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
2010 had many 2001 vibes still left over
I would’ve definitely guessed early 90s. Hell, the IBM Simon was introduced in 1994.
Looks loke my dad’s old windows phone back in 2005.
Everybody gangsta until you gotta unclog the toilet
sorry i had to log in to confirm - are you not using plungers? are you not using plungers every time that the toilet is clogged?
100% of the time?upon revisiting this - i have decided i am not working class but instead a part of the petty boogie-woogie and to maintain this status i am going to start a luxury plunger business with manufacturing set up off-shore somewhere
Look at Mr Fancy Plunger Pants over here. Got money and room for a dedicated toilet unblocking majigger. Probably take big poops just so you can satisfiedly unblock the pooper again without using your hands.
Some of us just get our hand in there and get the job done, when my toilet blocked regularly I just used a bin bag as arm protection 'cause it’s what we had. Can’t all live in a big plunger castle like yerself yer majesty.
get a grip
On the plunger right?
poopies
Sometimes when you need a plunger, life only gives you a plastic bag.
We still use these at UPS
Lmao thats what these are fedex uses them too
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
I had one of those too and I miss it every day
Yeah I loved that shit my thumbs suck at virtual keyboards
I’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.
LG Rumor / Rumor 2
LG enV
T-Mobile SidekickMy 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
It will be revived but with biometric sensors to capture more personal data, all of which is fed into a LLM pretending to be a healthcare provider.
“Your blood pressure is high, here’s a list of lifestyle interventions, or upgrade to a premium account for access to a healthy recipe database or go Platinum for access to our concierge prescription delivery service. Meanwhile here’s an ad for dick pills.”
‘‘Your blood pressure is high, kill your dog’’
“If you relinquish yourself to a shelter, your pizza sauce will stick to the crust.”
Whoa there, officer
Capitalism truly ruins everything it touches
They already have these little thumbtack devices that stab into your arm and give you annoying warnings over bluetooth that are only somewhat accurate
Damn. Bet they sell a lot of sensors for those.
Meh. With my phone I can type with one hand while my other arm does whatever.
what am i supposed to type with my neuralink
honestly id take this shit even with a touch screen, just wrap my arm in that shit
Pip-Boy irl
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!
fallout in real
My first thoughts as well. A functional IRL PIP Boy.
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 used to maintain those at my last job, they are still used in big grocery chains for inventory purposes
Oh crap. They used those at Amazon warehouses. Management opted instead for the gun-type scanners.
I could open a vault door with onna these things
