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Pham Nuwen posted:also you'd never know because why would you have your phone out at a party? Well, maybe that was you, but I was getting chicks MSN Messenger deets.
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Big Mac posted: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. The original sidetalking.
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I had a RAZR with a sweet dragon on it, the peak of my coolness...
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i had a RAZR for like, a year and what really stuck out was how there was no snake for it and the sound quality on phone calls was pretty dogshit compared to other phones of the time. also the vibration was weak as hell, you couldnt even make that thing fall off a table it broke when i dropped it in a toilet so i went back to some old b&w nokia which suited my needs
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Computer viking posted: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. I've seen exactly one, and that was in Honningsvåg of all places! Everyone in Norway had Ericsson or Nokia phones in the mid-late 90s/early 00s, and Motorola had just a tiny bit of the market. Their biggest hit was probably the Star-Tac, and that was expensive as poo poo if I remember correctly.
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Weird Pumpkin posted:I had a RAZR with a sweet dragon on it, the peak of my coolness... You reminded me that the Tribal Tattoo Gameboy Advance SP was a real product:   The Aughts were an... Interesting time.
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Weatherman posted:Wow that brings back forum memories. Someone had that as redtext but it was I DROVE INTO A DAYCARE AND. Drove in to a pole didn't quite fave the right ring to it but I couldn't remember.
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DrBouvenstein posted:You reminded me that the Tribal Tattoo Gameboy Advance SP was a real product:  (pictured next to my Japanese PSP-3000, which I really should've cleaned beforehand) The properly backlit AGS-101 model of the GBA SP got an extremely limited release in Europe in 2005 (slightly less limited in North America), so when I learned of its existence some years later and went hunting for one, the least overpriced one I could find was this tribal tattoo monstrosity. Of course, the original frontlit AGS-001 SP was also available in this... style... so not all of these have the brighter AGS-101 screen. DMorbid has a new favorite as of 20:58 on Dec 12, 2023 |
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GBA-punk. pearl blue 4 life
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Desert Bus posted: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. I think it also depended on exactly which version you had. Any v1 or v2 wasn't great. v3m was amazing and then by the end, the v3a was a hugely cheaped-out version that wasn't as great.
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Big Mac posted: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. lmao I really liked my razr, I don't remember thinking it felt cheap but it was a long rear end time ago the aesthetic of it was great, and flipping a phone open is a statement
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It was nice to close the phone to hang up. I hate fiddling for the end call button.
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Sir Mat of Dickie posted:It was nice to close the phone to hang up. I hate fiddling for the end call button. When I was a kid, I was once told it was rude to hang the phone up like that, and it caused a lifelong habit of always hanging up by pressing gently down on the thingy with my finger first. I never got to experience the feeling of hanging up the phone properly without it being accompanied by crippling guilt 
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angrily slamming my finger onto a touchscreen does not have the same satisfaction as slamming a handset or, to a lesser extent, clapping a flipfone shut e. speaking of, how are the new razrs / bendy flippy samsung phones? I cannot fathom how the screens in those are able to bend and last any amount of time Code Jockey has a new favorite as of 23:18 on Dec 12, 2023 |
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Gonna make an app that plays a loud phone slamming sound whenever you click end call
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Code Jockey posted:angrily slamming my finger onto a touchscreen does not have the same satisfaction as slamming a handset or, to a lesser extent, clapping a flipfone shut Where there's a will, there's a way 
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Code Jockey posted:e. speaking of, how are the new razrs / bendy flippy samsung phones? I cannot fathom how the screens in those are able to bend and last any amount of time I think generally they don't, which is a feature cos then you have to buy a new one.
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Code Jockey posted:e. speaking of, how are the new razrs / bendy flippy samsung phones? I cannot fathom how the screens in those are able to bend and last any amount of time I've only had my new Razr about a week, but I can say answering/hanging up by opening/closing it feels just as good as ever.
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I do 5-10 calls a month maybe, don't really hang up that much. Since text and email came around, phone calls have been the obsolete tech for me
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Explosionface posted:I think it also depended on exactly which version you had. Any v1 or v2 wasn't great. v3m was amazing and then by the end, the v3a was a hugely cheaped-out version that wasn't as great. Yeah, my partner and I had good luck with our Razrs , but they were V3m’s.
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Code Jockey posted:angrily slamming my finger onto a touchscreen does not have the same satisfaction as slamming a handset or, to a lesser extent, clapping a flipfone shut I watch Mr. Mobile on YouTube because I'm a consumer whore, and he has done reviews on all the Samsungs and lots of other foldables. Every single one develops creases, delaminates the layers, splits, cracks or gets dust and dirt inside places where you can't get it out.
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evobatman posted:Every single one develops creases, delaminates the layers, splits, cracks or gets dust and dirt inside places where you can't get it out. Finally a phone I can relate to
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evobatman posted:I watch Mr. Mobile on YouTube because I'm a consumer whore, and he has done reviews on all the Samsungs and lots of other foldables. Every single one develops creases, delaminates the layers, splits, cracks or gets dust and dirt inside places where you can't get it out. It's good to know my initial gut feeling of "That seems... bad" when I saw them was right. Just because you can make phones with screens that can bend 180 degrees doesn't mean you should.
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Randalor posted:It's good to know my initial gut feeling of "That seems... bad" when I saw them was right. Just because you can make phones with screens that can bend 180 degrees doesn't mean you should. well, screens that bend 180 degrees, until they start to come apart I guess lol e. like for real I saw the bendy samsung commercials and was like "we cannot have that technology yet"
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Randalor posted:It's good to know my initial gut feeling of "That seems... bad" when I saw them was right. Just because you can make phones with screens that can bend 180 degrees doesn't mean you should. Reminds me of the slider phones with the mini keyboards - I had one back like 15+ years ago, it lasted about a year before the slider contacts bit the dust. After that the screen went completely white & it was totally unusable. Fun idea in theory but needed to be way more robust in practice.
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evobatman posted:I've seen exactly one, and that was in Honningsvåg of all places! Yah, I didn't get a smartphone until like 2015 or something; old Nokia until then.
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Reminds me of the slider phones with the mini keyboards - I had one back like 15+ years ago, it lasted about a year before the slider contacts bit the dust. After that the screen went completely white & it was totally unusable. Fun idea in theory but needed to be way more robust in practice. I really liked the tiny Kyocera slider I had, but I don't remember how long I had it. 1-2 years, probably.
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Groke posted:Yah, I didn't get a smartphone until like 2015 or something; old Nokia until then. I picked up a HTC Hero in 2009, so it's not like we were all feature phone holdouts - but I was coming from a SonyEricsson brick with 2g and Opera Mini and wanted to test having a way larger screen for my (exotic! expensive! slow!) mobile browsing. I do sometimes miss the scroll wheel on that thing.
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Code Jockey posted:angrily slamming my finger onto a touchscreen does not have the same satisfaction as slamming a handset or, to a lesser extent, clapping a flipfone shut The screens are fine. Will they last 20 years? No, but neither will any other smart phone. The problem (for me at least, I had a ZFlip 3 5G), was that the screen protector they have on it will over time either delaminate or crack where the crease is. You either need to replace it yourself or pay 100 bucks to get someone else to replace the screen protector. Some people just fully remove it, but the screen itself is plastic, so it will scratch without the protector. But the screen itself bends just fine, no real issues. My only big issue was that I accidentally dropped my phone and something jabbed the screen and there's a permanent green spot there now. It was a fun gimmick but I went back to a normal smart phone.
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My problem with the bendy phones is that they're like $1200, right? that's too much goddamn money for a cell phone
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My LG Rumor Plus lasted I think like 6 years and drat I loved that thing. The physical keyboard was such a step up from the Nokia flipphone I was using in loving 2010
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Do the fold phones work as a scroll without getting ruined Can I roll up my phone and put it in a scroll case like a loving mage of old (toilet paper tube) (to match my robe and wizard hat? ))
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I liked my old phone that had the hinge out key board. It was much nicer to type on and nicer to hold for horizontal viewing too. The screens did keep dying unfortunately.
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SniperWoreConverse posted:Do the fold phones work as a scroll without getting ruined We aren't to that point yet. Maybe never unless batteries go crazy with the cheese whiz.
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Pham Nuwen posted:My problem with the bendy phones is that they're like $1200, right? that's too much goddamn money for a cell phone The latest Motorola Razr folding smartphone is available in a variant that's $700 MSRP, $500 unlocked on sale, and as low as $200 if you buy it locked to Boost Mobile. Of course that variant is also cut down to Moto G specs or lower in basically every respect that is not "has a folding screen" in order to hit that price point... Mr.Radar has a new favorite as of 23:14 on Dec 13, 2023 |
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700 is still too much for a gimmick phone that'll break in six months.
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Kwyndig posted:700 is still too much for a gimmick phone that'll break in six months. That sounds like something the warranty and/or consumer protection law where you live should absolutely cover. Of course that doesn't make it any less stressful to sort out. On a related note, why is migrating from one android phone to another still so bad? Even Samsung to Samsung it's hit/miss what carries over, and heaven help you if you have to rely on cloud backups instead of a direct transfer.
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This is a delightfully charming educational film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYocptzXTnI I especially appreciate the bit from roughly 6:00 to 7:30 and again from 14:00 to 15:00 where they emphasize how much control advertisers have over the content on radio and the corrosive effect it has on the programs (the more things change...). And then there's bit at 9:00 where they complain about how much air time is devoted to playing prerecorded music, if only they could have a crystal ball and see that not only would that become the dominant format of radio broadcasting but that even the DJs would be automated out of existence 
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My favorite radio station still has DJs during the day but I don't listen at night so I don't know about after that. It goes morning show then the hosts of the morning show swap DJ duties throughout the day. But then they're not big corporate radio, so they do things differently and on a shoestring budget.
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