They don’t make them small like they used to…
The snap of a clamshell
The sony walkman one.
Or the slide phones 🥲
Microsoft is now the architect of a lot of shit. But the Windows Phone systems were surprisingly good, and a competitive alternative to iOS and Android. Even using Internet Explorer for its browser wasn’t so bad, since it was the late years of the browser when they understood standards compliance was critical, and followed them entirely.
Its moderate success in outer regions was delivered as an overpromise that lead to Windows 8 as a very “fullscreen touchscreen” OS, so it especially sucks that its follow-on legacy was so tarnished.
It was good at the time, but that hideous OS would never fly today.
liked the flip-phones with clips to hang them on your belt. no pockets needed. like a pager
I still sometimes think about my Nokia Lumia 730, my first smartphone. It was an absolute joy to use. The live tiles which was implemented so badly in PC looked so cool on phone.
Windows phone was light and fluid unlike the bloated Touchwiz most people used on their Samsungs those days. Things weren’t always rosy though, I used to wait for turns to get my hands on my friend’s android just so I could play the multiplayer games which didnt have a port. Never could follow the latest trending photo filter app , i think one was name prisma. Now I think it was probably for the best.
Held on to it as much as I could but with the app ecosystem not expanding and several services limited to just Android and IOS, I had to give it up.
My htc hero had a track ball. Peak android right there. Also literally the first android in the US if I recall correctly.
It was such a simple yet fun device. It had really good sound and an equaliser, which was special at the time. Played loads of music on it. Great battery life too. No WiFi, but honestly, that might be a plus nowadays.
The Sony Walkman / Ericcson slide was S tier.
My Nexus 4. Great phone! I regret giving it away after I broke the screen for the second time by stupidity. It was light, fast and beautiful
My old Motorola Razr. I used to like flipping it open like a Star Trek communicator, but it was also just a cool little phone.
The aesthetic on top of the fact that a whole phone could be made so thin was such a lasting iconic (fun) era
I reminisce about the time when I would get a new phone and then spent a whole day going through the settings and tweaking stuff.
Setting up a new phone now is arguably easier and faster but also just boring
When I was a little 1980s kid, my family got rid of a malfunctioning wall-mounted rotary phone which had been installed there since time immemorial. I asked if I could keep it and my mom said no, but she did let me exercise my curiosity by taking it apart to see what the innards were like.
I kept the dial, and it still lives on a shelf of mildly-interesting things in my house. It still spins, though the recoil speed is way slower than it should be
(I also grew up to be a phone phreak.)
I didn’t take apart a phone to get it, but I managed to buy a rotary dial mechanism from a surplus store near where I grew up when I was a teen (maybe thirty years ago?). I think I’ve still got it in a drawer. It’s honestly a very clever design, and the sound is kind of weirdly soothing.
Man casually shows off his h dial
Nokia n900. It was everything a smart phone should have been in the first place.
I still have, in my little nostalgia cash box, a Nokia phone from the early 2000s that has Nokia Bowling on it. Doesn’t have an adapter, but I’m not letting that phone go.
My Nexus 6P with the finger print sensor on the back. It supported gestures on the fingerprint sensor too, so you could unlock it and then swipe up or down to do an action. I had down swipe as pull down the notification shade, so could check notifications without even touching the screen.
Yes I miss that feature too. Rear mounted sensor was much better than in screen, and I loved the gesture for scrolling
I also sometimes reminisce about my Nexus 6P, until I remember the battery being near dead by the time I took my lunch break at work
I miss my old Nokia 6800 Typing was so nice on that phone.
Oh boy how I miss using this bad boy:
this with Linux would bang!!! I hope that Jolla created the Other Half
The Nokia N900 and N950 were phones like that, came with Linux, and did indeed bang.
Too late for Linux phones, too early for Linux phones u_u
I still have hopes for Jolla.
