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.
What duh the ib huwdb I j texted from my pitcher just fine.
If you didn’t text with a rotary phone you were a fucking noob: There, I said it.
T9 would work on a rotary phone input. You would save a lot of of time. It would still take a lot of time.
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
I got one of them tiny foldable bluetooth keyboards for anything longer than replies. Brings it with me everywhere, it’s super handy.
Yet not as handy as a slide out keyboard.
Is f(x)tec actually a thing? Like have they actually started shipping phones to customers?
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.
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.
or BlackBerry key approach
Motorola DROID 4 was my dream phone. Alas, it was never released down here, so I could never buy one, even used.
my first smart phone was a Motorola Droid that had a physical keyboard. Cameras have come a long way.
I miss those… ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ
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)
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.
I always thought this was such a cute phone
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 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.
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.
LG enV… Clamshell phone with a full keyboard when opened… God, that phone was awesome
The enV3 was either my last or one of them. Yeah, it was pretty great.
enV 2 for me, used that thing until my senior year in 2013
Does BlackBerry count as a dumb phone? I have a hard time calling it a smart phone.
A Samsung slider. I remember watching the Matrix the first time, and when that phone popped open to reveal the keypad it was mind-blowing. Getting a slider phone a few years later was so satisfying.
The phone in the movie was a Nokia. I believe it was the 7910, if memory serves me correctly.
The spring loaded slide wasn’t really a thing. I think one version of the phone had it in the production release, but it was limited to a very small geographical area… I think somewhere in Asia? I forget.
Everywhere else had the phone to some extent, minus the spring loaded sliding action. You just had up push the cover down.
Source: my best friend had one. After… I think, 3? Years of owning it, he was so fed up with its dumb quirks that I think he snapped the slider thing off… Which had the mic in it, so he got a new phone right after that.
EDIT: I was mistaken, it was the Nokia 7110.
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
This isn’t my hand but I had this lovely bastard:
I used to be able to chuck it down the stairs and everything.
