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#7 was my second phone and it was great. No vibration feature, but it was a solid phone that worked quite some time on a full charge. My first one was the Motorola M3688, which had a neat feature in that with a separate battery lid it could run off of 4 AA batteries. Never bothered to get that lid though. Of course I also had the 3310 with some cheap replacement covers. Got my own operator logo and some downloaded ringtones on there via my dialup modem while the rest of the country paid those SMS services to get that. My most favorite pre-smartphone phone I had though was the Siemens S55 which I managed to score for cheap off of eBay along with the camera module and a spare battery, as well as a desk stand charger that held said spare battery so you could charge both at the same time. Lasted about a week on a full charge and it ran some Java apps including an IRC client. The first smartphone I had was the HTC Wizard in its Orange-branded version. Chunky as heck, I ran it with a car holder/charger, a separate Bluetooth GPS Receiver and a pirated copy of TomTom for navigation in my car. I might even still have that receiver somewhere even though nowadays it's virtually useless. Due to the job I had back then I at one point even had two of them: One as my private phone and one as my work phone. I even used a few times it to connect via RDP to some servers for maintenance purposes when I was unable to use the work laptop for this purpose.
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Cell phone design peaked in 2007 and nothing can change my mind. My most beloved phone of all time, probably because it was the first one I picked out and paid for myself, and it wasn't just a hand-me-down Nokia from my parents. Served its purpose dutifully until somebody spilled a ton of tequila on it in early 2010.
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# ? Aug 4, 2019 18:03 |
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I still have my OG Droid because it feels like it's some futuristic cyberpunk hacking deck. All it needs is a cool, telescoping antenna.
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# ? Aug 4, 2019 18:08 |
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The HTC Tilt was pretty sweet. But I think I had one app, which was a RSS news reader. All the imaginative hardware design in the world isn't going to make up for a lame Windows Mobile ecosystem. I'm trying to remember if I had a game on this and the only thing I can think of is maybe DopeWars?
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Cojawfee posted:I still have my OG Droid because it feels like it's some futuristic cyberpunk hacking deck. All it needs is a cool, telescoping antenna. drat, I miss that keyboard.
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# ? Aug 4, 2019 18:54 |
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Krispy Wafer posted:The HTC Tilt was pretty sweet. For the time there were a ton of apps and games for WM. I had Doom and Quake source ports running on mine, the real Worms and its knockoff Snails, offline maps, MS Money, a local public transport route finder, and a bunch of other stuff. One the app store came out and was flooded with all kinds of fart apps it couldn't compete of course but I never missed any functionality really.
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# ? Aug 4, 2019 20:28 |
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My last phone was this thing. Horrible keyboard, but what do you want for $99?
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# ? Aug 4, 2019 20:45 |
hey i'm cross posting from the morrowind thread in games maybe someone will know what i'm talking about :SniperWoreConverse posted:oh man I used to have a SUPER OLD computer that my dad made me throw out another thing that I think this thing had was a lot of that silvered looking plastic, the matte kind? You know what I mean? They keyboard FOR SURE had one of those extremely old extremely huge barrel connectors, not the smaller one that you used to see had usb converters for. Now that I think about it it could have had more than one row of f keys but i'm not really that sure, I do remember it having characters on the sides of the individual keys you had to meta shift into and maybe some of them were like math alpha pi numbers or something and some seemed to be command things like GRAPH
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 05:33 |
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first was boring 2001 kyocera candybar- favorite of the end of that era was deffo the sony-ericsson walkman phone w350: it was the perfect amount of little, fit snugly in the coin pocket of any pair of jeans had some dumbshit sony propietary data/headphone connector, but other than that, favorite phone ever would pay many dollars for a bluetooth handset that is basically that phone
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 06:03 |
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SniperWoreConverse posted:hey i'm cross posting from the morrowind thread in games maybe someone will know what i'm talking about : So I don’t know the exact model but yeah that’s a thing! Sounds like an old terminal or scientific system of some type. You’re probably looking for a 60s to 80s model of some description, sounds like it used an AT connector for the keyboard maybe.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 06:10 |
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SniperWoreConverse posted:hey i'm cross posting from the morrowind thread in games maybe someone will know what i'm talking about : the "space cadet" keyboard, yes
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 06:13 |
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Tunicate posted:the "space cadet" keyboard, yes Yeah, these are probably very similar if not the exact model: https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=98&start=
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 06:15 |
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It’s amazing to me that up until the early 2000’s I was still using a 35mm camera. Digital didn’t have the storage or resolution quite yet I went on a six week trip to SE Asia in 2001 and came back with 12 rolls of 35 mm film It cost $250 to get them developed and get prints
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 06:56 |
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Tunicate posted:the "space cadet" keyboard, yes Arivia posted:Yeah, these are probably very similar if not the exact model: https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=98&start= I would wager prooobably not a Space Cadet keyboard. Those were specifically only shipped with hyper expensive mainframes and there's easily probably less than a thousand units of each ever made. Even the keyboard itself is not just something you can sneak away with, yet alone an entire mainframe system.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 07:35 |
that stuff looks drat close to the space cadet but I can't remember if it's exactly it or not. The colors might be off? Really I probably don't remember it that well, except i'm completely certain it had characters on the sides of the keys and seemed like ultra next level, but outdated, stuff. It def had that whole super meta poo poo going on and for sure had no mouse of any kind. I think that might actually be it. I could believe it was some part of some mainfraime system like a terminal, but I dunno how he managed to smuggle it out. I do know he also somehow snagged a VHS when that poo poo was cutting edge. Now that I think about it he may have been able to get it normally just by knowing a guy and we always joked that he stole it, but I'm fairly certain when he got it it was at least a little valuable. He gave me a ton of that poo poo way in the old days when I was first getting into computers. drat shame I let the old man pitch it.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 08:04 |
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Tangentially related to our topic, I've been watching old Cronenberg movies lately, and I think they're great, but it quickly occurred to me that no one's really gonna get stuff like Videodrome anymore these days. I've hardly ever seen a movie whose entire premise has been so thoroughly eliminated from our collective understanding by new developments in technology. I also feel like we're missing out on something by not having visceral body horror movies about the evils of technology anymore. We get Black Mirror, which is all good and well, but from what I've seen - I'll admit, it was only two or three early episodes - it's more like an idle intellectual exercise in resolving (close) analogues and metaphors than something that grabs you by the collar and screams in your face THIS poo poo WILL gently caress YOU UP ON A VERY PERSONAL LEVEL.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 11:06 |
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Videodrome is dated not because the VHS format has been discontinued but because James Woods has turned a giant piece of poo poo.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 11:19 |
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SniperWoreConverse posted:that stuff looks drat close to the space cadet but I can't remember if it's exactly it or not. The colors might be off? Really I probably don't remember it that well, except i'm completely certain it had characters on the sides of the keys and seemed like ultra next level, but outdated, stuff. If not an actual Space Cadet, it could've been a Symbolics Keyboard, which was the later iteration of the concept.
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Mister Kingdom posted:My last phone was this thing. Horrible keyboard, but what do you want for $99? Here's my current phone, which I got in 2010. Battery still lasts a week with light usage. It's mostly functional except people sending emojis will corrupt the whole text message and make it unreadable. Also one hinge broke last month so it's a little floppy. Work provides me with a smartphone so a flip-phone is all I need for my personal line. Unfortunately Verizon is shutting down CDMA at the end of the year so I'll have to get something else (any suggestions?)
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 14:33 |
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wa27 posted:
If you want a smartphone with (relatively) great battery life and don't particularly care about having the highest performance or sharpest screen take a look at the Moto G7 Power. I have one and with light use it could last for 3 days on a single charge or all day if you literally use it constantly. It's also only $250 unlocked and supports all major carriers. Since it seems like you don't use your personal phone a lot you should also take this opportunity to look in to cheap prepaid providers. For example, if you only need voice and text service check out Tello (which runs on Sprint's network) who offer unlimited voice/text for only $6 per month, or $10 per month if you want to throw in 1GB data on top.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 14:58 |
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My friend had a Juke. He also had a Zune, so
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 15:12 |
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Mr.Radar posted:If you want a smartphone with (relatively) great battery life and don't particularly care about having the highest performance or sharpest screen take a look at the Moto G7 Power. I have one and with light use it could last for 3 days on a single charge or all day if you literally use it constantly. It's also only $250 unlocked and supports all major carriers. Thanks. I didn't realize there were options that cheap out there for prepaid plans.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 15:27 |
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Exit Strategy posted:If not an actual Space Cadet, it could've been a Symbolics Keyboard, which was the later iteration of the concept. If it was a Symbolics machine, it would have definitely had a mouse, and he says there was no mouse. Which is good, because if he threw out a Symbolics machine (instead of sending it to me) he's history's greatest monster. Note that the "graph" key may have simply been used to type additional characters, as in the AltGr key (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key), rather than some sort of graphing-specialized thing.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 15:50 |
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Lester Shy posted:Cell phone design peaked in 2007 and nothing can change my mind. I had a Rumor 2, and it was definitely my favorite phone. Having the internet in your pocket at all times is more cursed than blessed. The saddest tech day of my life was probably when that thing died and I was dragged kicking and screaming into the touch screen era.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 16:17 |
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eminkey2003 posted:My friend had a Juke. It was $20 as a prepaid phone from at&t so I could use it with my normal postpaid at&t account without extending my contract. It was great except that it turned out the buttons were too small for my fingers and I just couldn't enter phone numbers correctly on it to save my life. I ended up having to replace it with another dirt cheap prepaid phone that was a normal flipphone or something (and then I got an iphone in 2010). It was cool how tiny and light (75 grams compared to 163 for my current smartphone) it was, though, and I guess it was ahead of its time in terms of being a phone that's impossible to actually use for phone calls. mystes has a new favorite as of 16:33 on Aug 5, 2019 |
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wa27 posted:
I had the model before that the LG "V" Same idea only thicker. The V used mini-SD. I actually ripped some movies down to 320x240 (I think) to "watch" at work on that tiny rear end screen. My actual first phone was an Ericsson something or other that isn't on that chart, but I also had one of the first StarTacs, back when your phone folding was a big deal. Also, Nokia has re-released some of their old bangers: the 3310 and 8110. Not sure if they work on verizon though.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 16:32 |
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Peanut Butler posted:first was boring 2001 kyocera candybar- favorite of the end of that era was deffo the sony-ericsson walkman phone w350: I loved how small it was, back when we valued cellphones for being small. I'd set shortcuts for all my important contacts and barely ever had to slide the thing open. It lived in my bedside table drawer for a long time post-obsolescence to live its second life as a reliable music alarm clock. (My first cellphone was a 4 or something very much like it, though I don't remember a folding mouthpiece. It was a Motorola, square on the top and pointed on the bottom like a half-assed trapezoid. I had a protector for it that was essentially a thick plastic bag, molded to fit.) eta: I just learned that the W580i was in You Don't Mess with the Zohan AND Paul Blart: Mall Cop. Wow.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 16:38 |
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wa27 posted:
You're my dad when he had to lose his startac when Verizon shut down their analog network.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 17:13 |
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uli2000 posted:None of the above. Let me introduce you to the late Sony Zuma Before Sony got in bed with Ericsson, I think they used their own phone designers, borrowed from their quality radio division. Their stuff felt really good to the touch and I am not sure it has been surpassed since. Look at those buttons: straight off their high-end shortwave radios. The 'Mars Bar' phone - called cause it felt you were holding a satisfying chocolate bar in your hand and let's be honest, what's a better feeling than that?
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 17:23 |
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Just how much grime got in those sliding and rotating keyboards on those phones?
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 18:18 |
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Unperson_47 posted:Just how much grime got in those sliding and rotating keyboards on those phones? Plenty, especially if the phone was tumbling around in a purse.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 18:24 |
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This is my dad's current phone (Samsung Convoy). I took this pic 5 years ago after he had a house fire. It melted pretty bad and the outer screen is dead, but it still works fine. If Samsung had a museum, this should be in there like the Desert Storm Game Boy.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 18:34 |
Pham Nuwen posted:If it was a Symbolics machine, it would have definitely had a mouse, and he says there was no mouse. Which is good, because if he threw out a Symbolics machine (instead of sending it to me) he's history's greatest monster. is possible. I swear if there was some website that cataloged the various kinds of this stuff and actually showed the labels on the backs of the monitors and poo poo I would be able to figure out exactly what it was, or at least what part of it was. I swear there was a gorilla emblem on there somewhere and it was rad as heck Instead all I get are fuckin screenshots of custom nerd terminal emulator setups if it had a mouse there was no mouse included when I received it. wa27 posted:This is my dad's current phone (Samsung Convoy). I took this pic 5 years ago after he had a house fire. It melted pretty bad and the outer screen is dead, but it still works fine. If Samsung had a museum, this should be in there like the Desert Storm Game Boy. loving incredible that's awesome although it blows that's the way you guys found out about its durability
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 18:45 |
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Shut up Meg posted:Before Sony got in bed with Ericsson, I think they used their own phone designers, borrowed from their quality radio division. "CELLULAR TELEPHONE" said in that 1920s radio voice
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wa27 posted:This is my dad's current phone (Samsung Convoy). I took this pic 5 years ago after he had a house fire. It melted pretty bad and the outer screen is dead, but it still works fine. If Samsung had a museum, this should be in there like the Desert Storm Game Boy. Is it old enough that it's going to lose connection once 2G GSM shuts down this year?
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Is it old enough that it's going to lose connection once 2G GSM shuts down this year? Yeah I'm going to have to find him something else soon. Honestly I could see lots of outcry once the networks are turned off. Verizon hasn't sent out anything to me, my mom, or my dad to warn us of the shutoff. I found out earlier this year when I tried to activate an old phone on our business plan and found out you couldn't anymore. At this point in the year I would have expected texts, robocalls, and letters from Verizon saying "YOUR PHONE IS ABOUT TO STOP WORKING!", maybe with a coupon towards whatever their cheapest 4G flip phone is.
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Shibawanko posted:"CELLULAR TELEPHONE" said in that 1920s radio voice That's made me think a little: See the earpiece and how in one photo it is 1/4" higher up the phone than the other? Although there is are SEND and END buttons to make and end the call, you could also do it by sliding the earpiece up/down - mimicking the actions of a landline phone. I wonder if that was done to reduce the learning curve? Incidentally, the extendable aerial was completely fake and apparently, a lot of phones had fake ones too.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 20:21 |
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wa27 posted:Yeah I'm going to have to find him something else soon. We are a large corporate account with Verizon at work. And we have a small fleet of 2G only phones like the Convoys. Verizon hasn't mentioned anything about the shutdown to us yet. I only found out because they wouldn't let me activate a old 2G phone for a temporary backup a couple months ago. If they are going through with it, they sure as hell are not advertising it. And neither are their MVNOs.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 20:34 |
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wa27 posted:Work provides me with a smartphone so a flip-phone is all I need for my personal line. Unfortunately Verizon is shutting down CDMA at the end of the year so I'll have to get something else (any suggestions?)
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Shibawanko posted:"CELLULAR TELEPHONE" said in that 1920s radio voice Cellular Telephone! My baby loves her Cellular Telephone! Lets you talk anywhere! My baby is talking on it all day loooooooong. Thank you.
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