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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.

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[-] Rookeh@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

Sony-Ericsson W350i. Had it for about a year before I got my first Android device, an HTC Hero.

[-] Jupeter@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I had the James Bond edition of Sony Ericsson C902. The camera was nice but the UI had frame rate issues. I came from a brown SE K770i which was buttery smooth. From C902 I went to Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, my first touchscreen phone and first Android where I learned about apps, OS updates, fustom ROMs, etc. What a fantastic phone that was.

[-] FriendOfaFriend@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Owned a whole bunch of Sony / Sony Ericsson phones for about a decade.

Last one before the Xperia for me was the Aino..... Loved that thing.

Is it weird you can still get them?

[-] indigojasper@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I don't member the exact model but I had an LG Voyager that i held onto for a long time... I did NOT want to give up my physical keyboard for the touchscreen keyboard so I held out as long as I could. If Samsung came out with a slide-out keyboard for smartphones I'd be on that shit right away.

[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I went back to a dumb phone. I don't regeret it for one minute.

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[-] sagrotan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't know, the last one was maybe a Motorola clamshell, but from the "old" ones I had a Bosch GSM909, yes, they made phones. Barely usable and horribly expensive to use. But it had a blue 2 line display. A BLUE DISPLAY. Woooooow.

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[-] Toes@ani.social 3 points 1 year ago

My first phone was a smartphone. But a smartphone version of the one in your picture would be awesome.

[-] droidpenguin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This small form factor running Android would be very cool! Despite a small screen, it'd probably work well enough since you wouldn't have a software keyboard taking up 50% of the screen real estate. The e-ink keyboard is a good compromise of having dynamic changing keys but still have the tactile feedback.

I've seen proof of concepts and Kickstarters.

Uncertain if they're good or just a nostalgic gimmick

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I don't even want a smartphone now. would love a feature flip phone with the capability of being a hotspot. so wish that was a thing.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The last one I had was the original Motorola Razr and it was the second cell phone I ever had. My first phone was actually a smartish phone; my first cell was a Danger Hiptop (Sidekick). It was almost exactly like a modern smartphone; internet connected and used apps. But was around before the iPhone and did not have a touch screen. Only reason it wasn't also my last "dumb" phone was because my original broke long after they stopped selling them. Just to put in perspective how long I had these: my next phone after the Razr and first actual smartphone was a Nexus 4.

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I remember my first phone better than the last feature phone I had. First was the Nokia 5190

The last non-smartphone I owned was a Samsung I think. One of the first ones that supported media playback. It was a flip/clamshell design. After that it was a string of questionable choices until I got my first Nexus.

I had a strtrk phone (I think that was the name), which was a clamshell Windows Mobile phone and I really liked it but I went for a walk on a pretty warm day and got a call. After a long conversation, enough sweat got into the phone that it died. I also had the HTC touch, I think it was called. Anyways, it was a soap bar but slid sideways and had a qwerty keyboard, also Windows phone. I eventually picked up a Motorola milestone (other regions may know it as the Motorola Droid), which was similar to the HTC, but thinner, with a bigger screen, and it ran android, my first Android phone.

Then I eventually gave up on the hardware keyboard because nobody made phones with them that were any good, went through a few other HTC's that were all Android and very forgettable, until I landed on the Nexus 4. I've been doing the Google thing since. I owned a Nexus 4, 5, 6, 7, and 5X, as well as the pixel 1, 4 and now 7. Over the years, I've had secondary phones, usually iPhones, but not always, sometimes for work, sometimes just to have something different with me. I think I've used the 6/6 SE and one of the cheap ones.... I forget which cheap one, but one of them.

[-] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I held out on a smartphone for a long time because I loved my Alias so much. That keyboard thing was cool as fuck.

[-] TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Moto enV 3 I think. Went from that to an HTC windows phone and then to a Moto Droid 1

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I had a blackberry bold which was sorta in between smart and dumb. My last actual dumb phone was an LG rumor, which was one of those with the full querty slide-out keyboard

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Don't remember the exact model but something like this Nokia 1110.

[-] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Nokia 6100. It was awesome

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

This is a bit of a story, and depending on how you define it, I have gone back and forth between dumb and smart phones before I finally Settled on iPhone with the 5S

My first phone was a Nokia 3330, great phone, worked well, a bit too well for my parents liking when I found the wireless access protocol feature, and bruned 100sek on useless, slow internet access back in 2001 or so...

Later, I think I managed the impossible and broke my phone, and got my dads old Nokia 8210, that was extremely tiny, and really cool.

Dropped that in the snow and lost it.

Got a Sony Ericsson K700i, cool design, pretty useless phone, I lost it at home for months, and switched to my grandmothers old Nokia 5110, I meassured it against a real brick in the walls of my school, it was two thirds the size of the brick, found my K700i, but the joystick never really worked, so...

I got a Sony Ericsson K800i! That was a beast, awesome camera, rugged as hell, and super reliable, it was the first phone I had that had a usable music player, I had a large memory stick card that I filled with music, and just jammed, I broke so many 3.5mm adapters...

Then I got what I would describe as a smartish feature phone, the Nokia 5800, I even ran Putty on it to connect with a friend's Linux server and get on IRC with screen irssi! The phone was a touch phone, but resistive touch, so I needed a stylus, the music player was annoying, but the sound from the speakers, wow, it had BASE, and actually sounded good! I could even access Youtube on it, was brilliant on WiFi!

But the 5800 started deteriorating, and I had just got my first job, with my first paycheck I splashed the cash hard, and bought, what was my first smart phone, it was beutiful, had a fold out keyboard with a Swedish keyboard, a capacitive touchscreen, HDMI out, and it was mine. I had bought myself the amazing Nokia E7, can you believe it? A real Nokia E7! It was as badass as you could get back then, I felt like a complete hacker when I ran Putty on it with the keyboard folded out, I had even set up touch gestures to navigate irssi by swiping!

That phone got pickpocketed.

I could not afford to replace my E7 at the time, so I bought a Nokia Asha 300, it was crap, but worked well enough.

Now, at that time, I had a spare sim from an old mobile broadband I used in a temp apartment, it had unlimited data...

So I got a second phone!

I found a used Nokia E72, new in box, my dad had used one, and I liked the look of it, so I bought it from a reputable used phone dealer, and used it as mobile entertainment device, I could access youtube, even on the super tiny screen I got enjoyment out of the 144p video, but what I most enjoyed was internet radio, specifically, SLAYradio, an internet radio station only playing C64 remixes, that often can legally be downloaded for free, and I got so much music that way!

A few years later, I had got rid of the 300, and was using my E72 as my main phone, three days after gettibg a new job snd getting the final paycheck rom my last job, my E72 screen broke, so I got on the iPhone train with the S5

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[-] ares35@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

i'll let you know...

when i get one. still using a flipper. i don't "need" the internet in my pocket, and i love going weeks between charges.

[-] lemann@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Nokia 6300. Loved that thing, battery lasted all day and then some!

[-] notthebees@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Nokia 2680 Slide.

I miss that thing. https://goo.gl/search/Nokia+2680+SLIDE+BLUE&hl=en Nokia 2680 SLIDE BLUE, Mobile phone

[-] exothermic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Motorola Q - sold as a smart phone, was in fact dumb. Before that, moto razr

[-] aard@kyu.de 2 points 1 year ago

A Siemens S55. After that I moved to a Treo 270, and stayed with Palm until Nokia gave me an N900

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[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I had a predecessor of that (Samsung dual flip but no e ink buttons) that I lost while drunk. So I got the new iPhone 3g to replace it.https://www.clublexus.com/forums/attachments/general-classifieds/114261d1194963393-samsung-sch-u740-dual-flip-phone-verizon-ss1.jpg

I had this one shortly before that: https://forums.macrumors.com/proxy.php?image=http:%2F%2Fnews.cnet.com%2Fi%2Fne%2Fp%2F2005%2F042505samsung_phones.jpg&hash=72f2c8627e066462a633888642027e9f

[-] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] Ubettawerk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

LG Voyager. Loved that phone!

[-] M500@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Some blackberry, but if that doesn’t count then it was I think the lg chocolate.

[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Something like this, idk if it was this exact phone though. Only used it for a few months before getting an LG smartphone.

[-] liv@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

Nokia c5-00 and I stil prefer it.

[-] anguo@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I think it was a 2nd-hand Nokia N-Gage someone gave me. Weird phone.

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