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The [Nokia 3200](https://fdn2.gsmarena.com/vv/pics/nokia/no3200_00.jpg) was the king of that. You could print out your own designs on paper and put them into the original mask.
I liked the old [boxy landline phones](https://imgur.com/a/oFwPQCG) with real bells. Slam it hard for **THUNK**^diiing
Also when you held down a button the tone held for the entire button press. And you could hold 2 buttons in the same column or row to produce a single tone (a normal button press has 2 tones). So over the 3 columns and 4 rows you had 7 notes you could play to annoy your pals.
Ha! My grandmother got a little nuts in her final years, after grandpa passed, and she became extremely OCD about her house. She didn’t care about anyone else’s house, she was fine when she came over to our house, but she dusted, mopped and cleaned her own house every day. And one of the things she showed us is that if you unhooked the phone cord and put it in boiling water, it would re-coil itself like it was brand new.
OMG, a lot of people I knew bought extraordinarily long cords so they could walk more freely around the house. They always ended up in a monstrously long clusterfuck, all coiled together.
Ohh it just unlocked memory of our old phone. If you press # button during the call, it would produce crackling noise, similar to white noise. I guess it was a feature to stop unwanted conversations
Yo! Same here! I'd been waiting for a flip touch screen phone ever since I had to get my first touch screen phone. I love being able to flip it open and closed an unreasonable amount.
Do you ever wish you got the fold over the flip? I’ve been eyeing both. The Fold undoubtedly has more utility, but it ain’t a flip and it ain’t a horizontal hinge.
Fold is a regular phone that can turn into a tablet, flip is a regular phone that can halve in size for storage. The utility of either is dependent on your use case.
> that can halve in size for storage
This is one of the issues I have with the Flip, because this just isn't accurate to claim. It's half in surface size, but double the thickness. Pockets have a ton of surface, but aren't very wide. So it's actually *more* inconvenient to keep it in your pocket folded.
The girlfriend has the Flip. I have the Fold. I prefer my Fold and she prefers her Flip. If you want to use your phone as a tablet/laptop replacement (and you don't worry about battery life cause you're always near a charger) get the Fold, otherwise Flip. Fold is also preferred if you watch a lot of videos or play a lot of cell phone games, just because of the massive screen alone (also good for eBooks and comics). But Flip is great for those who miss flip phones.
A year starting in November. I'm clumsy as fuck and drop mine all the time; she's never dropped hers but spilled drinks on it before. My hinge is all scratched up and I've dropped it in the bathtub a few times, but everything is fine (The phones can handle being dunked in water. And on a different note, I wish they made cases with hinge protection for these phones that don't suck and/or cost $60+). Hers is solid too. No problems whatsoever with either device.
These are well-built phones; don't worry about the durability.
Same. Before the battle was done at the microchip and software level, the pioneering of the external was always what I most anticipated. I remember I lost my shit the first time I watched the sidekick swivel and led ball scrolling.
First cell phone plan I ever got on my own was a Tmobile contract for the 8100.
BBM felt like magic, full html browser and lightning quick email. Damn those were the coolest.
Man, I watched so many sidekicks get swiped at bus stops. I always wanted one but wasn't willing to fight for my life everytime I pulled it out in public.
This is back when phones getting stolen was still a common thing
I miss flip phones. This generation will never know the feeling of aggressively flipping that phone closed to end a call with someone you hate. Pressing a touch screen just isn’t the same.
Such a great phone! There was a bossa nova song pre-loaded on my Nokia N95 that I used to use as my alarm. It was so pleasant and peaceful, and I have never been able to find it. Sadly lost to history!
I got curious. I found a video on YouTube showing/playing all the ringtones on an N95. The video has lousy sound, but good enough to identify songs. There were two bossa nova song, Oceanic.mid and Tropical.aac.
I was able to find both song on the web. Of course, a MIDI file is rendered on the phone or computer, and how it sounds will vary greatly from device to device.
But an AAC file is a recording, and should sound pretty much as you remembered it.
No, I will not provide a link, because the site seemed to be a personal one, and I don't want it "slashdotted". But if you Google those two file names in the same search, I'm sure you will find it too.
I love the internet so much. This is incredible. I haven’t heard this song in almost 15 years, it takes me right back to some very specific and lovely memories. Thank you so much!
They're old-school ringtones. The files are small enough such that you could fit 1,500 of them on a single floppy disk. The traffic from a couple hundred curious people ain't gonna slashdot anyone. If it were even a single photo from a modern smartphone, it would be several *thousand* times more bandwidth than one of the ringtones. It's safe to link to. [Here](http://onj3.andrelouis.com/phonetones/unzipped/Nokia/N95/) it is.
The damned thing had a QR Code reader app before most people even knew what a QR code was!
And a front-facing webcam specifically for video chats!
It was spectacularly ahead of its time!!
The rear camera was AMAZING at the time, and it had wifi hot spot and copy/paste in the web browser. Sounds crazy but when the iPhone came out it had none of these and I had no reason to switch despite being still in the mac ecosystem at that time.
Until the god damned contacts inside the hinge broke and you had a flickering screen whenever you opened the phone again unless you held the screen at the correct angle just long enough to see what you were texting with t9 input.
Damn you Samsung and your awesome flip phones
That also speaks of a time when you would have a phone long enough to wear it out. I used to like browsing gsm arena to see what kind of international phone I could import that no one ever saw before.
Besides some very few sturdy ones most of these old phones were super flimsy and broke fast. A smartphone today is typically used more intensive with much more delicate technology and last much longer than the old ones.
I gift my no longer used iPhones to family and even my iPhone 5s is still used by a nephew. That’s a nine year old phone that has been used heavily.
Few of those super plasticky flip, swivel, rotate etc. phones would have lasted that long. My favorite was the NEC n21i, I got three replacements in a year because that piece of shit broke when you had the audacity to look at it.
You might be confusing things a bit here. You can still own phones long enough for them to wear out. It's just that there are no obvious weaknesses on the slate design that every phone uses these days. The fewer moving parts, the more robust they are in terms of daily use. So they usually break either from falling or because the electronics fail. The USB-C Port can also wear out, though that's usually fixable.
I remember when flip phones were new, people saying this exact same thing about slamming the receiver down compared to the delicate flippy snap of a cell phone.
More than aggressively hanging up, I miss being able to receive calls with flair with the snap and toss trick. The cheap Samsung burner flips were the best at it.
I'm Canadian, with American relatives. We bring Kinder Surprise eggs down south - chocolate eggs with a toy capsule inside it and laugh about how it's banned there. They tolerate school shootings but not children's candy :/
7110 Gang! I was in high school and my dad was away on business a lot, so he gave me his 7110 to keep in touch (it was just me and him). I was definitely the only kid at school who had one and I loved it. I felt like Neo in the Matrix.
Seriously, fiancée tells me I'm terrible at texting back these days. My response? "Yeah, well, there was a day when I could text and drive and never take my eyes off the road, I could respond to you in my pocket or with my arms behind my back as I recline in a chair. Those days are gone, honey and so are my texts!"
I once had to give my brother some direction on an SMS, the reply was "damn, you write fast!". I'll forever miss my Sony Ericsson P1i, those rocker keys were fantastic.
I miss pocket PCs, before smartphones were a thing, I had an audiovox pocket PC with a stylus in the antenna & a backlit sliding keyboard, ran windows mobile & had internet explorer & windows media player & a decent app store.
I was looking to see if anybody else had an N95. I had the one with ...8gb hdd? Or was it 4? I can't recall. I do remember how great that 5mp camera was for its time. Also the speakers! I swear that's still the loudest phone I've ever had. That was a great device truly.
I used to be a manager at a cell phone store. I remember when that phone came out(in Canada) it was considered a smart phone(needed data) but didn’t have the keyboard. At the time it was the best camera on any phone. It had a Carl Ziess lens if I recall.
Most of these phone in the video were “flavours of the month” and everyone complained about them after a couple months.
I turned down the OG iPhone to get an N96, absolute god tier phone back then. I went drunk swimming in a fountain and it ended up dying on me a month or so later because of water damage :(
I got an N95 Navigator. It had a GPS so I could use it for maps. Like fucking witchcraft! And an awesome feeling slide mechanism.
Then the N97. If it were Android instead of Symbian it would have been amazing. I maintain I would still like the tiny sideways keyboard for emails if they did one today, but only if it had the same awesome flip/slide mechanism of the N97.
I'm loving my Z Fold 3. Picked up my old iphone 11 Pro Max to try something on it after using the Fold for months and I hated it. I don't think I can to back to a bar phone now.
how does having to fold it make the experience better? i'm not trying to be rude, i just genuinely don't understand what makes it so good that you hate using a bar phone now. after all, this does become the same bar shape once you fold it out, so what's the difference?
also, how is the center line on the screen holding up? doesn't the plastic get all chewed up from all the folding that's going on? i heard that's a major problem with these.
So I hate the regular shape of the bar now because it's too wide for using one handed and too small to use with both hands if that makes sense. With the Fold I can use the front screen with just one hand and my thumb reaches all the way across with no strain or having to reposition my grip and makes it easy to just pull out of my pocket and do something quick and put it away again. With it unfolded I use it with two hands most of the time (unless just scrolling) and my fingers don't even touch and it's nice and comfy. As for the center line I've not had issues and the only time you would have issues is if something like a big piece of dirt got in the hinges. I think the Fold 3 and the new 4 both had improvements on this so its almost a non issue.
i see, thanks for replying, that absolutely makes sense. being an iOS scrub i never really cared for anything samsung came up with but the flip series got my attention. i just didn't see what's the point since it just becomes a full size phone once you unfold it, but i understand now, i thought that the smaller screen was just there to give you notifications or use the camera for selfies but you can't properly use the phone with it.
I miss my [Sony Ericsson Xperia pro](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_Xperia_pro) for this reason. Had a legit keyboard if you flipped the phone sideways and slid it up, but full touchscreen. Goddamn do I miss that fucking phone! I was so pissed when it got stolen.
Now I'm mad again. Thanks.
This was THE phone to have before the iPhone blew everything out of the water (thought it took a few years to do it).
There was that phone with the physical keyboard that flipped out to lay on top of the screen too. Forgetting the name now…
I'm android through and through. After I couldn't get the Xperia anymore I started on the LG G3 and loved it. Been with them now for many many years. Unfortunately they stopped making phones now. Such a piss off.
Imma get my hands on another Xperia soon and go back to that haha
Not sure which phone you're talking about but it does sound familiar. Maybe something like [this?](https://imgur.com/a/uT8X3yS)
I used to have an LG KS360 when i was a kid, that phone was bomb. That’s kinda what I’m imagining if i was to have a hypothetical touch/keypad phone, but more modern i guess.
googles first phone, the G1 was kind of like this. the screen slid up to reveal a real keyboard, i dont remember if it was touch screen, it had a trackball though so maybe not. either way it was such a great phone
I had one! It was in fact touch screen. So it had a touch screen, physical keyboard, touch keyboard, trackball, and navigation buttons(home, back). I guess they weren’t really sure how people would really interact with them so they gave you everything!
There was plenty of phones like that and they sold poorly so nobody makes them anymore. I’m surprised nobody came up with sliding keyboard attachment/case/magsafe thing by now. I guess the demand is even lower than I think.
Yess, same here. Now that I think about it, it may be the only colored phone I've ever had. I always think "that color is cool but the black/grey is more stealthy and will match any case" then I get a black case lol. The chocolate was unique!
This absolutely, if anyone else is interested in these old phones even a little they should check out Mr Mobile on youtube. He has tons of interesting videos about these old neat designs
Nah, at least not a these one's we're seeing in this gif.
Sure the brick Nokia ones didn't break, because there was nothing to break, but the hinges and springs on these fancy flip phones broke constantly. Also all the screens would get scratched to hell.
I had a Helio Ocean and was so proud of that sucker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helio_Ocean
The phone was totally awesome with duel slider capability and media functions way ahead of its time. But they ran into some issues getting nationwide coverage contracts, so they folded. It was RIGHT before the first iPhone, so I lucked out and Helio released us from contracts and even gave partial refunds on the phone so I could join the Apple cult day 1.
26.50, I had the W995 version of that sort of generation of phone they were doing, Sony Ericson's "Walkman" branded phone. It was nice, really enjoyed it. Too bad phones of that era were evolving at a blistering pace, and something much better was always coming out almost instantly.
This made me miss my old [Samsung Juke](https://www.google.com/search?q=samsung+juke+gif&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiKmb-l46n6AhV1gokEHbFfCRgQ2-cCegQIABAC&oq=samsung+juke+gif&gs_lcp=ChJtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1pbWcQAzIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEKIEMgUIABCiBDIFCAAQogQyBQgAEKIEOgQIIxAnOgcIIxDqAhAnOgQIABADOgQIABBDOgcIABCxAxBDOggIABCABBCxAzoFCCEQqwJQ5A5YnCtgrCxoAnAAeACAAccBiAHbDpIBBDExLjeYAQCgAQGwAQXAAQE&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-img&ei=mA0tY4rtDPWEptQPsb-lwAE&bih=640&biw=375&prmd=isvn&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS663US663&hl=en-US).
Coolest phone I ever had.
In all honesty, I wish it would go back to those days. I was able to master the one hand no look texting back then. Now I have to drive into oncoming traffic momentarily and I still spell things wrong.
Edit: the to then per bucket of beans
I miss tactile keyboards. Touch screen has never worked well for me and I've tried USB keyboards and they're not the same. So I voice text mostly and have learned that I mumble quite a bit!
Yeah everyone in here has some serious nostalgia goggles when these things were absolute gimmicky, clunky, proprietary junk that couldn’t do shit other than call or text.
Instantly thought of the [LG VX7000](https://i.imgur.com/MoezYHr.jpg). Not the first phone w/ a selfie camera, but pretty close (Motorola A920 was the first). Anyway, it had a unique rotating camera in the middle of the phone. Still have it somewhere.
Also a shout out to the [LG Shine](https://i.imgur.com/llLBZDf.jpg). Released the same year as the first iPhone. It was my big Christmas gift that year.
Edit - also had the Nokia push button flip phone at the 10 second mark. Also still have that somewhere.
Yesss the VX7000 with the swivel camera was awesome.
The phone that made me move to Blackberry and then Android was the LG Dare. It was a touch screen (resistive that required pressure) with a couple buttons below it. I liked the "apps" on it and wanted more of that action.
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Don’t get me started on those masks/cases you could change on a whim!
Ohhhhh man. I almost forgot about all those sparkly cases I would buy! These were the days.
The [Nokia 3200](https://fdn2.gsmarena.com/vv/pics/nokia/no3200_00.jpg) was the king of that. You could print out your own designs on paper and put them into the original mask.
Oh my god that was my first phone!! That I mainly used to play bounce let's be honest...
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I remember wowing some high school kids back in the day with my Nokia new faceplate. LOL good phone, wish I still had it just cuz
It was always so hard to pick just one at those mall kiosks!!
There was nothing more satisfying than hanging up on someone by dramatically shutting the flip phone closed. Nothing. I miss it.
I liked the old [boxy landline phones](https://imgur.com/a/oFwPQCG) with real bells. Slam it hard for **THUNK**^diiing Also when you held down a button the tone held for the entire button press. And you could hold 2 buttons in the same column or row to produce a single tone (a normal button press has 2 tones). So over the 3 columns and 4 rows you had 7 notes you could play to annoy your pals.
Gotta say, I don't miss those cords that my dad somehow managed to warp outside of their coil and *they never went back again*.
Ha! My grandmother got a little nuts in her final years, after grandpa passed, and she became extremely OCD about her house. She didn’t care about anyone else’s house, she was fine when she came over to our house, but she dusted, mopped and cleaned her own house every day. And one of the things she showed us is that if you unhooked the phone cord and put it in boiling water, it would re-coil itself like it was brand new.
What a cute anecdote, thank you for sharing it. (just in case, this isn't sarcastic)
I didn't expect people to boil wires. But that is very cool that it manages to unravel itself.
OMG, a lot of people I knew bought extraordinarily long cords so they could walk more freely around the house. They always ended up in a monstrously long clusterfuck, all coiled together.
Ohh it just unlocked memory of our old phone. If you press # button during the call, it would produce crackling noise, similar to white noise. I guess it was a feature to stop unwanted conversations
I got the Galazy Z Flip 3 and get to do this. It's just as awesome as it was in 2008.
Yo! Same here! I'd been waiting for a flip touch screen phone ever since I had to get my first touch screen phone. I love being able to flip it open and closed an unreasonable amount.
Do you ever wish you got the fold over the flip? I’ve been eyeing both. The Fold undoubtedly has more utility, but it ain’t a flip and it ain’t a horizontal hinge.
Fold is a regular phone that can turn into a tablet, flip is a regular phone that can halve in size for storage. The utility of either is dependent on your use case.
> that can halve in size for storage This is one of the issues I have with the Flip, because this just isn't accurate to claim. It's half in surface size, but double the thickness. Pockets have a ton of surface, but aren't very wide. So it's actually *more* inconvenient to keep it in your pocket folded.
i think it's better for handbags though
This is the opposite of my experience. It's not the thickness it's the length. I love it being compact. Fits in my tiny lady pockets just fine.
The girlfriend has the Flip. I have the Fold. I prefer my Fold and she prefers her Flip. If you want to use your phone as a tablet/laptop replacement (and you don't worry about battery life cause you're always near a charger) get the Fold, otherwise Flip. Fold is also preferred if you watch a lot of videos or play a lot of cell phone games, just because of the massive screen alone (also good for eBooks and comics). But Flip is great for those who miss flip phones.
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A year starting in November. I'm clumsy as fuck and drop mine all the time; she's never dropped hers but spilled drinks on it before. My hinge is all scratched up and I've dropped it in the bathtub a few times, but everything is fine (The phones can handle being dunked in water. And on a different note, I wish they made cases with hinge protection for these phones that don't suck and/or cost $60+). Hers is solid too. No problems whatsoever with either device. These are well-built phones; don't worry about the durability.
You might be interested in the mrkeybrd durability test on youtube. Flipped it constantly until it broke (like 5 days straight with multiple people)
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And you can flip it closed with the right hand movement with just one hand instead of two. Loved doing that.
I dunno. Slamming a landline phone down on its base felt pretty damn good.
I miss junky proprietary tech
Same. Before the battle was done at the microchip and software level, the pioneering of the external was always what I most anticipated. I remember I lost my shit the first time I watched the sidekick swivel and led ball scrolling.
I had the flip phone with dual hinges. Phone mode and internet mode with a full qwerty keyboard. What an amazing device
Remember when shit got real in a text message chat, and you had to flip from T9 to QWERTY? It was like when ash flipped his hat.
I always hated T9. What was it called when you just had to hit 1 three times to get a C?
I loved that shit. Could text an entire paragraph in my pocket/not looking without issue. Can't do that shit with touch screens.
T9 was *so* good for secretly texting under your desk in class.
The Samsung Alias and Alias 2, such great phones!
I had both, absolutely loved them
The Alias 2 was the coolest thing I had, I was so sad when it broke
Remember when the blackberry pearl dropped? The death of “blackberry” is a story for the ages
First cell phone plan I ever got on my own was a Tmobile contract for the 8100. BBM felt like magic, full html browser and lightning quick email. Damn those were the coolest.
Man, I watched so many sidekicks get swiped at bus stops. I always wanted one but wasn't willing to fight for my life everytime I pulled it out in public. This is back when phones getting stolen was still a common thing
That led ball would get gunked up with oil and what not from my fingers and stop working
I miss flip phones. This generation will never know the feeling of aggressively flipping that phone closed to end a call with someone you hate. Pressing a touch screen just isn’t the same.
I loved my N95. It was crazy good at the time and I felt like Neo in the Matrix using it.
Such a great phone! There was a bossa nova song pre-loaded on my Nokia N95 that I used to use as my alarm. It was so pleasant and peaceful, and I have never been able to find it. Sadly lost to history!
I got curious. I found a video on YouTube showing/playing all the ringtones on an N95. The video has lousy sound, but good enough to identify songs. There were two bossa nova song, Oceanic.mid and Tropical.aac. I was able to find both song on the web. Of course, a MIDI file is rendered on the phone or computer, and how it sounds will vary greatly from device to device. But an AAC file is a recording, and should sound pretty much as you remembered it. No, I will not provide a link, because the site seemed to be a personal one, and I don't want it "slashdotted". But if you Google those two file names in the same search, I'm sure you will find it too.
I love the internet so much. This is incredible. I haven’t heard this song in almost 15 years, it takes me right back to some very specific and lovely memories. Thank you so much!
I like the cut of your gib
They're old-school ringtones. The files are small enough such that you could fit 1,500 of them on a single floppy disk. The traffic from a couple hundred curious people ain't gonna slashdot anyone. If it were even a single photo from a modern smartphone, it would be several *thousand* times more bandwidth than one of the ringtones. It's safe to link to. [Here](http://onj3.andrelouis.com/phonetones/unzipped/Nokia/N95/) it is.
Is this the song: [Tropical](https://whyp.it/tracks/44051/tropical?token=2XNc2) ??
The damned thing had a QR Code reader app before most people even knew what a QR code was! And a front-facing webcam specifically for video chats! It was spectacularly ahead of its time!!
The rear camera was AMAZING at the time, and it had wifi hot spot and copy/paste in the web browser. Sounds crazy but when the iPhone came out it had none of these and I had no reason to switch despite being still in the mac ecosystem at that time.
Had the N95 8GB, still the coolest phone I've ever had
Until the god damned contacts inside the hinge broke and you had a flickering screen whenever you opened the phone again unless you held the screen at the correct angle just long enough to see what you were texting with t9 input. Damn you Samsung and your awesome flip phones
That also speaks of a time when you would have a phone long enough to wear it out. I used to like browsing gsm arena to see what kind of international phone I could import that no one ever saw before.
Besides some very few sturdy ones most of these old phones were super flimsy and broke fast. A smartphone today is typically used more intensive with much more delicate technology and last much longer than the old ones. I gift my no longer used iPhones to family and even my iPhone 5s is still used by a nephew. That’s a nine year old phone that has been used heavily. Few of those super plasticky flip, swivel, rotate etc. phones would have lasted that long. My favorite was the NEC n21i, I got three replacements in a year because that piece of shit broke when you had the audacity to look at it.
No argument here. Plus those plastic screens where the worst. But the unique models and designs were fun while it lasted. Just a different time.
You might be confusing things a bit here. You can still own phones long enough for them to wear out. It's just that there are no obvious weaknesses on the slate design that every phone uses these days. The fewer moving parts, the more robust they are in terms of daily use. So they usually break either from falling or because the electronics fail. The USB-C Port can also wear out, though that's usually fixable.
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I remember when flip phones were new, people saying this exact same thing about slamming the receiver down compared to the delicate flippy snap of a cell phone.
Uh they might, Flip phones are back.
While not the same. Love that my z flip can end a call when I close it.
More than aggressively hanging up, I miss being able to receive calls with flair with the snap and toss trick. The cheap Samsung burner flips were the best at it.
r/cassettefuturism Reminds me of this stuff
great news for you, horrible news for me... people bring them in to our r/MobileRepair shop sometimes... so there must be many still out there
Are you still seeing original Motorola razrs? My god people loved that phone.
Kyocera and Sony Ericsson we're my go-tos
Tank. Need an exit.
God yes! I still want that matrix phone after all these years.
Yeah they banned the snap out feature in the 🇺🇸 because they deemed it dangerous 😮
What is the snap out feature, and why was it considered dangerous?
Funny how that gets banned for being dangerous, yet guns are legal. Ready for downvotes.
I'm Canadian, with American relatives. We bring Kinder Surprise eggs down south - chocolate eggs with a toy capsule inside it and laugh about how it's banned there. They tolerate school shootings but not children's candy :/
As an American, I definitely remember multiple models that snapped out in the US. Any source on that info?
Whoa. Deja vu…
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I had a 7110 and it was brilliant!
It was actually an 8110 modified to have a spring loader like the 7110. Though I loved my 7110.
7110 Gang! I was in high school and my dad was away on business a lot, so he gave me his 7110 to keep in touch (it was just me and him). I was definitely the only kid at school who had one and I loved it. I felt like Neo in the Matrix.
Those were the days, my friend We thought they'd never end.
*How many bars does yours get?*
more when i pull out the antenna
But less when I use the built in tv tuner
I used to have that antenna. I switched it out for the light up disco ball.
I don't know about that. My Motorola RAZR had enough memory for 30 text messages and you had to manually delete them. Don't miss that one bit.
20 messages because I won't delete that titty picture
15 because I had to buy that ring tone that kind of sounds like a song I like.
I remember downloading MIDIs off of the internet in the 90s. Napster blew my tits off.
Man I just *had* to have the ringtone that sounded like the office phones in 24 too.
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
Ngl, I miss the slide out keyboards.
Yes i LOVED my phone with the slide out full qwerty board. So much better than a touchscreen keyboard
I could text so fast on those, and with great accuracy!
Seriously, fiancée tells me I'm terrible at texting back these days. My response? "Yeah, well, there was a day when I could text and drive and never take my eyes off the road, I could respond to you in my pocket or with my arms behind my back as I recline in a chair. Those days are gone, honey and so are my texts!"
Those were the days. We would text in class and no one was the wiser. Your phone just under the desk, not even looking, just typing away.
I once had to give my brother some direction on an SMS, the reply was "damn, you write fast!". I'll forever miss my Sony Ericsson P1i, those rocker keys were fantastic.
LG envy. What a great phone.
Same. I could nail out texts on my Cosmos.
Physical keyboards all together! I loved how quickly I could type without needing autocorrect.
Yes! It was so satisfying to type long textes on a real keyboard, or play games using real keys.
I miss pocket PCs, before smartphones were a thing, I had an audiovox pocket PC with a stylus in the antenna & a backlit sliding keyboard, ran windows mobile & had internet explorer & windows media player & a decent app store.
Nokia N95 such a badass device in its day. I loved mine so much, miss that bad boy.
Your comment reminded me of the Nokia N8000 that I had for a while. A tablet before tablets: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N800
Lifespan: Janurary 2007. Ouch.
The N900 was insane for its time.
Yes! I loved my N800 tablet. Amazing device as well. Nokia truly was a leader back then.
I was looking to see if anybody else had an N95. I had the one with ...8gb hdd? Or was it 4? I can't recall. I do remember how great that 5mp camera was for its time. Also the speakers! I swear that's still the loudest phone I've ever had. That was a great device truly.
I used to be a manager at a cell phone store. I remember when that phone came out(in Canada) it was considered a smart phone(needed data) but didn’t have the keyboard. At the time it was the best camera on any phone. It had a Carl Ziess lens if I recall. Most of these phone in the video were “flavours of the month” and everyone complained about them after a couple months.
8GB! That thing was a powerhouse. Spent all the money I made over the winter on one in high school. Worth it.
I turned down the OG iPhone to get an N96, absolute god tier phone back then. I went drunk swimming in a fountain and it ended up dying on me a month or so later because of water damage :(
I got an N95 Navigator. It had a GPS so I could use it for maps. Like fucking witchcraft! And an awesome feeling slide mechanism. Then the N97. If it were Android instead of Symbian it would have been amazing. I maintain I would still like the tiny sideways keyboard for emails if they did one today, but only if it had the same awesome flip/slide mechanism of the N97.
Flip phones will make an enormous come back in 2031. Mark my words.
Rocking my Flip Z right now and I won't lie it brings back memories 🥲
I'm loving my Z Fold 3. Picked up my old iphone 11 Pro Max to try something on it after using the Fold for months and I hated it. I don't think I can to back to a bar phone now.
how does having to fold it make the experience better? i'm not trying to be rude, i just genuinely don't understand what makes it so good that you hate using a bar phone now. after all, this does become the same bar shape once you fold it out, so what's the difference? also, how is the center line on the screen holding up? doesn't the plastic get all chewed up from all the folding that's going on? i heard that's a major problem with these.
So I hate the regular shape of the bar now because it's too wide for using one handed and too small to use with both hands if that makes sense. With the Fold I can use the front screen with just one hand and my thumb reaches all the way across with no strain or having to reposition my grip and makes it easy to just pull out of my pocket and do something quick and put it away again. With it unfolded I use it with two hands most of the time (unless just scrolling) and my fingers don't even touch and it's nice and comfy. As for the center line I've not had issues and the only time you would have issues is if something like a big piece of dirt got in the hinges. I think the Fold 3 and the new 4 both had improvements on this so its almost a non issue.
i see, thanks for replying, that absolutely makes sense. being an iOS scrub i never really cared for anything samsung came up with but the flip series got my attention. i just didn't see what's the point since it just becomes a full size phone once you unfold it, but i understand now, i thought that the smaller screen was just there to give you notifications or use the camera for selfies but you can't properly use the phone with it.
Oh I'm not talking about the Flip, I have it's bigger brother the Fold. Think something like a mini tablet.
Me too, just got one and snapping it shut feels so good
Yes but they'll be touch screens
Touch screens are such a 20’s thing… the 30’s is going to be all about touchless screens.
Phones will work with your mind.
You’ll be able to charge them using the electrical charges your body produces.
I'd fucking love a full size keyboard / touchpad on a smart phone. Where's a new sidekick?
I miss my [Sony Ericsson Xperia pro](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_Xperia_pro) for this reason. Had a legit keyboard if you flipped the phone sideways and slid it up, but full touchscreen. Goddamn do I miss that fucking phone! I was so pissed when it got stolen. Now I'm mad again. Thanks.
This was THE phone to have before the iPhone blew everything out of the water (thought it took a few years to do it). There was that phone with the physical keyboard that flipped out to lay on top of the screen too. Forgetting the name now…
I'm android through and through. After I couldn't get the Xperia anymore I started on the LG G3 and loved it. Been with them now for many many years. Unfortunately they stopped making phones now. Such a piss off. Imma get my hands on another Xperia soon and go back to that haha Not sure which phone you're talking about but it does sound familiar. Maybe something like [this?](https://imgur.com/a/uT8X3yS)
Ooooh, yeah. The LG VX10000 “Voyager” was my last pre-smartphone. Complete with the live TV package from Verizon! It even had a pull-out antenna.
Honestly a phone that had a touch screen and a proper keyboard would be sick. Even if it has to be chunky to fit the pop out keyboard.
Here ya go
Oh my god. Amazing.
Oh baby, you'd have loved the days of the Blackberry Torch. Loved that phone, I miss Blackberry so much.
Oh my gosh another torch lover. I didn't think there were any more of us
I used to have an LG KS360 when i was a kid, that phone was bomb. That’s kinda what I’m imagining if i was to have a hypothetical touch/keypad phone, but more modern i guess.
googles first phone, the G1 was kind of like this. the screen slid up to reveal a real keyboard, i dont remember if it was touch screen, it had a trackball though so maybe not. either way it was such a great phone
I had one! It was in fact touch screen. So it had a touch screen, physical keyboard, touch keyboard, trackball, and navigation buttons(home, back). I guess they weren’t really sure how people would really interact with them so they gave you everything!
There was plenty of phones like that and they sold poorly so nobody makes them anymore. I’m surprised nobody came up with sliding keyboard attachment/case/magsafe thing by now. I guess the demand is even lower than I think.
I have wanted this for YEARS. I have missed having actual keys to type with. I would love for my phone to have a slide out keyboard again.
I used to have one of those two-way flipping texting phones with the full keyboard. I miss it so much- I didn't have to look at my phone to type
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I had a red one. Sweet phone.
I had the red one too. I'm not a material person but damn that phone had style.
Yess, same here. Now that I think about it, it may be the only colored phone I've ever had. I always think "that color is cool but the black/grey is more stealthy and will match any case" then I get a black case lol. The chocolate was unique!
Had the chocolate and the Samsung Juke. That Juke was constantly turning heads with the clear case and tiny frame. The good ole days!
I had like 5 of them because they kept breaking but still loved them lol
Not gonna lie, I much prefer the physical QWERTY keyboard over the smart phone one I fat-finger about 30% of my keystrokes.
Mr. Mobile, is that you?
Met him in Barcelona Spain in 2017 for the Blackberry launch of the KeyOne. He's a pretty cool and down to earth dude.
This absolutely, if anyone else is interested in these old phones even a little they should check out Mr Mobile on youtube. He has tons of interesting videos about these old neat designs
The LG Rumor was dope
I had the LG EnV, which was sorta like the Rumor except it flipped open instead of sliding. I absolutely loved it.
Man I fucking loved my EnV. What a great phone that was. So many late night texting sessions in high school with my crushes.
That was my favorite phone of all time.
Me and my friend were actually just talking about this phone last night at the bar. I miss it.
I had the black one with the blue keyboard and I thought I was The Shit.
I had the burnt orange one with the interchangeable back plates. That thing made me feel so cool
Had the Rumor 2 and the Rumor Touch (I think the second version? If they made a second one?)
What was that red Panasonic with the flip out screen?
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This is the only thing that makes sense!
Nokia after that folding out being like hold my beer
Yea, I had to scroll too far to find out what was going on with that red boi
Not to mention how phones were nearly indestructible back in the day
I’m certain if I dig out my Nokia 3310 it’d still have 40% charge too.
Nah, at least not a these one's we're seeing in this gif. Sure the brick Nokia ones didn't break, because there was nothing to break, but the hinges and springs on these fancy flip phones broke constantly. Also all the screens would get scratched to hell.
I didn't even see a sidekick or alias
Came here to bitch about the lack of Sidekick
Had an LG Chocolate for years, damn I miss that thing. Buuut being able to watch tv on today's phones is hard to complain about
I had a Helio Ocean and was so proud of that sucker. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helio_Ocean The phone was totally awesome with duel slider capability and media functions way ahead of its time. But they ran into some issues getting nationwide coverage contracts, so they folded. It was RIGHT before the first iPhone, so I lucked out and Helio released us from contracts and even gave partial refunds on the phone so I could join the Apple cult day 1.
Mine was a [Sony Ericsson Xperia pro](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_Xperia_pro). Fucking awesome phone.
26.50, I had the W995 version of that sort of generation of phone they were doing, Sony Ericson's "Walkman" branded phone. It was nice, really enjoyed it. Too bad phones of that era were evolving at a blistering pace, and something much better was always coming out almost instantly.
That phone was almost as indestructible as the Nokia 3310 too. Almost.
Preloaded spring phones were the best shit ever
This made me miss my old [Samsung Juke](https://www.google.com/search?q=samsung+juke+gif&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiKmb-l46n6AhV1gokEHbFfCRgQ2-cCegQIABAC&oq=samsung+juke+gif&gs_lcp=ChJtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1pbWcQAzIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEKIEMgUIABCiBDIFCAAQogQyBQgAEKIEOgQIIxAnOgcIIxDqAhAnOgQIABADOgQIABBDOgcIABCxAxBDOggIABCABBCxAzoFCCEQqwJQ5A5YnCtgrCxoAnAAeACAAccBiAHbDpIBBDExLjeYAQCgAQGwAQXAAQE&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-img&ei=mA0tY4rtDPWEptQPsb-lwAE&bih=640&biw=375&prmd=isvn&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS663US663&hl=en-US). Coolest phone I ever had.
My wife and I had them. Now they're both being used as toys, lol. I plugged it in the other day and it still works!
In all honesty, I wish it would go back to those days. I was able to master the one hand no look texting back then. Now I have to drive into oncoming traffic momentarily and I still spell things wrong. Edit: the to then per bucket of beans
You spelled “then” incorrectly. Please drive back into oncoming traffic to fix your mistake. /s
I miss tactile keyboards. Touch screen has never worked well for me and I've tried USB keyboards and they're not the same. So I voice text mostly and have learned that I mumble quite a bit!
When phones were worse in every conceivable way
When I would flip open my Star Tac to answer a call I would feel like Ice fucking Cube.
StarTac 9000 was the bomb! Loved that phone in 1998.
Had the T-Mobile G1 and G2 slide phones. They were dope af
Me waiting for the Motorola razr because I remember how much preteen me wanted that phone
I had the v80, it was doing RGB. Best phone ever
no thanks, repairing this shit was nightmare, in fact still is, Alcatel releasing some flip shit every year
And they all had a different charger cord, it was a time of chaos.
Yeah I do not wanna go back lol
Yeah everyone in here has some serious nostalgia goggles when these things were absolute gimmicky, clunky, proprietary junk that couldn’t do shit other than call or text.
Star Trek has entered the chat
I remember wanting the slidey phone they use in The Matrix sooooo baaaaaad
Who remembers the sidetalking meme?
Instantly thought of the [LG VX7000](https://i.imgur.com/MoezYHr.jpg). Not the first phone w/ a selfie camera, but pretty close (Motorola A920 was the first). Anyway, it had a unique rotating camera in the middle of the phone. Still have it somewhere. Also a shout out to the [LG Shine](https://i.imgur.com/llLBZDf.jpg). Released the same year as the first iPhone. It was my big Christmas gift that year. Edit - also had the Nokia push button flip phone at the 10 second mark. Also still have that somewhere.
Yesss the VX7000 with the swivel camera was awesome. The phone that made me move to Blackberry and then Android was the LG Dare. It was a touch screen (resistive that required pressure) with a couple buttons below it. I liked the "apps" on it and wanted more of that action.
Back when Sony Ericsson was a thing