Still have this device somewhere
and 2 HTC Diamonds ( Windows CE ) - lol
Found memories: and the memories are French.
Oui
The Droid and later Droid 2 will forever be some of my favorite phones.
That was my first smartphone, and I absolutely loved it! Shame nothing like it ever came out again.
Had the OG Droid but mine was a weird offshoot that had the rubberized keyboard that became standard in Droid 2.
Travelled from US to Europe and during the trip the keys started falling out 1 by 1. Made it darn near unusable.
Still… Loved that phone and would get a modern day version of it still. Miss those physical keyboard days!
I still have my droid 2 somewhere. I’d still buy a phone with a physical keyboard. Worst part about that phone was the random reboots and the loud “DROID” sound effect it played when it boots. Happened several times during college lectures and I got yelled at for it at least once.
Nowadays, we don’t even get keyboard covers for popular phones anymore.
Not just the hardware. I far prefer icons from that time as well. I hate the modern trend of flat icons with no details. They look like someone mashed them out after 5 minutes in Krita and then drugged their management into believing that it was a recreation of the Mona Lisa.
Early iOs and Android icons were one of the last offshoot of the style called “Frutiger Aero”
Flat icons don’t necessarily bad and undetailed, it’s just harder to create something more recogniseable with less tools, but I actually like the order, that they look like they are related to each other. Back in the day I created icon packs for the programs I used on pc, so my desktop would look clean and uniform.
Design styles are in a cycle, just wait some years and they will show up again, I’m sure. There is already some connection with the new style of windows 11.
The modern flat icons are actually… A little insidious in their conception. They’re based on industrial psychology and mid-century modern propaganda. They make your phone just that bit more addictive. It’s not someone convincing management it’s a recreation of the Mona Lisa, it’s management coming down to the graphics department and saying “You need to make it more addictive”
At least icons are easy to customize! I should do a windows 95 theme on my phone
I had a couple Windows Mobile/Pocket PCs. They were flawed, yet awesome in their own way. Early Android was clearly better, but sadly it’s become a locked down spy fest. I’d love a new real “Pocket PC”.
I was more of a Palm guy back then, but I picked up a Droid after getting sick of Palm fucking up their new OS and cheaping out on their flagships. They could have been great, but they chose to be shit because they took too many shortcuts and fought too much internally. Design/interface wise, the Pre and PalmOS were brilliant - way ahead of their time.
I had this guy (Motorola Cliq) and loved it:
I loved my slider as well. They made texting so much easier. I went from one of those to a blackberry bold.
I did the opposite, kind of - from a Blackberry Pearl to my Cliq.
Texting was def easier on them. Plus it was fun to pop the keyboard out. The slider was very satisfying.
They made great fidget toys.
In thought the SMS said SUS and got really confused for a second
Do we have any community for vintage phones already?
This reminds me of a Youtube series a guy did called When Phones Were Fun.
“A guy” Give Mr Mobile his due! The man’s a legend!
A friend of mine had the Droid.
At that point I was rocking the T Mobile Vario, which I believe was an HTC. It was, sadly, dog shit. Windows Mobile was not a fun time.
Windows Mobile did everything wrong. regarding the “mobile” aspect - lol
I had such a hard time with the HTC Diamond - it was super expensive at the time, so i really wanted to work with it.
Yeah, after this I had the Vario III, which was an HTC Kaiser. The phone was great (if somewhat underpowered), but WinMob was still clunky and shit.
My next phone after that was an iPhone 3GS, and I’ve been iPhone ever since.
The Nokia N900 was my fond memory. It ran a version of Linux, opening ‘terminal’ on my phone never got old.
MeeGo, then Maemo. It lives on in the successor SailfishOS.
I had one of those for a while. That was the best worst phone I ever owned. It was awesome at absolutely everything except being a phone…
I never spoke to anyone so it was fine lol
I still have my HTC touch dual and my HTC Magic in a drawer somewhere. Those were such exciting phones, coming from a Nokia.
Flashing Cyanogen Rom and custom recoveries felt so bleeding edge. Now a new phone is just an incremental update. A lot more stable and capable, bit kinda boring
Those were such exciting phones, coming from a Nokia.
Nokia made them too! I had the N97 for a good while… Also still have it in a drawer somewhere lol
My previous phone was a Nokia 6289
A colleague had a Nokia 9110 back in 1998, that was very advanced back then
My uncle had the Nokia 9110, it was incredible for its time, and definitely contributed to me wanting a phone with a full keyboard haha
I have an E7 still, and it feels still very modern with its aluminium frame and oled screen. And of course a qwerty keyboard
Ooh, yeah, that’s a nice phone…
Back when Google wasn’t evil, had barely killed any products and we were all optimistic about the future of tech.
I would love a Bluetooth keyboard cover like that for my s22
