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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 1 year 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.

[-] ZosoRocks3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nokia 5228, those times were great when friends sent me some music using the bluetooth

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Bebo@literature.cafe 2 points 1 year ago

Nokia C5-00.

[-] liv@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

Nokia c5-00 and I stil prefer it.

[-] AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] M500@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year 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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[-] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Nokia 6100. It was awesome

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Nokia 8210. It was small and awesome. It was before small became lame.

[-] tslnox@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

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)

[-] mkhopper@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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.

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

Nokia 3510i if I recall.

I think I also had a cheap Motorola flip phone too.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Don't remember the exact model but something like this Nokia 1110.

[-] DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Alcatel OT606A with slide out keyboard

[-] ThatBaldFella@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

An LG KF600. It was pretty mediocre.

[-] pelya@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I had Nokia 2720 and I had ported DOOM to it.

It was meh. No OS updates in forever, and T9 sucks.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Motorola v551j

[-] Thteven@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year 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.

[-] thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Newegg used to sell this one dumb phone for like $12. Completely unbranded garbage but it made calls and did sms.

My brother used to lose his phone or drop it in the toilet constantly. We had like 3 or 4 of that crappy phone just because he kept doing stupid stuff.

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