. The e-ink keyboard was awesome how it changed when you flipped the screen open to portrait or landscape.
Bring back sliders with full keyboards
Being back T9. I could text with it in my pocket.
What duh the ib huwdb I j texted from my pitcher just fine.
If you didn’t text with a rotary phone you were a fucking noob: There, I said it.
I really want one, I hate virtual keyboards so much. There’s the f(x)tec phones but their keyboards come out in landscape mode and I’d really rather have one where it’s portrait like the Palm Pre
I had an HTC Tilt back when the first iPhone was released. Aside from that phone running windows mobile (holy Christ, what a mess that was), I loved it so much. But then I finally joined the cult at the 3GS.
I never saw one where the keys were big enough that I didn’t mash everything around the target key with the size of my fingers, and I really don’t have big hands or anything.
The BlackBerry Curve has my favorite keyboard, and I DO have big hands!
The size of the keys are not really the issue, the size of the spacing around them is.
I miss those… ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ
or BlackBerry key approach
motorola razr
I paid $400 for one of these brand new and it was ludicrous at the time. I thought it was super cool though.
So did I, and it was. Don’t let anyone tell you differently.
Best phone ever. I read through whole libraries on that little thing, and it looks so futuristic (as long as you don’t look at the 500 pixel screen or the 140p camera)
I still have my champagne Razr around here somewhere. It works, even looks pretty new.
As a huge Formula 1 and Ferrari fan I had a Razr Maxx V6 Ferrari edition.
LG Env, I actually miss it.
I had the env2. Hands down, my favorite phone to date.
Nokia n70. Still think about it sometimes, it was a great little phone.
I used Nokia N79. Nokia N series had some amazing phones.
I miss slide out keyboards. Touch typing is trash bro.
The Samsung SCH-U740
It was a good one! It literally flipped 2 ways.
I absolutely loved mine until it got stolen out of my locker during track practice
Nokia 3310
This was mine, which I used from 2001 until 2011. I loved that phone
https://www.cnet.com/reviews/samsung-sch-a950-verizon-wireless-review/
This beast. Yeah, it has an mp3 player in it so I could put all my tunes from Kazaa on there.
I would argue im still using a dumb phone because it sure aint smart
I had a pink Moto SLVR L7
I had the same model but in black. I still have it somewhere.
Same! I’m pretty sure that was also my smallest phone, before they started going the other direction.
I think it was my Motorola Razr, then I got a Black Berry Bold, or some such. So yeah, the Razr.
It is interesting that a phone with querty keyboard, web browsing and camera is called a dumb phone.
“Camera”, “Web Browsing”…. In name only.
I had the phone pictured in the post. I even activated the browser. It was 100% trash. WAP sites and browsers were nothing like even the first iPhone. That’s what made the iPhone such a shock, no one had browsed the web like that on a phone before and it was, no exaggeration, a game changer.
As for the camera the first iPhone camera was garbage comparatively but still was better than most if not all flip phones. I have picture back from when I had that phone pictured in the post and they are a grainy mess.
Well yeah, things improved. I guess the real difference is that the smart phone is actually a mobile general purpose computing device, which, by the way, also makes a call. My reason for buying iPhone 1 was to combine two devices in one - iPod and mobile phone. I did not expect that e-mail, web browsing and camera were so good. But the real game changer was an App Store, which came later.
The nokia BRICK. No clue its really name but we all know the phone. It was my first phone i got when i entered high school.
I had this sweet thing, I was the coolest kid on the block I tell ya.
That appears to be running Android tho 😄 (granted Gingerbread, a very old version) but I don’t think that counts as a “dumb” phone haha
Is Nokia 5230 a smartphone? It didn’t feel very smart
