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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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[-] Auduras@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I had an LG VX4500. Loved that phone and still have it sitting somewhere in a drawer today.

I'll charge up old phones from time to time to read old text messages.

[-] Songar87@eviltoast.org 4 points 11 months ago

An LG EnV 3. The full keyboard was a must for new!

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[-] Logh@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

Nokia n70. Still think about it sometimes, it was a great little phone.

[-] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

I used Nokia N79. Nokia N series had some amazing phones.

[-] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago

my only "dumb phone" was a nokia 5300.

i used it for years, until i got dads old iphone 3 after he switched to a samsung phone.

i think that was a few months before jobs died, and the iphone 4s was released.

[-] Patawagon@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 11 months ago

Sony Ericsson w810 -> iPhone 3g.

My First and last iPhone

[-] 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.

[-] BattleGrown@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Is Nokia 5230 a smartphone? It didn't feel very smart

[-] Thranduil@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I would argue im still using a dumb phone because it sure aint smart

[-] Dee@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I had this sweet thing, I was the coolest kid on the block I tell ya.

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[-] autokludge@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago

How dumb? OG Motoroloa RAZR V3 > Nokia N96 before I had an iOS or Android device.

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[-] nomecks@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I had one and it was great. I rode a scooter everywhere at the time, and I could pull this out of my pocket, let it spring open and stick it up inside my helmet for some easy one hand to hands free calls.

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[-] EvilEyedPanda@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Dude I loved my Envy 2, played so much Tetris in the bathroom at work!

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago

Sony-Ericsson J110i. Still have it somewhere.

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago
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[-] tiredofsametab@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

Some flip-phone from Sprint, though I can't even recall the name now. It had the ability to play text-based games and even snake! I think I was carrying a Palm Pilot near the end of that. It was an upgrade from the first brick I kept in my car for emergencies only. In 2004ish, I upgraded to a Siemens SX66 (Windows-based smartphone) and ditched the Palm Pilot. I continued to use Windows phones (I think I ended with an HTC Hero or something similar), until finally being convinced by borrowing a friend's old iPhone to get one of those. Was on iPhone from 3gs until 6plus. I made the jump to Android when Pixel 6 Pro came out, and that's what I still have today.

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[-] indigojasper@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

I don't member the exact model but I had an LG Voyager that i held onto for a long time... I did NOT want to give up my physical keyboard for the touchscreen keyboard so I held out as long as I could. If Samsung came out with a slide-out keyboard for smartphones I'd be on that shit right away.

[-] Toes@ani.social 3 points 11 months ago

My first phone was a smartphone. But a smartphone version of the one in your picture would be awesome.

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[-] Albatross2724@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

My last phone before my first smartphone was a Microsoft Kin 2, but it was actually a pretty cool phone if you didn't want to pay for a data plan.

[-] Bathtubwalrus@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

My last one was similar, but smaller screen. LG Rumor

[-] Jupeter@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I had the James Bond edition of Sony Ericsson C902. The camera was nice but the UI had frame rate issues. I came from a brown SE K770i which was buttery smooth. From C902 I went to Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, my first touchscreen phone and first Android where I learned about apps, OS updates, fustom ROMs, etc. What a fantastic phone that was.

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

I remember my first phone better than the last feature phone I had. First was the Nokia 5190

The last non-smartphone I owned was a Samsung I think. One of the first ones that supported media playback. It was a flip/clamshell design. After that it was a string of questionable choices until I got my first Nexus.

I had a strtrk phone (I think that was the name), which was a clamshell Windows Mobile phone and I really liked it but I went for a walk on a pretty warm day and got a call. After a long conversation, enough sweat got into the phone that it died. I also had the HTC touch, I think it was called. Anyways, it was a soap bar but slid sideways and had a qwerty keyboard, also Windows phone. I eventually picked up a Motorola milestone (other regions may know it as the Motorola Droid), which was similar to the HTC, but thinner, with a bigger screen, and it ran android, my first Android phone.

Then I eventually gave up on the hardware keyboard because nobody made phones with them that were any good, went through a few other HTC's that were all Android and very forgettable, until I landed on the Nexus 4. I've been doing the Google thing since. I owned a Nexus 4, 5, 6, 7, and 5X, as well as the pixel 1, 4 and now 7. Over the years, I've had secondary phones, usually iPhones, but not always, sometimes for work, sometimes just to have something different with me. I think I've used the 6/6 SE and one of the cheap ones.... I forget which cheap one, but one of them.

[-] sagrotan@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I don't know, the last one was maybe a Motorola clamshell, but from the "old" ones I had a Bosch GSM909, yes, they made phones. Barely usable and horribly expensive to use. But it had a blue 2 line display. A BLUE DISPLAY. Woooooow.

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[-] Rookeh@startrek.website 3 points 11 months ago

Sony-Ericsson W350i. Had it for about a year before I got my first Android device, an HTC Hero.

[-] tipicaldik@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

An LG C1300. I carried that thing for several years. Never had to replace the battery and it would still go 3 days on a charge when I finally switched to an iPhone 3

[-] FriendOfaFriend@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Owned a whole bunch of Sony / Sony Ericsson phones for about a decade.

Last one before the Xperia for me was the Aino..... Loved that thing.

Is it weird you can still get them?

[-] BillMurray@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Motorola V635i

Motorola V635i

[-] norealme@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I miss my nokia n80. It was not too dumb.

[-] brewbellyblueberry@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 months ago

Nokia N95 and I'd probably still be using it if I didn't decide it was a great idea to go swimming with my clothes on.

[-] Michal@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago

Nokia n95 is a smartphone, not a dumb phone. It has Symbian OS, you can install apps, copy/paste, browse internet. I used to have the 8gb one, it has more capabilities than the first iPhone.

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[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I went back to a dumb phone. I don't regeret it for one minute.

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