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.

      • andrew
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        191 year ago

        What duh the ib huwdb I j texted from my pitcher just fine.

        • FartsWithAnAccent
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          71 year ago

          If you didn’t text with a rotary phone you were a fucking noob: There, I said it.

          • Stantana
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            41 year ago

            T9 would work on a rotary phone input. You would save a lot of of time. It would still take a lot of time.

    • TurboWafflz
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      71 year ago

      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

      • Stantana
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        21 year ago

        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.

    • VindictiveJudge
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      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.

      • @stoy@lemmy.zip
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        21 year ago

        The size of the keys are not really the issue, the size of the spacing around them is.

      • Rhynoplaz
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        11 year ago

        The BlackBerry Curve has my favorite keyboard, and I DO have big hands!

    • @dasusernem@lemm.ee
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      31 year ago

      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.

    • I Cast Fist
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      21 year ago

      Motorola DROID 4 was my dream phone. Alas, it was never released down here, so I could never buy one, even used.

    • UltraMagnus0001
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      11 year ago

      my first smart phone was a Motorola Droid that had a physical keyboard. Cameras have come a long way.

      • gregorum
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        41 year ago

        So did I, and it was. Don’t let anyone tell you differently.

    • Slogan
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      51 year ago

      As a huge Formula 1 and Ferrari fan I had a Razr Maxx V6 Ferrari edition.

    • Tar_Alcaran
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      41 year ago

      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)

      • LazaroFilm
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        61 year ago

        I adored that phone!! I still miss the interchangeable covers instead of adding a stupid case to the phone. I had a few cases I could swap depending on my outfit or the occasion. I wish new phones would adopt a similar idea instead of having to add an extra cover on top of the phone. I don’t need it to look good under the cover. Just make the outside looks nice.

  • @crackajack@reddthat.com
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    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.

  • @malockin@lemmy.world
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    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!

  • @LucidDaemon@lemmy.world
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    101 year ago

    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.

      • @Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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        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.

  • Bob
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    This isn’t my hand but I had this lovely bastard:

    I used to be able to chuck it down the stairs and everything.

      • Bob
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        11 year ago

        My “iPod Classic”, for all its faults, had survived going under a bus’s wheel unscathed and falling off my bike at speed a few times before I finally consigned it to the box of electronic stuff I wasn’t going to take with me when I emigrated three years ago. The Gameboy colour’s in the cupboard as I type! I might even bring it with me when society collapses and I have to forage.

  • Xariphon
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    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.