MEGA MAN STAR FORCE REFERENCE
The Transer (heh) […] is a mobile terminal that appears in Mega Man Star Force as an evolution of the PErsonal Terminal from the Mega Man Battle Network series. Most people wear their Transers on their arms[, but it can also be detached from the wriststrap].
The Transer is just a wearable Nintendo DS in form, because that’s the platform the game is on, and instead of apps, you insert different physical cards, as the battle system has card game elements. Gimmick-based worldbuilding.
Coincidentally, it was released in Japan in December of 2006.
Oh crap. They used those at Amazon warehouses. Management opted instead for the gun-type scanners.
I want actual buttons on more devices. Touchscreen shit is a liability and outright dangerous in some situations, but nooooo, Holy Steve Jobs must be emulated forevermore.
Me trying to pull up the bus schedule on my phone, but my fingers are too cold to register on the screen.
Me trying to pull up the bus schedule on my phone, but my fingers are too cold to register on the screen.
Too cold, too damp… winter in my new location made phones really frustrating.
And for what? Why must it be like this, besides a paradoxical “innovation” laziness?
Because designing an interface is hard and it’s easier to just not do it
We still use these at UPS
Lmao thats what these are fedex uses them too
It looks a lot older than it is.
2006 to 2013
My very uneducated guess is that it looks like it was meant for the enterprise market, and judging by the way any other piece of enterprise hardware looks even today, design trends are like 10-15 years behind. And since you have to guarantee serviceability and backwards compatibility, the design will be much slower to change, compared to consumer tech.
tbh it does look like 1990-2005 era tech to me
Looks loke my dad’s old windows phone back in 2005.
I would’ve definitely guessed early 90s. Hell, the IBM Simon was introduced in 1994.
2010 had many 2001 vibes still left over
Things like this would make your arm all sweaty and youll end up having weird tan lines if you decided to touch grass.
I want one
in '09 I had this slide out physical QWERTY keyboard phone. like you turned the phone on its side and split the phone like you were splitting a deck of cards in half.
kinda like this one. https://i0.wp.com/www.gottabemobile.com/wp-content/uploads/Samsung-Stratosphere-keyboard1.jpg
shit was actually badass for browsing and texting. afk brb fuk u 2 lol l8r
LG Rumor / Rumor 2
LG enV
T-Mobile SidekickI’m surprised there isn’t a market for a case with built-in slideout keyboard, I’d hate to have to choose between physical keyboard and rest-of-phone-good.
I had one of those too and I miss it every day
Yeah I loved that shit my thumbs suck at virtual keyboards
My first smartphone was a second-hand Motorola Droid A855 that I got in like 2012 (I think it was about 2-3 years old by the time I got it). That keyboard was great and I hated how smartphones were slowly moving away from it.
Those ruled. Fucking hate touch screens
I could open a vault door with onna these things
That was for warehouse work.
fallout in real
My first thoughts as well. A functional IRL PIP Boy.
We used to maintain those at my last job, they are still used in big grocery chains for inventory purposes
Pip-Boy irl
Jobs lapped these dorks.
We used to use these at work. They suck to type on. We upgraded to the touchscreen smartphone types, and they’re much better.
i imagine many factory workers are still living this cool techno timeline. lucky them!
