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Shampoo posted:You answered your own question. Government loves blackberries A: because they invested in the BES back when it was The Thing and B: they hate hate hate change. It's just like that vast number of companies that were still using Windows XP. Then Microsoft pulled to rug on them and gave them x number of months till XP would no longer be receiving security updates. That was a panic for them.
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WebDog posted:I kind of miss the days of Nokia's devil may care insanity with their designs. If there was a niche, they attempted to capture it in any way. First phone was the 3310 which was just a fantastic testament to well built design and then the "Navigator" slide phone which I still have sitting around and likely still works fantastically. The navigator had a great form factor actually and the usability was just super nice. Its drat amazing just how much Apple killed Nokia post Iphone release considering Nokia was THE phone manufacturer for a solid decade. Had they jumped on board to the Android uprising from the get go instead of stubbornly trying to make Symbian a relevant OS they might have taken the spot that Samsung currently holds.
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Nutsngum posted:First phone was the 3310 which was just a fantastic testament to well built design and then the "Navigator" slide phone which I still have sitting around and likely still works fantastically. The navigator had a great form factor actually and the usability was just super nice. Yeah, but Android was Not Invented Here™.
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Aug 5, 2015 19:18
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Instant Sunrise posted:Yeah, but Android was Not Invented Here™. They also had Maemo Smart Phone OS which was supposed to be pretty good so they killed it. They decided their future lie with Windows Mobile or whatever the MS OS is for phones, thanks to the new CEO.
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Aug 5, 2015 19:33
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flosofl posted:They also had Maemo Smart Phone OS which was supposed to be pretty good so they killed it. They decided their future lie with Windows Mobile or whatever the MS OS is for phones, thanks to the new CEO. It's called Tizen now. Or Sailfish. Or Nemo Mobile.
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Aug 5, 2015 20:55
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If I remember correctly, my first phone was a silver Motorola Razr back in 2006 or 2007 when I was a freshman or sophomore in high school. After it ran through the washing machine, I got a MetroPCS Huawei M750 around late 2008 or early 2009? It was my first touchscreen device (accompanied by an iPod Classic for music) and within about two years the touchscreen and buttons had broken until the phone was nearly useless....through regular use. In the spring of 2011 I got my first iPhone and never looked back.
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Aug 5, 2015 21:04
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Early smartphones were so odd sometimes. I had a HTC Windows Phone 6 that was pretty cool for the time - but it didn't have a headphone jack. Instead you had to plug in an adapter. It was a brick of a phone, putting in a headphone jack wouldn't have added any bulk or even extra cost. The only other phone since then that I've seen without a headphone jack was that WebOS phone that was literally too small to even have microUSB.
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Aug 5, 2015 21:17
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Jeez I feel like I missed out growing up. My first cell phone I got when I was... 18? 19? and it was a Razr V3. As soon as it broke I bought an iPhone and have had one since the 3GS, aside from a year where I made the very poor choice of getting a Nexus 5.
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Aug 5, 2015 21:44
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robodex posted:Jeez I feel like I missed out growing up. My first cell phone I got when I was... 18? 19? and it was a Razr V3. As soon as it broke I bought an iPhone and have had one since the 3GS, aside from a year where I made the very poor choice of getting a Nexus 5. I think mine was the Razr V3i, going by pictures.
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Aug 5, 2015 22:14
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My first phone which I got when I was 15 I only knew one other kid my age with a mobile (a Nokia 6110) and a handful that had pagers. Other pre-iPhone era phones I had were: - Nokia 3310 - Nokia 8310 - Sony Ericsson T68i (First colour mobile) - Nokia 7210 - Samsung C100 - LG U8120 (First phone to be launched on the 3 network in the UK, it was garbage as was the network, only had it for a week) - Nokia 6230 - Motorola V635 - Motorola KRZR K1 beato has a new favorite as of 22:51 on Aug 5, 2015 |
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Aug 5, 2015 22:43
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I've probably had so few phones because I didn't become old enough to be trusted with one until about a year before the first generation iPhone was announced. I went through high school with the same styles of cell phone everyone but the richest kids had, and basically right after I graduated smartphones became the new standard.
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Aug 5, 2015 23:16
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robodex posted:...aside from a year where I made the very poor choice of getting a Nexus 5. ...should've waited... 
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Aug 5, 2015 23:59
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Used to rock this bad boy for a little while mid last decade:
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Aug 6, 2015 00:17
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Last Chance posted:Used to rock this bad boy for a little while mid last decade: I remember those mall kiosks that were nothing but 100s of faceplates for this model.
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Aug 6, 2015 01:28
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huh... its like the thread devoted to several closets in my house... and pgabz is in here too? 
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Lincoln posted:...should've waited...
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sinking belle posted:I want a phone that won't die on me after four years, fucker. I want more phone.
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Aug 6, 2015 02:56
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sinking belle posted:I want a phone that won't die on me after four years, fucker. Eh, any phone I'm likely to buy in four years will be so much better than what I've got now that it'll be hard to get too upset about needing a replacement.
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Aug 6, 2015 03:01
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This stupid piece of poo poo. I'll never understand why they were so popular for a brief time. Cheap trash plastic, that idiotic antenna design that broke off within weeks. Back around 2000 I was working for a cell company down in Florida doing equipment installs, a few guys had these. One day at a picnic type deal for everyone I saw a guy drop his dumb startac from waist-height onto a concrete floor, the thing practically exploded into components and plastic shards. Meanwhile I dropped my Ericsson brick once, and all that happened is the battery fell off.
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Aug 6, 2015 03:03
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Samizdata posted:I want more phone. "The LCD screen that burns twice as bright burns half as long" 
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Aug 6, 2015 03:05
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Last Chance posted:Used to rock this bad boy for a little while mid last decade: This was my first phone. My mother handed it down when she upgraded. The thing was a beast and I had it for years, only replacing it when I wanted a phone with a camera and got a Nokia 3200. I really hated the downgrade in reception with switching to an internal antenna. Now I don't even give a poo poo about phone reception, I buy mobiles to be a pocket computer that can make calls if I absolutely have to. cobalt impurity has a new favorite as of 03:31 on Aug 6, 2015 |
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Aug 6, 2015 03:18
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Enos Shenk posted:This stupid piece of poo poo. I had a MICROTac, which was somehow about 3x thicker than that one. I think I still have it in the original box. E: it had a 1-line screen
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Aug 6, 2015 03:21
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It may not have been a Motorola, but it was quite similar to this: It plugged into the power outlet of your car.
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Aug 6, 2015 03:25
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WebDog posted:"The LCD screen that burns twice as bright burns half as long" I've... texted things... you people wouldn't believe.
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I have no idea what the name of our first "family" cell phone was, I'll have to ask; all I know is we had a house phone and a cell phone for when we all went out together. We would have got this in like 1999-2000. At some point the 5 key fell off so if you needed to dial anything with that number you had to hope one of your fingernails was long enough to reach into the contact area- my sister and I, being children, were beneficial for this activity as our fingers were small enough to just reach to the contact, fingernail or no  The phone didn't have text capability so that wans't a problem. I used to steal the family cell phone, hide somehwere in the house, and prank call our own house, with the cell phone. A true American badass, I was
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RC and Moon Pie posted:It may not have been a Motorola, but it was quite similar to this:
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sweeperbravo posted:I have no idea what the name of our first "family" cell phone was, I'll have to ask; all I know is we had a house phone and a cell phone for when we all went out together. We would have got this in like 1999-2000. At some point the 5 key fell off so if you needed to dial anything with that number you had to hope one of your fingernails was long enough to reach into the contact area- my sister and I, being children, were beneficial for this activity as our fingers were small enough to just reach to the contact, fingernail or no I think my mom had a cell phone before I ever did, but I can't remember. I do remember that we both had Motorola Razr V3i's (mine silver and hers pink) when I got my first phone in high school. We still used our house phone all the way until maybe 2008, when it was replaced and we got a new number. From that point on, our house phone was only there as a technicality because it was mandatory for our internet service agreement and the number was never given to anyone. The battery would have been long dead if it were ever taken off the stand.
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I love smart phones but some of them are so loving fragile. I dropped my LG Tribute about 3 feet and the screen shattered, it's only about 6 months old too. The phone it replaced was a Samsung Galaxy Victory that also died of impact damage, but that was after multiple daily drops in the hospital for like two weeks. And the screen was still fine, something inside got jacked so calling no longer worked. Before that I had a Samsung Intercept with the slide out keyboard which was similarly resilient. Before that I had an old The V feature phone that flipped open to reveal the keyboard.
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sweeperbravo posted:I mean I think I could get used to a touchscreen and would like having the option for, say, selecting items on the screen/playing games and poo poo. But texting is what I primarily use a phone for, so having to handicap myself on that for a while seems like a bummer. There are smartphone cases that have slide-out keyboards. I don’t know if they’re any good, but it might be worth looking into.
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If we're talking old phones, I miss my old LG Chocolate slider phone sometimes. Total garbage by today's standards, and I think even when it was relevant, it was more about style than being about performance. I just really liked the slide out motion on it, and I beat the hell out of it without ever using a case and it never failed. Even had it fall out of my pocket in a bar parking lot one night, sit out on the ground totally exposed while it rained all night, and when I went back the next day, it was perfectly fine still.
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peter gabriel posted:I didn't have a mobile from 2000 - about 2010 out of choice so I get what you are saying, i was basically forced into it because of work. A solid majority of the time I use on mine is in the Awful app.
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beato posted:My first phone which I got when I was 15 I only knew one other kid my age with a mobile (a Nokia 6110) and a handful that had pagers. My similar Ericsson came with two batteries. If you used the slim battery, it would only last half a day If you used the thick battery, it would last until the end of the day. But it was too big to fit in your pocket.
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flosofl posted:I remember those mall kiosks that were nothing but 100s of faceplates for this model. Oh, they still exist, but now they just sell iPhone cases. On that topic, how did people carry around those big old phones? I never really had a problem with flip phones because I went through a baggy pants phase, but now I even have trouble cramming an iPhone in an Otterbox into my somewhat-tight jeans.
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Coffee And Pie posted:Oh, they still exist, but now they just sell iPhone cases. We had belt cases. titties has a new favorite as of 11:25 on Aug 6, 2015 |
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Aug 6, 2015 11:22
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titties posted:We had belt cases. The horror.
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titties posted:We had belt cases. and people knew we were serious businessmen because of it
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Woolie Wool posted:Did he ever do an A/T thread? Yeah, a long time ago. Well, to be fair it was more of a stories thread where I had crudely illustrated some tales in MSPaint about some of the raids I and colleagues had gone on. It's been a few years, maybe I should bust out my terrible drawing skills and do an update.
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WebDog posted:I kind of miss the days of Nokia's devil may care insanity with their designs. If there was a niche, they attempted to capture it in any way.  That phone is amazing.It's all    over just a phone call.
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themachine posted:If we're talking old phones, I miss my old LG Chocolate slider phone sometimes. Total garbage by today's standards, and I think even when it was relevant, it was more about style than being about performance. I just really liked the slide out motion on it, and I beat the hell out of it without ever using a case and it never failed. Even had it fall out of my pocket in a bar parking lot one night, sit out on the ground totally exposed while it rained all night, and when I went back the next day, it was perfectly fine still. A friend of mine had 2 of these, and slid both of them apart when opening them. Then she got a Motorola Juke 
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Coffee And Pie posted:Oh, they still exist, but now they just sell iPhone cases. I haven't updated to an iPhone 6 for a number of reasons, but a main one is that it's loving huge. I don't exactly wear skinny jeans, but it's so clunky that I can basically fit an iPhone 6, its charger cord and my earbuds in one pocket at the same time and that's about it. An Otterbox just makes it even worse. The CEO at the company I work at has an iPhone 6S in an Otterbox (which I often have to fix or mess around with for him because he's extremely technologically impaired but also wants top of the line stuff as a status symbol because he grew up poor and married wealthy) and it's so unwieldy that it almost necessitates a belt clip or external pouch of some kind.
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