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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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[-] Rookeh@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The last one I had was the original Motorola Razr and it was the second cell phone I ever had. My first phone was actually a smartish phone; my first cell was a Danger Hiptop (Sidekick). It was almost exactly like a modern smartphone; internet connected and used apps. But was around before the iPhone and did not have a touch screen. Only reason it wasn't also my last "dumb" phone was because my original broke long after they stopped selling them. Just to put in perspective how long I had these: my next phone after the Razr and first actual smartphone was a Nexus 4.

[-] indigojasper@kbin.social 3 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

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[-] Fracturedfox@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

I also had the alias 2. I thought I was pretty hot shit with the fancy flip-both-directions phone. And I think there was a little display on the outside too, right? With the time and some other basic notifications?

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[-] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

I held out on a smartphone for a long time because I loved my Alias so much. That keyboard thing was cool as fuck.

[-] Zidane@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago
[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

I also had the Alias 2. Great phone. Technically I still have it but it is inactivated.

I still have a flip phone. Nokia piece of shit on Verizon. Works well for voice but it's shit for anything else.

[-] Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

Motorola Razr IIRC. First smartphone was a Samsung Galaxy S.

[-] B4tid0@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago
[-] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Fuck yeah, I had the Alias 2 too. Such a cool phone. Then I also switched to an iphone 5.

[-] droidpenguin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Do you still use an iPhone? I switched to Android after 4 years with my iPhone 5 and still use Android today.

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[-] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't think I could say, honestly. My last (and first) dumb phone was a hand-me-down from my mother c2009, and I rarely used it. It spent most of its remaining life in a drawer with its battery removed, only coming out when I was going places where other forms of communication would be scarce. I think I made maybe a dozen calls (and one seriously garbled text message) before grudgingly getting a smart device in 2011.

And yes, my Boomer mother had gone through multiple cell phones before her Millennial son got his first.

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

I don't even want a smartphone now. would love a feature flip phone with the capability of being a hotspot. so wish that was a thing.

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[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Don't remember the exact model but something like this Nokia 1110.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

I had a blackberry bold which was sorta in between smart and dumb. My last actual dumb phone was an LG rumor, which was one of those with the full querty slide-out keyboard

[-] TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Moto enV 3 I think. Went from that to an HTC windows phone and then to a Moto Droid 1

[-] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

My very first phone was my only non "smart" phone. And even then it was pretty powerful for what it was. It had a web browser, could play mp3s, etc. but I don't think it was explicitly a smart phone.

My next phone was a Pantech Duo which was labeled a smart phone, but probably wouldn't be considered one by modern standards. It did the same thing as the previous phone, but you could load apps onto it, came with word, excel mobile on it, could do email, etc.

After that phone I got an iPhone 3g shortly after the 3gs came out.

[-] Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

My last non-Andorid phone was a Motorola Krzr. It was a little longer and much less wide than a Razr. If I couldn't have a smartphone I would go back to that design in a second. It worked very well.

[-] Bebo@literature.cafe 2 points 2 years ago

Nokia C5-00.

[-] anguo@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

I think it was a 2nd-hand Nokia N-Gage someone gave me. Weird phone.

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago

Motorola KRZR

God that phone sucked. It was so slow. I always wondered why Gameboy could be so damned fast, yet a phone with a much more powerful soc struggled just to bring up my contacts? They needed video game devs making the phone OS.

[-] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago

Nokia 6100. It was awesome

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago

This is a bit of a story, and depending on how you define it, I have gone back and forth between dumb and smart phones before I finally Settled on iPhone with the 5S

My first phone was a Nokia 3330, great phone, worked well, a bit too well for my parents liking when I found the wireless access protocol feature, and bruned 100sek on useless, slow internet access back in 2001 or so...

Later, I think I managed the impossible and broke my phone, and got my dads old Nokia 8210, that was extremely tiny, and really cool.

Dropped that in the snow and lost it.

Got a Sony Ericsson K700i, cool design, pretty useless phone, I lost it at home for months, and switched to my grandmothers old Nokia 5110, I meassured it against a real brick in the walls of my school, it was two thirds the size of the brick, found my K700i, but the joystick never really worked, so...

I got a Sony Ericsson K800i! That was a beast, awesome camera, rugged as hell, and super reliable, it was the first phone I had that had a usable music player, I had a large memory stick card that I filled with music, and just jammed, I broke so many 3.5mm adapters...

Then I got what I would describe as a smartish feature phone, the Nokia 5800, I even ran Putty on it to connect with a friend's Linux server and get on IRC with screen irssi! The phone was a touch phone, but resistive touch, so I needed a stylus, the music player was annoying, but the sound from the speakers, wow, it had BASE, and actually sounded good! I could even access Youtube on it, was brilliant on WiFi!

But the 5800 started deteriorating, and I had just got my first job, with my first paycheck I splashed the cash hard, and bought, what was my first smart phone, it was beutiful, had a fold out keyboard with a Swedish keyboard, a capacitive touchscreen, HDMI out, and it was mine. I had bought myself the amazing Nokia E7, can you believe it? A real Nokia E7! It was as badass as you could get back then, I felt like a complete hacker when I ran Putty on it with the keyboard folded out, I had even set up touch gestures to navigate irssi by swiping!

That phone got pickpocketed.

I could not afford to replace my E7 at the time, so I bought a Nokia Asha 300, it was crap, but worked well enough.

Now, at that time, I had a spare sim from an old mobile broadband I used in a temp apartment, it had unlimited data...

So I got a second phone!

I found a used Nokia E72, new in box, my dad had used one, and I liked the look of it, so I bought it from a reputable used phone dealer, and used it as mobile entertainment device, I could access youtube, even on the super tiny screen I got enjoyment out of the 144p video, but what I most enjoyed was internet radio, specifically, SLAYradio, an internet radio station only playing C64 remixes, that often can legally be downloaded for free, and I got so much music that way!

A few years later, I had got rid of the 300, and was using my E72 as my main phone, three days after gettibg a new job snd getting the final paycheck rom my last job, my E72 screen broke, so I got on the iPhone train with the S5

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[-] AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

Some Sony Ericsson Xperia with a slideout keyboard. Was shocked how much of a dumb brick it was compared to my iPod Touch I got at the same time.

[-] 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Nokia 5228, those times were great when friends sent me some music using the bluetooth

[-] ZosoRocks3@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

A Samsung F400,it was a slider that slid up to reveal the number pad and down to reveal a speaker. Was great for music, don't remember much more about it. Moved on to the Blackberry Bold after that as far as I remember.

[-] ares35@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

i'll let you know...

when i get one. still using a flipper. i don't "need" the internet in my pocket, and i love going weeks between charges.

[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think it was the Alias 2 or 3

[-] exothermic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Motorola Q - sold as a smart phone, was in fact dumb. Before that, moto razr

[-] lemann@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

Nokia 6300. Loved that thing, battery lasted all day and then some!

[-] aard@kyu.de 2 points 2 years ago

A Siemens S55. After that I moved to a Treo 270, and stayed with Palm until Nokia gave me an N900

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