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My old slimline POTS phone is still mounted to the wall in my kitchen for nostalgia's sake.

Nah. I just wish I could get the phone I want at a good price. Which is a dumb (feature) phone where you can connect by usb and edit things like the calendar and contacts in a web browser and heck the phones settings and such. More importantly that it have a data connection and you could click a button to have it act as an access point and give you a code to use on your laptop to connect to it. I don't feel those feature should more than double a cheap dumb phones price.

I miss my original Motorola droid phone. With the USB on the side...with accessories like the charger that made it look like a nightstand alarm clock...

Great phone.

Nokia Lumia 735, it still works but essential apps don't so I had to switch. It was perfect, reliable, sturdy, and the last phone to comfortably fit in my palm. Had gorilla glass and guts to match, took many a tumble down the pavement when I accidentally yanked the earbud wire while biking, you could hardly tell. Everything about it was just right.

I am sad they switched off 2G some time ago here, I liked calling with my Nokia 6150 once in a while.

My lumia 950 windows phone. Just fantastic ui that is yet to be matched, 13 years later.

I had a phone back in the day where all I had to do is violently flick it abruptly to enable the flashlight. I use my phone's flashlight a lot, always have.

There are apps that supposedly do the same thing, but I've never found one that worked so well, and so reliably as the one that was baked into the phone's features/OS/whatever. All the free ones I've tried have AIDS I mean ads, though it's been awhile since I last tried any.

I had a nokia brick for a decade....like actually. It had fantastic games. I even got ebook (as txt) working.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_3310?wprov=sfla1

I miss my Nexus 6. It was my first Android phone, and got me into tinkering with android. I remember that the device codename, relevant for finding compatible ROMs, was "shamu". I miss that big old whale

A lot of what I miss is the software side of things. Google Assistant used to be way more capable than it is now. And now they're replacing that entirely with Gemini.

you can still use these phones.

i have discord and signal messenger on my nokia 7110 with wap-browser shenanigans

I do miss my Pixel 5a. I think it was the last Pixel to have a headphone port. I have an 8a now and it's just worse. Effective battery life is MUCH worse and I'm not even sure why. The device itself is a little thicker, no headphone port, the under-screen fingerprint reader is much less effective, the pinhole camera is in a worse location, and other than that it's pretty much the same.

I would have used my 5a into perpetuity but the screen spontaneously broke one day totally out of nowhere. Didn't drop it or anything, it just permanently froze while I was using it one time.
Turns out it might have been some moisture problem and people online said that it might work if you put the phone in the freezer. Well, that actually did work and I used it that way for a couple weeks. I would keep my phone in the freezer overnight and it would work for most of the day. But eventually that stopped working and the screen warranty had just ended so I got a new (worse 😡) phone. But I miss the 5a...

Nexus 5 with CopperheadOS . it was such a solid combo in terms of speed and lack of corporate bloatware. Oh, and the vibration mechanism needs to be brought back.

Yeah, my LG EnV2. It was a more physically pleasurable thing to use than any phone I've had since, because I switched to Android after that. That first Android phone, an LG Ally, was kinda slick too, not as ergonomic and touch screens are a mistake, but...it still felt like progress. Things got better or more capable. I've had like four phones since that Ally, and even though they've gotten objectively more powerful as computers, they don't functionally do much more.

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.

The Motorola Droid. Full keyboard was amazing.

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

Palm Pre, and a yellow sony dumbphone i once had.

Pixel I have is still small. I miss the headphone jack of the original one though.

Oh, yeah. I really miss how painful dialing anything on a rotary phone was.

I had a POTS phone that was clear plastic with a ring of blue neon that would flicker when a call came in

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.

I want to say the Motorola Droid, but the Droid III had a dedicated number row which was amazing. Either those or my old Razr v3.

Any of my phones with a flip out keyboard... those were the best. I wish I kept them...

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

i keep every phone i've ever owned in a box. rip xperia z1 compact, gone too soon when i accidentally put it in a jacket pocket on a -35°C day and the battery froze...

Yeah, I miss my old iPhone 5S, LG G4 and Nexus 6P. All of those were great phones for different reasons.

I don't miss my old Samsung slide-open phone, nor the HTC One m9 I had for all of a week before the camera was so bad it made me return it.

My favorite ever was the Samsung Uproar. Also my first portable mp3 player and while it had shit storage, I had my favorite playlist always at the ready which was so novel at the time. The backlighted screen felt so premium then.

If smartphones where universally and unequivocally banned tomorrow I'd be happy about it. I don't think the pros have outweighed the cons.

Sony Xperia Z5 compact My previos phones couldn't compete with its quality overall. Last really compact phone I owned. Feels like peak smartphone to me, but certainly a lot of nostalgia.

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

I'm basically still looking only for an improved version of the Nexus 5x par excellence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_5X

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