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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.
The awful heft and size of the company-issue Samsung A25 makes me think about just how damn light the Nokia 8210 was. Life was then simple: enjoy life away from the keyboard, never distracted, and only text or call when it is really needed.
After the 8210 came Sony's K750, which had firsts for me: it can play music, and it can also take pretty pictures. My beef with it was the charger and earphone connector, and the not-so-responsive camera button.
HTC Desire, my first Android and smartphone ever. I made a lot of Java applications on that thing. Maybe I should learn Kotlin to do the same on my current phone.
No, but I do really miss the iPod Nano that clipped to my jeans
I still have it, but reminisce is all that I can do because I have no landline service to plug it in. It's the Trimline phone that we had when I was growing up. I think it was the one my parents previously rented from Wisconsin Bell, then bought after the breakup of AT&T when they had to let customer-owned devices connect to the network. It sits in the superannuated telephone nook in my kitchen, because, why not?
I miss my old Motorola flip phone (way before the razor) grey little thing with a removable battery & an antenna you extended... fit perfectly in small pockets that jeans back then liked to have randomly on the side.
I loved opening flip phones with a flick of the wrist, and the physical action of ending a call by closing it.
Sidekick (danger/tmobile). that layout with physical keyboard and the screen that rests over it or flips 180° above it was so cool.
Palm Treo was also pretty nice. Drug Wars, Space Trader, and AOL Instant Messenger all in one place!
iPhone 4S was one of my favorite phones. It was around the golden age of jailbreaking in my opinion. So much fun.
If we are going back before smartphones, then the RAZR V3i was a fun phone. SEEM editing was pretty sweet. Like, why was rhythm lights even a thing?
The Nokia 6820 will always have a special place in my heart as well. It was such a perfect little texting machine.
Nexus 5 is still my favorite phone I’ve owned. Affordable, no-nonsense, and lightweight.
God I miss having flagship phone that would fit into my hand.
Also I miss windows phones. Fuck Microsoft, but they tried something different and imo it worked if you went in with an open mind.
I miss having my Motorola Z2 Play, with the Moto-Mods platform, as a daily phone.
External mods that magnetically attach to the back of the phone. Primarily an extra 3500mah battery, but there were others: 360 camera, a printer, 3" stereo speakers, and even a projector.
I actually still have this phone, but it has become extremely slow, doesn't get security updates, and is incompatible with lots of apps. It now lives on the handle bars of my ebike, with it's extra battery mod; mostly as a gps. Occasionally I'll use it with the projector on the wall of my bedroom; watching movies or youtube.
I still have my Moto Z Play. Motorola had a small distribution in my country so I managed to get the battery pack, but I had to import myself the projector. I shoould try and turn mine on again and see how it's holding. It is still the most impressive phone to me as a whole. Great performance to price ratio, battery lasts for 2 days with active usage when it was new. It's bloody stupid that flagship phones and android bloat can't still get me a full days worth without putting g on ridiculous battery savings shenanigans.
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.
Honestly…. No.
My old phones were crap and I don’t miss them. First phone had phantom key presses and thought it was just a browser (lg chat). My iPhone 4s has horrific battery life. Next 2 were cheap Chinese phones which parasitic bloat (blu). Then I went into Xaiomi with a phone with broken GPS, and another with broken cameras. Ok otherwise.
I now have an iPhone 15 Pro. It’s good enough I almost don’t think of it. But I kind of wish I got a Fairphone.
Yes, and of phones I've never had and always wanted. The phone I had that I reminisce is my Nokia 808 PureView. The camera stack is revolutionary for its time that everyone basically uses it in bad and cost cutting ways IMO. But truly the best thing about it is the microphone. To this day I am still not impressed with. Sure I'm no techtuber that can get overpriced phones but even watching review videos and using headphones in their video recording sections the sound captured is okay at best.
The phones that I reminisce that I never had but always wanted is the Nokia N86 and many of the Nokia keyboard slider phones. the N86 is just because it is a normal slide phone usually, except that it can slide down to reveal music playback buttons. Nokia horizontal keyboard slider is just a nerd dream. Oh and the Nokia N900. And the Nokia N9. I might be a Nokia fanboy back I'm the day
Motorola Razr (the first ones).
So many lol
The T-Mobile G1 was incredible. I wish they would remake it for today. A slide out keyboard, and a little mouse ball. It was fucking fantastic.
Blackberry 7230, I think. I looked up the timeline, and that looks like the right one, but the article says it was color. Mine was black and white. My mom got it for me because I loved to read, and could use it to read books outside.
Blackberry 7100t was peak. First time I watched Internet porn was on that phone lol
And at one point between the blackberry and my first android, my mom got me this phone with a built in MP3 player. It was so friggin thick, but it could hold so much music, and had an awesome camera. Around the same time, my buddy had a phone with a camera with a telescopic lense that looked more like a traditional camera than a phone.
Palm Pre. Aside from the OS itself, I miss the little paratrooper game that was seemingly, unfortunately, exclusive to WebOS.
I had an odd and rare one: the LG AX490. Most of the phone was unremarkable, other than being somewhat car-shaped when closed, but it had an innovative keyboard system. There was a normal phone keypad, maybe slightly shrunk, but at the corners of each number button was a tiny raised button for each letter of the alphabet. It made anything text-related in the phone a breeze while keeping the normal flip phone shape.
I had a nokia brick for a decade....like actually. It had fantastic games. I even got ebook (as txt) working.
I am sad they switched off 2G some time ago here, I liked calling with my Nokia 6150 once in a while.
All the time. I'm an Apple guy, but I also have an Android phone. It's a Galaxy S10 and despite being 7 years old, I still like it. I kinda want to replace it (the Fairphone 6+ is freakin' awesome in green!) but it still gets the job done. I do miss my old Galaxy S3 sometimes, the custom firmware I ran on it. My favourite was called LiquidSmooth and it was based on Android 2.1 or 2.2 (Jellybean). It was a different world back then. I never woulda considered an iPhone back then. Now all phones are kinda samey. I use an iPhone because it's boring (it's consistent). I miss when being an Android user meant you were on an adventure. Now they're just iPhones with spyware. (They were before too, but you could do more about it. And yes, I know GrapheneOS exists and so does LineageOS — I remember when LineageOS was called CyanogenMod.)
One company I worked at gave us all BlackBerrys (at least those of us who needed phones). BlackBerry was a little outdated at that point but then they released the BlackBerry 10 OS. It was actually decent, but the build quality on the Q10 I had didn’t match their earlier phones. It came too late to save Research in Motion, but I always felt if they’d developed it 5 or maybe even fewer years earlier then they might’ve survived at least as corporate phones. They were so far gone at that point, though, that BlackBerry put out a press release celebrating our company committing to buy a couple thousand phones.
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.
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.
