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.
I had this sick LG car phone and it made vroom vroom sounds. Used it for a decade and I still have it and it still works.
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 also had the alias 2. I thought I was pretty hot shit with the fancy flip-both-directions phone. And I think there was a little display on the outside too, right? With the time and some other basic notifications?
Yep! Could even use the tiny outside display as a viewfinder!
Last non-android was a Nokia 95-4. Was still fairly smart though. In fact if I recall it had a lot more functionality than the iPhone 3g that my gf had at the same time.
Last non smart was probably the Nokia 7250.
LG enV Touch. The thing was actually awesome. Music player was dope, touchscreen worked well, full physical keyboard, and the browser could load Flash. The web browser wasn’t perfect but was on par with the blackberry of the time.
I’m to young for. feature phones. although my first phone was a wonderful 2010 HTC desire brown a high-end phone in its heyday with 576mb of ram and a 3.7 touchscreen and like with most older android smartphones this had an user replaceable battery headphone jack and are easy to root… They don’t make erm like they use to
Motorola A1200, black one. Not exactly dumb phone but it wasn’t Android either. I love that device. Sadly they were never cheap, now days included. They are full Linux phone with GSM modules in kernel and no restrictions what so ever, so they are super popular with GSM hackers.
Sony Ericsson W580i
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.
I think about this all the time. I’ll give up being waterproof for a full-sized slide-out keyboard.
LG Voyager. Loved that phone!
Some blackberry, but if that doesn’t count then it was I think the lg chocolate.
I also had the Alias 2. Great phone. Technically I still have it but it is inactivated.
I still have a flip phone. Nokia piece of shit on Verizon. Works well for voice but it’s shit for anything else.
An Apple iPhone! Hahaha, I kid. . . . . I use Arch, btw.
Alias 2 and I still have it packed away in a box.
I don’t think I could say, honestly. My last (and first) dumb phone was a hand-me-down from my mother c2009, and I rarely used it. It spent most of its remaining life in a drawer with its battery removed, only coming out when I was going places where other forms of communication would be scarce. I think I made maybe a dozen calls (and one seriously garbled text message) before grudgingly getting a smart device in 2011.
And yes, my Boomer mother had gone through multiple cell phones before her Millennial son got his first.
