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.
Wow. I totally don’t remember and now you’re making me wish I did. It was a red flip phone, but I don’t even know what company made it.
Likely LG, that was my first cell phone too.
I’m looking on Google and that doesn’t look right. There’s a Nokia one which looks kind of like what I remember, but I’m not sure.
My second one was a Nokia 3310, the brick. I accidentally broke the LG and was given that by a friend.
I had a Sony Ericsson W595i before my first smartphone (which was a Vodafone 845)
I loved Sony Ericssons, had a bunch of them, because they were extremely moddable through VKP patches. it ran Doom natively 😄
Sony-Ericsson W350i. Had it for about a year before I got my first Android device, an HTC Hero.
A Siemens S55. After that I moved to a Treo 270, and stayed with Palm until Nokia gave me an N900
That little camera module looks like it actually took decent pics based on the sample on the wiki. Esp considering it’s from 2002.
I had Nokia 2720 and I had ported DOOM to it.
It was meh. No OS updates in forever, and T9 sucks.
Sony Ericsson W810i. Got it in 2007, I think. When it started to die on me in late 2009 i replaced it with an iPhone 3G, which was my first apple phone. It was also my last apple phone as I hated how locked down everything was.
EDIT: I just remembered I had a secondary dumbphone around 2012 or thereabouts. It was a dual SIM nokia of some sort that I used mainly as a backup phone in case my main ran out of battery while I was on the move.
I had a Sony Ericsson too as my last dumb phone but I don’t remember the model. I just remember it slides out to reveal the number pad and that it was great for music.
I found mine here, I’m sure you’ll recognize yours: https://m.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson-phones-19.php
I think it’s the W580i. Thanks!
I believe it was Siemens MC60. I remember getting my arm broken and then getting 10k CZK from the accident benefits. Parents asked me what I wanted for part of that money when I was in the hospital and I said this.
Then I bought a refurbished Treo 650 in 2015, an awesome piece of technology if only it had a WiFi (there was a possibility of a module that clipped on the back which had its own battery, or there were WiFi SDIO cards, but I, being a poor student who poured all his savings into the phone (yeah, very bad financial decision), couldn’t afford either of them.
I still miss a phone like that, but with a modern chipset and maybe a better OS (but still somehow based on the PalmOS original path)
Nokia c5-00 and I stil prefer it.
Moto enV 3 I think. Went from that to an HTC windows phone and then to a Moto Droid 1
Motorola V635i
I held out on a smartphone for a long time because I loved my Alias so much. That keyboard thing was cool as fuck.
I forget the name but it was the same style at the LG FlipShot.
This isn’t my hand but I had this lovely bastard:
I used to be able to chuck it down the stairs and everything.
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I don’t know, the last one was maybe a Motorola clamshell, but from the “old” ones I had a Bosch GSM909, yes, they made phones. Barely usable and horribly expensive to use. But it had a blue 2 line display. A BLUE DISPLAY. Woooooow.
That blue is very nice!
That’s what I thought back then… I believe. Everyone had a green or orange display, I was the young rebel I was back in the day ;)