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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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[-] Zidane@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago
[-] FriendOfaFriend@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Owned a whole bunch of Sony / Sony Ericsson phones for about a decade.

Last one before the Xperia for me was the Aino..... Loved that thing.

Is it weird you can still get them?

[-] Fracturedfox@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months 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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[-] indigojasper@kbin.social 3 points 11 months 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.

[-] norealme@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I miss my nokia n80. It was not too dumb.

[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I went back to a dumb phone. I don't regeret it for one minute.

[-] droidpenguin@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Curious what do you have now?

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[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 3 points 11 months 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.

[-] Toes@ani.social 3 points 11 months ago

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

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

I've seen proof of concepts and Kickstarters.

Uncertain if they're good or just a nostalgic gimmick

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

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.

[-] Auduras@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I had an LG VX4500. Loved that phone and still have it sitting somewhere in a drawer today.

I'll charge up old phones from time to time to read old text messages.

[-] Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago

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

[-] 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

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[-] 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

[-] 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.

[-] 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

[-] 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.

[-] anguo@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

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

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

I think it was the Alias 2 or 3

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

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.

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Never had a Sidekick but I always thought they looked satisfyingly functional

[-] 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

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

I think it was the Octane

[-] 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.

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

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

[-] 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.

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