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.

  • Flying Squid
    link
    fedilink
    21 year ago

    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.

      • Flying Squid
        link
        fedilink
        11 year ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          21 year ago

          My second one was a Nokia 3310, the brick. I accidentally broke the LG and was given that by a friend.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    1
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    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 😄

    • @[email protected]OP
      link
      fedilink
      11 year ago

      That little camera module looks like it actually took decent pics based on the sample on the wiki. Esp considering it’s from 2002.

  • pelya
    link
    fedilink
    11 year ago

    I had Nokia 2720 and I had ported DOOM to it.

    It was meh. No OS updates in forever, and T9 sucks.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    5
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    21 year ago

    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)

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    21 year ago

    I held out on a smartphone for a long time because I loved my Alias so much. That keyboard thing was cool as fuck.

  • JackbyDev
    link
    fedilink
    English
    21 year ago

    I forget the name but it was the same style at the LG FlipShot.

  • Bob
    link
    fedilink
    9
    edit-2
    1 year ago

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

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

  • Sagrotan
    link
    fedilink
    3
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    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.

    1000006419

      • Sagrotan
        link
        fedilink
        21 year ago

        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 ;)