They don’t make them small like they used to…
The snap of a clamshell
The sony walkman one.
Or the slide phones 🥲
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Not as old, but I miss using my Essentials PH-1. It had stock android instead of a carrier or maker version of android and some really cool features.
The add-on possibilities looked good, since it had two power pads on the back with a magnet, and wireless USB interface.
You could mag click on adapters to add hardware.
I had the 360 video camera add on, and the company folded before I had a chance to purchase the audio DAC headphone add on.
Still daily driving mine as a dedicated music/podcast player with Lineage OS 22.2. Only wish is longer battery life!
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
I don’t really reminisce, but lament having a Nokia N9 with the meego os and watching Microsoft buy the company and run it into the ground.
The phone was small, quite heavy in comparison, but the icons and ui worked (and still works) with the low px-res UI.
Blackberry phones worked everywhere, anywhere in the world, it was the only system that worked during 9/11.
physical keyboards were faster and more accurate.
liked the flip-phones with clips to hang them on your belt. no pockets needed. like a pager
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I still sometimes think about my Nokia Lumia 730, my first smartphone. It was an absolute joy to use. The live tiles which was implemented so badly in PC looked so cool on phone.
Windows phone was light and fluid unlike the bloated Touchwiz most people used on their Samsungs those days. Things weren’t always rosy though, I used to wait for turns to get my hands on my friend’s android just so I could play the multiplayer games which didnt have a port. Never could follow the latest trending photo filter app , i think one was name prisma. Now I think it was probably for the best.
Held on to it as much as I could but with the app ecosystem not expanding and several services limited to just Android and IOS, I had to give it up.
My htc hero had a track ball. Peak android right there. Also literally the first android in the US if I recall correctly.
Yes. The HTC TyTN. Full slide out keyboard. Windows CE. Decent memory. Decent battery life. I jailbroke it too so I had even more customizability.
Also the original iPhone 3g. Still have it. Still works.
Both of them represent the (mostly) pre-enshittified internet.
