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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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[-] cousinofjah@twit.social 2 points 11 months ago

I had a Motorola StarTac, but I also had a plug-in organizer that I could import my contacts and initiate calls with. On top of that I had a cable that that I could tether my iPaq to by dialing #777 . My next phone was a Palm Treo.

[-] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 2 points 11 months ago

Nokia 6100. It was awesome

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months 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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[-] ares35@kbin.social 2 points 11 months 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.

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

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

[-] lemann@lemmy.one 2 points 11 months ago

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

[-] aard@kyu.de 2 points 11 months ago

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

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

That little camera module looks like it actually took decent pics based on the sample on the wiki. Esp considering it's from 2002.

[-] aard@kyu.de 2 points 11 months ago

It did, but note that the linked picture is the full resolution of the camera. Also, the phone had very limited storage space, and the display was in no way suitable for displaying the pictures taken, so you just hoped for the best until you managed to check them on your computer.

The S55 got lost eventually, but the camera module should still be around here somewhere.

[-] notthebees@reddthat.com 2 points 11 months ago

Nokia 2680 Slide.

I miss that thing. https://goo.gl/search/Nokia+2680+SLIDE+BLUE&hl=en Nokia 2680 SLIDE BLUE, Mobile phone

[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I had a predecessor of that (Samsung dual flip but no e ink buttons) that I lost while drunk. So I got the new iPhone 3g to replace it.https://www.clublexus.com/forums/attachments/general-classifieds/114261d1194963393-samsung-sch-u740-dual-flip-phone-verizon-ss1.jpg

I had this one shortly before that: https://forums.macrumors.com/proxy.php?image=http:%2F%2Fnews.cnet.com%2Fi%2Fne%2Fp%2F2005%2F042505samsung_phones.jpg&hash=72f2c8627e066462a633888642027e9f

[-] ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm to young for. feature phones. although my first phone was a wonderful 2010 HTC desire brown a high-end phone in its heyday with 576mb of ram and a 3.7 touchscreen and like with most older android smartphones this had an user replaceable battery headphone jack and are easy to root...... They don't make erm like they use to

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

Had a Samsung F250L. Neat little phone, decent camera for the time I've had it (2008-13). As much as I'd like some dumb phones again, the very least it'd had to have is fucking whatsapp, otherwise i'd be the "incommunicado". I suspect something running KaiOS would suffice

[-] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 2 points 11 months ago

Last non-android was a Nokia 95-4. Was still fairly smart though. In fact if I recall it had a lot more functionality than the iPhone 3g that my gf had at the same time.

Last non smart was probably the Nokia 7250.

[-] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months 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.

[-] M500@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Some blackberry, but if that doesn’t count then it was I think the lg chocolate.

[-] Ubettawerk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago

LG Voyager. Loved that phone!

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

Something like this, idk if it was this exact phone though. Only used it for a few months before getting an LG smartphone.

[-] liv@lemmy.nz 2 points 11 months ago

Nokia c5-00 and I stil prefer it.

[-] Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months 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.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

I forget the name but it was the same style at the LG FlipShot.

[-] Bebo@literature.cafe 2 points 11 months ago

Nokia C5-00.

[-] kuneho@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I had a Sony Ericsson W595i before my first smartphone (which was a Vodafone 845)

I loved Sony Ericssons, had a bunch of them, because they were extremely moddable through VKP patches. it ran Doom natively 😄

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

Nokia E52 And before that Sony Ericsson W200 And even before that Mitsubishi M320

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

Motorola v551j

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

Nokia 3220 with the cool led lights on the side lol

I used that thing until it literally fell apart, and I did not treat it gently.

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

Wow. I totally don't remember and now you're making me wish I did. It was a red flip phone, but I don't even know what company made it.

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[-] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 1 points 11 months ago

Alias 2 and I still have it packed away in a box.

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