I miss my nokia n80. It was not too dumb.
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
Motorola V635i
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.
BlackBerry
I held out on a smartphone for a long time because I loved my Alias so much. That keyboard thing was cool as fuck.
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.
That blue is very nice!
That's what I thought back then... I believe. Everyone had a green or orange display, I was the young rebel I was back in the day ;)
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.
Sony-Ericsson W350i. Had it for about a year before I got my first Android device, an HTC Hero.
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?
Nokia 6630
My first phone was a smartphone. But a smartphone version of the one in your picture would be awesome.
This small form factor running Android would be very cool! Despite a small screen, it'd probably work well enough since you wouldn't have a software keyboard taking up 50% of the screen real estate. The e-ink keyboard is a good compromise of having dynamic changing keys but still have the tactile feedback.
I think it was the Octane
Nokia 8210. It was small and awesome. It was before small became lame.
I believe it was Siemens MC60. I remember getting my arm broken and then getting 10k CZK from the accident benefits. Parents asked me what I wanted for part of that money when I was in the hospital and I said this.
Then I bought a refurbished Treo 650 in 2015, an awesome piece of technology if only it had a WiFi (there was a possibility of a module that clipped on the back which had its own battery, or there were WiFi SDIO cards, but I, being a poor student who poured all his savings into the phone (yeah, very bad financial decision), couldn't afford either of them.
I still miss a phone like that, but with a modern chipset and maybe a better OS (but still somehow based on the PalmOS original path)
I had a Sanyo SCP 7400 (clamshell) for a number of years during the mid-2000s and it was solid as a rock. Loved that phone.
I think it was a 2nd-hand Nokia N-Gage someone gave me. Weird phone.
I think it was the Alias 2 or 3
Nokia 3510i if I recall.
I think I also had a cheap Motorola flip phone too.
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
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.
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.
Nokia 5228, those times were great when friends sent me some music using the bluetooth
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.
Moto enV 3 I think. Went from that to an HTC windows phone and then to a Moto Droid 1
Oh how I miss the days of simple yet complex innovation.
I had the flip shot (camera phone that flipped into a digital camera) from Verizon and the LG chocolate (slide up phone).
Both were amazing. Though I'd have to say my favorite was the tmobile sidekick.
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