They don’t make them small like they used to…
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
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
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.
Motorola Droid 2. I just miss keyboard sliders.
The sony ericsson xperia pro was my dream phone because of how it looked with the keyboard slider. Timeless design imo
Are you me?
We might have obsessed over the same phones haha
I think that’s the last phone I had with a flip out keyboard. Man, I miss it.
I had the original Droid and Droid 3, both great phones for the first year then rapidly declined into junk. That first year was great, though!
I actually do kind of miss my windows phone LOL
My nokia windows phone was the best. Stylish, great battery, great camera.
Windows phone with the tiles remains the best phone interface by far. Since then i’ve had to make my own custom interface because i can’t go back to ugly ass icons.
The Nokia Lumias were really interesting
i wish they’d bring those back, i totally missed that era
Same. It was SHIT but the battery was epic and i used to spend time on it playing shite games on long train journeys.
Omg you know what, when I had one it was still called Windows Mobile, not Windows Phone yet. Games weren’t really big yet!
Haha. It was backgammon, don’t think I had the option for anything more high end.
Me too. I didn’t even have famcy ones. I had the cheap $20 Nokia 520
Same, and it was still a solid little phone, I used it until most of the apps stopped being supported, and even then, it was my backup phone for years, until the networks stopped supporting it.
My Lumia is still the best phone I’ve ever had. It still works, to an extent, despite having fallen out of my pocket at biking speed multiple times. Unfortunately everyone and their dog uses WhatsApp now so when WhatsApp decided to stop supporting my model, it became nearly useless. I’m still angry about it.
One of the few benefits of being American, no one is using whatsapp
Nokia with Windows Phone is great. It is still the best interface just right before MS made it worse with WP10 IMO. It is still amazing to me that when I gave one to my mom back when she was changing from a normal non touch screen phone, she immediately gets it and I don’t have to coach.
And I personally also like the design philosophy behind WP 7 up until 8.1. I just can’t get behind WP10 and later.
I had windows mobile 5.0 😆
Seemed so bizarre at the time, but the changeups it had made for a fun experience
1961 Bell System Model 554 Rotary Dial Wall Telephone
But the apps sucked.
This one didn’t suck, you blew
Occasionally I miss my old Nexus 5. The screen felt so big at the time and I loved it’s sharp edges
I was infatuated not with the 5, but with the Nexus 5X design in white. That era of android was soo clean
Nexus 5 peak android customization, I had cyanogen mod dual booted with stock android.
I still have mine lying around. Had to switch it out when the WiFi died from experiments with firmware and whatever I did to it in the end. I also remember downloading different camera apps where you could change just about every setting like nothing I have ever seen after that.
Those were the times.
Nokia n900 for me, circa 2010. It ran Linux (real Linux!), had a pretty good camera, headphone jack, sd card slot, slide out keyboard, 4or 5 day battery life, xmpp instant messaging natively. It was perfect. It was a little bit chunky, but would fit in a jeans pocket perfectly and didn’t weigh too much.
Sony Xperia Z3 Compact
Palm Centro
Palm Pre
Motorola Droid
Motorola RAZR V3M
LG used to put really good DACs in their phones. So for somebody who uses his phone as an MP3 player that can also take calls, my LG V30 was perfect.
I loved my V50… until it got baaaad screen burn-in. Older OLED screens were kinda crappy tbh
I’m still holding onto my V40, eventually want to use it as a soundboard for gaming or something
I still have my LG G3 with Cyanogenmod on it. Live to boot it up and pretend it’s 2014
I had the V60. It was a little big, but audio was great. I miss the headphone jack. I’m sad they don’t make phones anymore.
I am gutted that my LG Wing’s USB port is damaged. I can still charge it thanks to having wireless charging so now I always look for phones with one AS A BACKUP for charging.
But it’s the fun quirky spinning slider screen is just amazing. For pure unadulterated brain rot doomscrolling, I can put on a YouTube video or stream on the main screen and hold the phone “upright”, the video will be playing in full screen and I can shitpost in discord or anywhere on the small screen.
Or if I want to shitpost more seriously, I swap the positions and hold the phone 90 degrees and have whatever social media I have on the main screen in portrait and have the video play on the small screen.
It also makes for a great car phone. Have whatever navigation app I’m running on the main, and have the music player on the small screen to easily change tracks. Maybe one day I’ll be brave enough to crack the back open and replace the USB port.
HTC m8 and m9. Those were such good phones…
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.
My purse got stolen once and my Sony Ericsson T300 (and my favorite lipstick) were in it, and nothing will ever emotionally live up to that phone. I loved it and I probably love it more because it was taken from me before I got tired of it.
HTC Windows Phone 8S. The Windows Phone was actually really nice and it’s kinda sad it was discontinued.
My Nokia 6800
