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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.

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[-] Sabakodgo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

Nokia N93
My first smartphone was HTC HD2 which I replaced around 2016 for Pixel, which I still use.

[-] u_tamtam@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago

Does that qualify as a dumb phone though? Symbian could do a lot more, and better, in the area of productivity tools, multitasking, customization and apps management than android/iOS did, and for a very long time. The form factor wasn't putting as much emphasis on the screen real estate but that doesn't make it less smart.

[-] Michal@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago
[-] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'd say it was a "smart phone" and not a "smartphone". It, and other Symbian phones like it, existed before the iPhone came out and made touchscreen smart phones a thing. Basically a PDA + Phone.

Even Samsung had a colour touchscreen before iPhone but no one saw it as the first "smartphone". The iPhone was the 'first' true smartphone though you could argue several others before it were smartphones. But I'd class them as "smart phones".

[-] Michal@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

That may be your opinion, but if you follow my Wikipedia link, it says it's a smartphone, so I'm not even going to argue. Wikipedia has a widely accepted definition of a smartphone.

[-] Nima@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I had the n95 and I loved it as well. the N-series was fantastic.

but they are sadly smartphones.

[-] letsgocrazy@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

N95 was my phone when my friend got the iPhone One. I remember uselessly arguing that my N95 also played videos and music and all that iPhone stuff as well.... Except, it was so fucking slow to take videos.

I remember standing in the street and seeing a massive huge brawl outside of a pub, loads of people doing all sorts of crazy shit and I was standing there desperately trying to record a video while the shitty, sluggish N95 missed it all.

That experience really scarred me because now I'm obsessed with the absolute quick-draw features of modern phones - like the Google Pixel.

[-] Nima@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I will say... I kinda miss the T9. but I might be alone in that. lol. I feel like they used some kind of beefed up T9 software for symbian. specifically to use in the Nseries phones. but I am not 100% certain.

I just remember that texting was never an issue and I could do it fast with the T9.

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