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I can't stand iPhones, personally. I have a little Bluetooth keyboard I use with my tablet that I could use with my phone if I felt like it.
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I woudl dearly love a new Android version of of the Nokia N97. Not the N97 mini either, the full size one with the D pad. EDIT: hosed up image link. Humphreys has a new favorite as of 08:42 on Aug 4, 2016 |
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Aug 4, 2016 08:33
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Not this one?  
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Aug 4, 2016 08:37
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My first two smart phones had physical keyboards. Don't remember what the first one was, the second was a Photon Q. The screen had a really bad habit of breaking in my pocket for no particular reason, and once it got a crack the touchscreen was completely unresponsive. I ended up having to have it replaced twice during the contract. I've been stupidly walking around with a crack in my S6 screen since October even though I paid for the insurance, but it hasn't really inconvenienced me so I haven't felt the need to go waste my time standing in line to get it replaced.
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Aug 4, 2016 08:42
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I did a quick google and there are fake as poo poo N97s with an android looking firmware. The closest to it is The N900 which can dualboot Maemo and Android. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDPTOlAazMU
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Aug 4, 2016 08:44
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error1 posted:Not this one? I'm still impressed that a device made it to market that was deliberately designed to look like goatse
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Aug 4, 2016 08:54
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Quote-Unquote posted:I'm still impressed that a device made it to market that was deliberately designed to look like goatse And that they made TWO versions of it This was the Ngage QD 
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Aug 4, 2016 08:57
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You looked like a giant rear end in a top hat trying to use a taco like a phone if you owned it, so the Goatse was truely transcendent.
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Aug 4, 2016 08:58
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Being able to play real games on a phone in 2003 seemed really impressive at the time. I'm sure they weren't any good but I digress.
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Aug 4, 2016 09:04
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Casimir Radon posted:Being able to play real games on a phone in 2003 seemed really impressive at the time. I'm sure they weren't any good but I digress. It was a garbage fire with terrible design.
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Aug 4, 2016 09:22
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 This was my last dumbphone before switching to using any free used smartphones from work. The keys are metal, with a serious CLICK when you push them. The keypad is covered in transparent plastic which the keys stick out of, and the text is printed under the plastic, so it literally cannot wear out unless your fingertips can grind plexiglass. The letters were in muscle memory, so I could write texts without looking at them by counting the number of tactile keypresses, with my other hand on the steering wheel and my eyes on the road. It wasn't safe to text and drive, but it was a whole lot safer than it is today. It also used M2 memory cards, another one of Sonys semi-proprietary memory card formats. And I took some drat good dickpics with that phone.
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Aug 4, 2016 09:22
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I was the only person I knew who liked SonyEricsson phones, something about the tight jewel-like design appealed to me over the then-ubiquitous Nokias. I had my T300 for years because I liked the responsive buttons and the shimmering glass-like front design - now it of course just looks like an expensive bar of soap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFS1vPGaIoo
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Aug 4, 2016 11:47
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remember that cool scene in the departed where matt damon sends a text with t9 entirely based on touch while the phone is still in his pocket ? poo poo would be totally unpossible on today's phones
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Aug 4, 2016 13:00
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Humphreys posted:And that they made TWO versions of it This was my favorite. Stood up with it in my pocket and cracked it on my desk.  
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Aug 4, 2016 13:15
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i miss nokia's cool innovative phones. that was a great time
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Aug 4, 2016 13:16
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Did anyone ever have a sidekick? I was a bit too young to have one when they were relevant but it seems they were pretty popular for a time.
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Aug 4, 2016 13:21
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Oh sure but Baron Zemo killed him.
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Aug 4, 2016 13:28
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Gay Weed Dad posted:Did anyone ever have a sidekick? I was a bit too young to have one when they were relevant but it seems they were pretty popular for a time. When I started school at R.I.T. circa 2005 all the deaf kids (we were also home to the National Technical Institute for the Deaf) had Sidekicks.
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FilthyImp posted:You looked like a giant rear end in a top hat trying to use a taco like a phone if you owned it, so the Goatse was truely transcendent. Lest we ever forget SIDETALKIN http://sidetalking.com
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Data Graham posted:Lest we ever forget SIDETALKIN One of my high school buds is on there. He's the kid with the jewfro holding the camping stove. E: Page 6, after the guy with the ironing board. Man, that was over a decade ago.
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Aug 4, 2016 14:31
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error1 posted:Not this one? Humphreys posted:And that they made TWO versions of it So I used to have a Nokia 3650, which aside from the completely retarded birth control dialpad, was a pretty good phone for it's time.  It was the first phone in the US to have a built in camera, it wasn't terribly bulky compared to other phones (until motorola came out with the RAZR), and it was a real smart phone meaning it had internet access and apps. It also the first phone in the US to run Nokia's smartphone OS: Symbian 60. After having the phone for a couple years, the radio started dieing and I could only make phone calls when I was standing outside, preferably with a line of sight of a cell tower. I went to the Cingular store hoping that I could get something else that ran Sybian 60, but the only thing they had was the Ngage (original, I think). I told myself "you know this thing is a bad handheld game system, but it runs the same OS as your last phone so at least it probably be a decent smartphone." It was completely awful. Stupid taco phone side talking thing is every bit as stupid as it looks. The SD card (that games came on) is behind the battery, so you have to take the drat thing apart to change the game. The buttons and dpad were terrible. But the screen... the screen orientation was the worst part. If Nokia had bothered to research anything at all about video games, they would have found out that vertical screens, or Portrait, are only used in some arcade games. Horizontal, or Landscape, is the prefered orientation for practically every game. Why they didn't make it so you held the whole phone vertically when using it at a phone and horizontally when using it as a game device is beyond me. I returned it to the store the next day.
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Casimir Radon posted:Being able to play real games on a phone in 2003 seemed really impressive at the time. I'm sure they weren't any good but I digress. the best flash game ever, heli attack 2, had an ngage port i remember seeing advertised on their website or google or something. i tried searching for it and it appears to have dissappeared into obscurity so i guess it must have sucked, lol relly don't see how they could have transitioned that game into a crappy cell phone screen
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Aug 4, 2016 16:55
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also, lol - i have no clue how well it worked but i am going to guess not very well because how thick it must have been for when it came out (2011? dear god) plus also that is tyhe death stretch for android, pre-jellybean was basically hell especially if u didn't custom firmware
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Aug 4, 2016 17:01
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Sony ericsson always made garbage phones. Nokia owned them so hard back in the early aughts before the dawn of smart phones
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Bovril Delight posted:This was my favorite. Stood up with it in my pocket and cracked it on my desk. Wanted one of these so bad Also I was ridiculously fast at t9 text, and now I've had a touch screen keyboard since the first Android came out and I still can't type without tons of errors, swype makes it easier but still Always kind of wanted a sidekick too, I like giant phones
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Aug 4, 2016 17:23
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why was nokia's old phone os named after a gently caress machine
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thathonkey posted:remember that cool scene in the departed where matt damon sends a text with t9 entirely based on touch while the phone is still in his pocket ? poo poo would be totally unpossible on today's phones only until we bridge the gap into this 'subvocalization' thing i keep reading about in all my scifi
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Aug 4, 2016 17:27
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Ferroque posted:why was nokia's old phone os named after a gently caress machine There's no 'M' in Sybian
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Efexeye posted:only until we bridge the gap into this 'subvocalization' thing i keep reading about in all my scifi yeah thatd be the poo poo it doesnt seem feasible but hey im not science man
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Aug 4, 2016 17:33
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Humphreys posted:I woudl dearly love a new Android version of of the Nokia N97. Not the N97 mini either, the full size one with the D pad. Really wanted this one back in the day:  Despite some of the rough edges of WM at the time, it was a pretty drat powerful device and even had a 4 row keyboard, none of this 3-row bullshit. For some reason (probably cost), I ended up getting an S730 instead:  It didn't have a touchscreen, but the full numpad on the top place was great for dialing, typing short messages and searching contacts or apps. Still, the lack of touchscreen definitely limited it and I never managed to get GPS to work, which wasn't officially supported but was present on the chip. A few cracks eventually developed in the top cover, but the sliding mechanism still works very smoothly to this day. The keys are pretty firm but easily distinguishable and allowed me to touch-type under the table during class or meetings.
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Aug 4, 2016 17:40
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Internet-capable phones before smartphones were really A Thing were the greatest 
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mobby_6kl posted:Really wanted this one back in the day: Had one, it owned, plus I had whatever the model was right before this one Both of them met their end in the washing machine, RIP
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drunk asian neighbor posted:Internet-capable phones before smartphones were really A Thing were the greatest oh man those resistive touch screens and mini styluses 
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Aug 4, 2016 18:02
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gosh i had completely forgotten about palm pilots and treos and poo poo. I never was old enough to use one for real but my dad had one for his work and i loved dickin around w it
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Aug 4, 2016 18:06
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I may or may not have used one to cheat through the 101 Microeconomics class I had to take The downside is this was before a) reasonable data rates and b) low-data-optimized mobile versions of sites, so a single Google search once racked me up like $8 of data charges.
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Aug 4, 2016 18:10
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Not seeing this here saddens me :
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Aug 4, 2016 18:15
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Skoll posted:Not seeing this here saddens me : Never had that one, but I literally still use this phone when I go abroad for work:  and yes I feel like a badass whenever I take a call. It's spring-loaded so you press a button on the side and it whooshes open
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Aug 4, 2016 18:25
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Before my OG Droid, I had this, an LG VOyager. It seemed so drat cool when I got it.
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Mak0rz posted:Oh talking about console-pc accessories? I bought a DualShock 2 USB adapter for like $6 from Amazon in 2005 or so. It was made of the cheapest loving plastic you can imagine and it only took a year or so for one of the connectors to come loose (still worked fine for years after that, just needed the cable jiggled now and then). No drivers or anything: you just plugged it in and it loving worked. Hell if it wasn't the best six bucks I've ever spent. The PS2 controller is fantastic for a handful of non-FPS games on the PC. I used the same thing you have for Independence War 2 because having 2 analogue sticks is perfect for controlling your ship in full Newtonian physics mode. Even before that, I used a SNES controller. Nowadays you can just buy a SNES to USB adaptor and it works flawlessly. Before that though, I'd have to hack the cord off a SNES pad and solder it up to a parallel port DB25 plug. In those days, you'd buy a SNES pad for $5 on ebay no sweat (and so I did). Funnily enough, I kept the original ends just in case... and ended up repairing them after the fact, since now the USB adaptors exist.
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drunk asian neighbor posted:Never had that one, but I literally still use this phone when I go abroad for work: The Matrix one was a limited release but I still feel that the spring loaded ones were iconic for at least a few years. My dad had one and I used to open and close it endlessly.
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