|
I had a SonyEricsson T300 that you could buy that weird camera add on for, so this was a couple of years before a lovely VGA phone camera became standard. Never did get it because it was terrible but somehow it was still really cool that it even existed. I'm kinda in two minds about early phone cameras because when they became a thing, everyone stopped bringing digital cameras to parties. The years 2005 to about 2013 (when phone cameras finally got a bit better) that contained some of the most fun moments of my life are only documented in lovely resolution phone camera pics taken in too low lighting to often even make out people's faces.
|
#
?
Nov 20, 2023 13:52
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 27, 2024 08:36 |
|
|
Unperson_47 posted:I've never heard of fuboTV so I looked it up and it's described as an "over-the-top" (?) television provider. Had not heard of that term before for internet streaming. OTT is a very common older term for streaming as it goes over the top of the normal internet I've been working in teams looking after various OTT propositions since about 2014
|
|
#
?
Nov 20, 2023 14:10
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
Nov 20, 2023 14:39
|
|
|
barbecue at the folks posted:I had a SonyEricsson T300 that you could buy that weird camera add on for, so this was a couple of years before a lovely VGA phone camera became standard. Never did get it because it was terrible but somehow it was still really cool that it even existed. I had it for the aforementioned T68. It could hold 5 pictures. If only I had someone, anyone that also could receive MMS back then...They were all normies with dumb candybars then. Reminds me of when I got my P910i and was bluebombing goatse etc to anyone and everyone at the nightclubs that had Bluetooth open.
|
|
#
?
Nov 20, 2023 15:01
|
|
|
barbecue at the folks posted:I had a SonyEricsson T300 that you could buy that weird camera add on for, so this was a couple of years before a lovely VGA phone camera became standard. Never did get it because it was terrible but somehow it was still really cool that it even existed. That reminds me of VERY early smartphones (like, early Windows Mobile days) with SDIO cards. No wifi on the phone? Don't worry, but a wifi SDIO card! Oh, you want a camera? Get a camera SDIO card! But yes, that means you won't have wifi while you use it...or a decent amount of storage for the photos, either, unless the camera card also has some storage built-in. I don't think they were ever that popular/used much because even before the "modern" (post iPhone) smartphone era, camera, wifi, Bluetooth, etc.. was eventually all able to get integrated into the phone.
|
|
#
?
Nov 20, 2023 15:10
|
|
|
https://i.imgur.com/nWFKUOo.mp4 Sweet caculator
|
|
#
?
Nov 20, 2023 16:32
|
|
|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W1t2_EJG9w
|
|
#
?
Nov 20, 2023 18:30
|
|
|
GreenNight posted:https://i.imgur.com/nWFKUOo.mp4 Glorious. Do you know where it was made?
|
|
#
?
Nov 20, 2023 19:08
|
|
|
Arsenic Lupin posted:Glorious. Do you know where it was made? I don't know for sure, but since it looks like some laser cut balsa, it might just be available as a couple of sheets of punchouts online on etsy or something.
|
|
#
?
Nov 20, 2023 19:16
|
|
|
Searching the STEM LAB logo on the product led me to this: https://ugears.us/products/ugears-stem-lab-arithmetic-kit
|
|
#
?
Nov 20, 2023 19:40
|
|
|
GreenNight posted:https://i.imgur.com/nWFKUOo.mp4 the Soviets just used a slide rule
|
|
#
?
Nov 20, 2023 20:30
|
|
|
My dealer sent me some freebies, a few HDDVDs and 6 VCDs. Had to laugh that Ben Hur spans 4CDs and Deep Impact is apparently 'Betacam Quality' Hmm turns out it was a thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVHgxMTH1DU Humphreys has a new favorite as of 05:10 on Dec 1, 2023 |
|
#
?
Dec 1, 2023 05:05
|
|
|
From 2084 but already obsolete.  https://twitter.com/RetroTechDreams/status/1731675762212684189?s=20
|
|
#
?
Dec 4, 2023 18:32
|
|
|
Still stylish and looks like it would work great as a shield or blunt weapon.
|
|
#
?
Dec 4, 2023 19:00
|
|
|
Dick Trauma posted:From 2084 but already obsolete. Very cassette futurism, love that aesthetic.
|
|
#
?
Dec 5, 2023 11:05
|
|
|
i tried to figure out how to diy a datassette mechanism completely from scratch it has not been going well. found what i think is still a company that sells brand new old stock read and record heads. their catalogue has a bibliography. it does not have pricing.
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2023 18:42
|
|
|
Sentient Data posted:I loved my samsung juke, especially the fact that it was a bluetooth mp3 player that was about the size of an ipod shuffle long before bluetooth mp3 was common. If there were a version that could run on modern cell networks I'd probably still be rocking it today My friend had this exact phone, and I'm pretty sure that she'd still use it if she could. I honestly kinda miss feature phones; there's definitely a time when I wish I could leave my full smartphone at home and just have a small subset of abilities. I keep thinking about buying a modded iPod, too.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2023 04:28
|
|
|
Sentient Data posted:I loved my samsung juke, especially the fact that it was a bluetooth mp3 player that was about the size of an ipod shuffle long before bluetooth mp3 was common. If there were a version that could run on modern cell networks I'd probably still be rocking it today all i can see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReViWyOZg3Y
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2023 05:35
|
|
|
Great, now I want to set a ringtone on a phone I haven't had for years vvv: I feel like only a few dozen people in the world even know that existed, neat to run into another! Sentient Data has a new favorite as of 06:30 on Dec 11, 2023 |
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2023 05:41
|
|
|
Sentient Data posted:Also that Ericsson keyboard was the exact model to buy and then solder a different connector to in order to use with the gp32 I had my eyes on this back in the day because I played a lot of AtariST games on my GP32 and the OSK was a hassle, though I forget whether the emulator even supported it.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2023 05:46
|
|
|
Neito posted:My friend had this exact phone, and I'm pretty sure that she'd still use it if she could. The days of Feature Phones were amazing. You could be at a party and no one around you had the same boring slab of glass.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2023 10:05
|
|
|
I loved my last feature phone, it was a Samsung phone that flipped both vertically and horizontally, good for calls and texting, but had E-ink buttons so the button labels changed depending on whether you were vertical or horizontal. You might think the flip mechanism would be delicate or janky, but it felt super solid and never gave me any problems at all. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alias2-keyboard.jpg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alias2-open.jpg
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2023 17:51
|
|
|
JnnyThndrs posted:I loved my last feature phone, it was a Samsung phone that flipped both vertically and horizontally, good for calls and texting, but had E-ink buttons so the button labels changed depending on whether you were vertical or horizontal. You might think the flip mechanism would be delicate or janky, but it felt super solid and never gave me any problems at all. That reminds me I had an Alias 1 that was my phone all through high school and most of college. Loved that thing even if the buttons were tiny and hard to press with my giant sausage fingers.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2023 17:58
|
|
|
Humphreys posted:The days of Feature Phones were amazing. You could be at a party and no one around you had the same boring slab of glass. also you'd never know because why would you have your phone out at a party?
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2023 18:04
|
|
|
JnnyThndrs posted:I loved my last feature phone, it was a Samsung phone that flipped both vertically and horizontally, good for calls and texting, but had E-ink buttons so the button labels changed depending on whether you were vertical or horizontal. You might think the flip mechanism would be delicate or janky, but it felt super solid and never gave me any problems at all. That's wildly kickass, and the kind of tech we deserve in this hellish world, not the boring samey slabs of glass as someone else mentioned
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2023 18:23
|
|
|
The Razr was the best phone I ever owned.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2023 18:24
|
|
|
Desert Bus posted:The Razr was the best phone I ever owned. The itunes phone was better. No flip*, but you got itunes and some sweet mini?micro?-usb headphones. *Losing out on the ability to slam your phone shut dramatically is definitely worth not having to worry about cracked hinges and hosed display cables
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2023 18:42
|
|
|
I am not a big fan of moving parts but the Razr did not stop functioning until I bent it about 45degrees past what the hinge would support when opening. I was curious and had a new phone to why not?
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2023 18:52
|
|
|
Desert Bus posted:I am not a big fan of moving parts but the Razr did not stop functioning until I bent it about 45degrees past what the hinge would support when opening. I was curious and had a new phone to why not? I kept my v3m until it became completely unusable after Alltel phones were no longer allowed on Verizon's network. I was on my Droid by that point, which was incredibly overbuild and awesome.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2023 20:43
|
|
|
Arrath posted:That's wildly kickass, and the kind of tech we deserve in this hellish world, not the boring samey slabs of glass as someone else mentioned If someone came out with a similar thing today, with a larger screen and modern processor, I’d wave fistfuls of money at them like the Phillip Fry image. I don’t care that it would be thicker and the usable screen area would be smaller than the current norm.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2023 21:50
|
|
|
Explosionface posted:I kept my v3m until it became completely unusable after Alltel phones were no longer allowed on Verizon's network. I was on my Droid by that point, which was incredibly overbuild and awesome. The drat thing was slim and small and built like a tank. The plastic broke long before it stopped working.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2023 22:02
|
|
|
I’m solid with the iOS keyboard, especially now that autocorrect has improved, but my world for a physical keyboard. Maybe not T9 again, but let me press button.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2023 22:12
|
|
|
Desert Bus posted:The Razr was the best phone I ever owned. I worked for T-Mobile from 2004-2008 and the RAZR was by far the worst phone we ever sold, and the absolute most successful. The phone was technically a complete piece of poo poo; it was fragile as gently caress, the screen resolution was garbage, to compensate for its super thin thing it was half as powerful as anything comparably expensive. It was prone to randomly breaking for all sorts of reasons (temperature was a real problem; if you happened to bring it to a place that's too cold or to a place that's too warm it would cause a weird effect that made it look like the screen was leaking). When your RAZR randomly broke, it was hard to get T-Mobile to replace it, because the "liquid damage indicators" in the RAZR would just fuckin trigger for some reason, even when there was no actual water damage, so out of the thousands and thousands of people who needed to have their RAZRs replaced every single day, a ton of them were getting hit with huge restocking fees. In the summer after the RAZR launched, the call volume in the call centers went up so high that we had to have a huge nationwide hiring thing to keep up with the demand. The RAZR was on every metric a awful awful awful phone that performed lovely, broke easily, but until the iPhone it was the phone everyone had to have. From a consumer standpoint I think the RAZR was just the cool trendy phone, but inside the industry it was a goddamn nightmare. Everything we did was suddenly focused around fixing RAZR issues instead of all the other stuff we normally did during the day. Anecdotally, when the RAZR was announced we all dreaded it because Motorola, especially at that time, was known for making really really really fragile phones that were full of problems and prone to breaking, and hearing they were making "the world's most fragile phone" just made us all dread it. Sometimes Motorola would come in and give every "high performing representative" gifts, of which I was one, and every time they were things that just hilariously broke. They gave me a really nice pen that immediately started leaking. They gave us graphing calculators (we sure didn't have a need for graphing calculators) that snapped into two if they were dropped. They gave me a squeeze doll thing once that exploded and its fuckin weird neon guts went all over me while I was on a call. credburn has a new favorite as of 23:18 on Dec 11, 2023 |
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2023 23:14
|
|
|
credburn posted:I worked for T-Mobile from 2004-2008 and the RAZR was by far the worst phone we ever sold, and the absolute most successful. The phone was technically a complete piece of poo poo; it was fragile as gently caress, the screen resolution was garbage, to compensate for its super thin thing it was half as powerful as anything comparably expensive. It was prone to randomly breaking for all sorts of reasons (temperature was a real problem; if you happened to bring it to a place that's too cold or to a place that's too warm it would cause a weird effect that made it look like the screen was leaking). When your RAZR randomly broke, it was hard to get T-Mobile to replace it, because the "liquid damage indicators" in the RAZR would just fuckin trigger for some reason, even when there was no actual water damage, so out of the thousands and thousands of people who needed to have their RAZRs replaced every single day, a ton of them were getting hit with huge restocking fees. In the summer after the RAZR launched, the call volume in the call centers went up so high that we had to have a huge nationwide hiring thing to keep up with the demand. It was rock solid for me and when I was done with it I forced it out of spec to see what would happen and it just. would. not. die.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2023 23:33
|
|
|
I'LL HAV 2 TXT U L8TR I RAN IN TO A POLE AND SCRATCHED MY RAZR
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2023 00:28
|
|
|
wesleywillis posted:I'LL HAV 2 TXT U L8TR I RAN IN TO A POLE AND SCRATCHED MY RAZR Wow that brings back forum memories. Someone had that as redtext but it was I DROVE INTO A DAYCARE AND.
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2023 00:43
|
|
|
Weatherman posted:Wow that brings back forum memories. Someone had that as redtext but it was I DROVE INTO A DAYCARE AND. dietcokefiend. Still has it, too, but hasn't posted in half a decade. dietcokefiend posted:Its the Christmas Star leading Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem.
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2023 02:15
|
|
|
Hahahaa I love these forums more than my grandchildren.
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2023 06:53
|
|
|
There were multiple people I was in school with who managed to break their RAZR in two, so they couldn't text and had to take all their calls on speaker.
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2023 07:25
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 27, 2024 08:36 |
|
|
The Razr was also a bit of an American phenomenon- it was for sale over in Norway, but I don't think I knew anyone who had one.
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2023 10:50
|
|
