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.
Bring back sliders with full keyboards
Being back T9. I could text with it in my pocket.
I never saw one where the keys were big enough that I didn’t mash everything around the target key with the size of my fingers, and I really don’t have big hands or anything.
The size of the keys are not really the issue, the size of the spacing around them is.
The BlackBerry Curve has my favorite keyboard, and I DO have big hands!
I really want one, I hate virtual keyboards so much. There’s the f(x)tec phones but their keyboards come out in landscape mode and I’d really rather have one where it’s portrait like the Palm Pre
Is f(x)tec actually a thing? Like have they actually started shipping phones to customers?
Motorola DROID 4 was my dream phone. Alas, it was never released down here, so I could never buy one, even used.
I had an HTC Tilt back when the first iPhone was released. Aside from that phone running windows mobile (holy Christ, what a mess that was), I loved it so much. But then I finally joined the cult at the 3GS.
I miss those… ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ
my first smart phone was a Motorola Droid that had a physical keyboard. Cameras have come a long way.
motorola razr
I paid $400 for one of these brand new and it was ludicrous at the time. I thought it was super cool though.
So did I, and it was. Don’t let anyone tell you differently.
As a huge Formula 1 and Ferrari fan I had a Razr Maxx V6 Ferrari edition.
I still have my champagne Razr around here somewhere. It works, even looks pretty new.
Best phone ever. I read through whole libraries on that little thing, and it looks so futuristic (as long as you don’t look at the 500 pixel screen or the 140p camera)
Nokia 3310
This was mine, which I used from 2001 until 2011. I loved that phone
I adored that phone!! I still miss the interchangeable covers instead of adding a stupid case to the phone. I had a few cases I could swap depending on my outfit or the occasion. I wish new phones would adopt a similar idea instead of having to add an extra cover on top of the phone. I don’t need it to look good under the cover. Just make the outside looks nice.
I always liked the color.
I had a pink Moto SLVR L7
I had the same model but in black. I still have it somewhere.
Same! I’m pretty sure that was also my smallest phone, before they started going the other direction.
A Nokia 3100 … it was the first phone I bought, and I kept it through college and beyond.
The thing was a beast :-)
128x128 pixel screen, with 12-bit RGB. No WiFi, no Bluetooth. Had some web access with WAP (no not that! “Wireless Access Protocol”). It did have a camera module though /rofl
And best of all, the battery lasted a week!
I always thought this was such a cute phone
I wish phones would go back to being unique. I want a slider with a physical keyboard (like the HTC EVO Shift). My Pixel 6 Pros battery is showing wear already but there’s nothing on the market I feel is worth switching to.
Just wish modern devices still had easily removable back covers without needing pry tools and hair dryers.
I loved the early galaxies and the zero lemon batteries. They were ridiculously cheap, so you could have like 3 charged at any time. Then if you ever got robbed you could just say “e-waste!” And toss a dead battery at your assailants eyes.
Motorola Razr babyyyyy
I had this sick LG car phone and it made vroom vroom sounds. Used it for a decade and I still have it and it still works.
This isn’t my hand but I had this lovely bastard:
I used to be able to chuck it down the stairs and everything.
Haha! This! I still have mine in my treasure box of 1990s-2010s tech, with my iPod and my green Gameboy pocket.
My “iPod Classic”, for all its faults, had survived going under a bus’s wheel unscathed and falling off my bike at speed a few times before I finally consigned it to the box of electronic stuff I wasn’t going to take with me when I emigrated three years ago. The Gameboy colour’s in the cupboard as I type! I might even bring it with me when society collapses and I have to forage.
I would not call these on the picture “dumb phones” though.
I had a Motorola phone. I actually liked it because it had a really good camera. The native photo editor was also top notch at the time.
They were called “feature phones” at the time.
SonyEricsson w810i. It was a great phone and an upgrade from my earlier SonyEricsson T610. The w810i is in my bedroom drawer.
I got the first Android smart phone after those (G1/Dream) which I still have in my kitchen drawer.
Happy memories texting my mates in uni. God so much has changed in 20yrs. 😱
The w810i was my first ever mobile phone and also my last dumb phone. I used it for 9 years.
I used it for 9 years.
Exactly - phones used to last! I also dropped my w810i a few times but it never broke. Great little phone. In fact I’m gonna charge mine to have a play on it. I think it had an MP3 player too!
It was still working back then, I changed because i was getting tired of typing on the small keys. I could type without looking, this was pretty cool ! All of the key had worn off anyway 😂
Mine was Sony Ericsson V630.
It endured me untill 2012 when I exchanged it for Sony Xperia T, it’s second best phone I had.
A other happy v630i user here. Don’t know how many years I spent all in all, but I used it for everything. Even remember loading some books as text files, and reading quite a lot on its tiny screen during the longer bus rides.
Does BlackBerry count as a dumb phone? I have a hard time calling it a smart phone.
I had the Envy 2, the last phone I had with an actual physical keyboard.
It’s the one feature I miss the most. If I could have smartphone functionality with a physical keyboard I would be much happier.
I think about this all the time. I’ll give up being waterproof for a full-sized slide-out keyboard.
