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The snap of a clamshell

liked the flip-phones with clips to hang them on your belt. no pockets needed. like a pager

Microsoft is now the architect of a lot of shit. But the Windows Phone systems were surprisingly good, and a competitive alternative to iOS and Android. Even using Internet Explorer for its browser wasn’t so bad, since it was the late years of the browser when they understood standards compliance was critical, and followed them entirely.

Its moderate success in outer regions was delivered as an overpromise that lead to Windows 8 as a very “fullscreen touchscreen” OS, so it especially sucks that its follow-on legacy was so tarnished.

I still sometimes think about my Nokia Lumia 730, my first smartphone. It was an absolute joy to use. The live tiles which was implemented so badly in PC looked so cool on phone.

Windows phone was light and fluid unlike the bloated Touchwiz most people used on their Samsungs those days. Things weren't always rosy though, I used to wait for turns to get my hands on my friend's android just so I could play the multiplayer games which didnt have a port. Never could follow the latest trending photo filter app , i think one was name prisma. Now I think it was probably for the best.

Held on to it as much as I could but with the app ecosystem not expanding and several services limited to just Android and IOS, I had to give it up.

My htc hero had a track ball. Peak android right there. Also literally the first android in the US if I recall correctly.

My Nexus 4. Great phone! I regret giving it away after I broke the screen for the second time by stupidity. It was light, fast and beautiful

Nokia n900. It was everything a smart phone should have been in the first place.

It was such a simple yet fun device. It had really good sound and an equaliser, which was special at the time. Played loads of music on it. Great battery life too. No WiFi, but honestly, that might be a plus nowadays.

I reminisce about the time when I would get a new phone and then spent a whole day going through the settings and tweaking stuff.

Setting up a new phone now is arguably easier and faster but also just boring

I still have, in my little nostalgia cash box, a Nokia phone from the early 2000s that has Nokia Bowling on it. Doesn't have an adapter, but I'm not letting that phone go.

I miss my old Nokia 6800 Typing was so nice on that phone.

My old Motorola Razr. I used to like flipping it open like a Star Trek communicator, but it was also just a cool little phone.

My Nexus 6P with the finger print sensor on the back. It supported gestures on the fingerprint sensor too, so you could unlock it and then swipe up or down to do an action. I had down swipe as pull down the notification shade, so could check notifications without even touching the screen.

When I was a little 1980s kid, my family got rid of a malfunctioning wall-mounted rotary phone which had been installed there since time immemorial. I asked if I could keep it and my mom said no, but she did let me exercise my curiosity by taking it apart to see what the innards were like.

I kept the dial, and it still lives on a shelf of mildly-interesting things in my house. It still spins, though the recoil speed is way slower than it should be

(I also grew up to be a phone phreak.)

Nope. I never really got into phones. The only reason I bought my smartphone, is because society demanded it. You can't access many things without one.

My first and only smartphone is an iPhone 16, all the previous cellphones were cheap dumbphones for about $20. If possible, I prefer using email and a PC browser, because desktop computing is my natural habitat.

Phones suck. I have to pay a subscription for something that I don't like using, and barely touch most weeks.

I always wanted the "phone" John Connor used in T2 to hack the ATMs

Atari Portfolio

I sometimes wish I had my old nokia. the indestructible brick one.

mostly because i fucking hate smartphones and the always-online-ness.

Not as old, but I miss using my Essentials PH-1. It had stock android instead of a carrier or maker version of android and some really cool features.

The add-on possibilities looked good, since it had two power pads on the back with a magnet, and wireless USB interface.

You could mag click on adapters to add hardware.

I had the 360 video camera add on, and the company folded before I had a chance to purchase the audio DAC headphone add on.

Rip helio ocean, dual slider t9 and keyboard

Oh boy how I miss using this bad boy:

It was a terrible games machine, it was a terrible phone, but it was weird and interesting, the Nokia N-Gage

Loved that weird thing

6210

Perfect size and shape, good button response, no distracting apps, could provide mobile-internet over IR to a laptop (eg Satellite Pro 4200)(speed was in between 33.6kbps and 56 kbps) .

WAP was a nonsense gimmick.

Solid phone.

I don't really reminisce, but lament having a Nokia N9 with the meego os and watching Microsoft buy the company and run it into the ground.

The phone was small, quite heavy in comparison, but the icons and ui worked (and still works) with the low px-res UI.

Yes. The HTC TyTN. Full slide out keyboard. Windows CE. Decent memory. Decent battery life. I jailbroke it too so I had even more customizability.

Also the original iPhone 3g. Still have it. Still works.

Both of them represent the (mostly) pre-enshittified internet.

1961 Bell System Model 554 Rotary Dial Wall Telephone

The Motorola Droid. Full keyboard was amazing.

Before that the Nokia 6800. Tiny screen but still had a full keyboard.

Yes my RAZR V3. It was not perfect but I loved it.

No phone will ever work as well as blackberry 10 os did. I miss that shit every day!

Motorola Droid 2. I just miss keyboard sliders.

Yes, all my various BlackBerrys.

Nexus 6p was peak phone.

I actually do kind of miss my windows phone LOL

BlackBerry. My kingdom for a decent keyboard.

Nokia 7110 because it had a spring loaded keypad cover.

Nokia 8850 because my carrier fucked up the billing and credited my account the amount I was supposed to pay for the monthly repayment plan.