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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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[–] ZosoRocks3@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

A Samsung F400,it was a slider that slid up to reveal the number pad and down to reveal a speaker. Was great for music, don't remember much more about it. Moved on to the Blackberry Bold after that as far as I remember.

[–] 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Nokia 5228, those times were great when friends sent me some music using the bluetooth

[–] AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

Some Sony Ericsson Xperia with a slideout keyboard. Was shocked how much of a dumb brick it was compared to my iPod Touch I got at the same time.

[–] cousinofjah@twit.social 2 points 2 years ago

I had a Motorola StarTac, but I also had a plug-in organizer that I could import my contacts and initiate calls with. On top of that I had a cable that that I could tether my iPaq to by dialing #777 . My next phone was a Palm Treo.

[–] tslnox@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago

I believe it was Siemens MC60. I remember getting my arm broken and then getting 10k CZK from the accident benefits. Parents asked me what I wanted for part of that money when I was in the hospital and I said this.

Then I bought a refurbished Treo 650 in 2015, an awesome piece of technology if only it had a WiFi (there was a possibility of a module that clipped on the back which had its own battery, or there were WiFi SDIO cards, but I, being a poor student who poured all his savings into the phone (yeah, very bad financial decision), couldn't afford either of them.

I still miss a phone like that, but with a modern chipset and maybe a better OS (but still somehow based on the PalmOS original path)

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago

Motorola KRZR

God that phone sucked. It was so slow. I always wondered why Gameboy could be so damned fast, yet a phone with a much more powerful soc struggled just to bring up my contacts? They needed video game devs making the phone OS.

[–] mkhopper@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I had a Sanyo SCP 7400 (clamshell) for a number of years during the mid-2000s and it was solid as a rock. Loved that phone.

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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

[–] TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] notthebees@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago

Nokia 2680 Slide.

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

[–] aard@kyu.de 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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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[–] lemann@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Nokia 8210. It was small and awesome. It was before small became lame.

[–] Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

My last non-Andorid phone was a Motorola Krzr. It was a little longer and much less wide than a Razr. If I couldn't have a smartphone I would go back to that design in a second. It worked very well.

[–] exothermic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] GenesisJones@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I think it was the Octane

[–] ares35@kbin.social 2 points 2 years 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.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Had a Samsung F250L. Neat little phone, decent camera for the time I've had it (2008-13). As much as I'd like some dumb phones again, the very least it'd had to have is fucking whatsapp, otherwise i'd be the "incommunicado". I suspect something running KaiOS would suffice

[–] DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Alcatel OT606A with slide out keyboard

[–] SecretPancake@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Samsung D900 was my last dumbphone. It was pretty cool. But my fav is still the Moto Razr v3.

[–] DudeBro@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I don't remember the name, but it was some Samsung phone with a relatively low resolution touch screen and a slide out keyboard. I got so good at texting with the slide out keyboard, god I miss those.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 1 points 2 years ago

Alias 2 and I still have it packed away in a box.

[–] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Motorola A1200, black one. Not exactly dumb phone but it wasn't Android either. I love that device. Sadly they were never cheap, now days included. They are full Linux phone with GSM modules in kernel and no restrictions what so ever, so they are super popular with GSM hackers.

[–] thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Newegg used to sell this one dumb phone for like $12. Completely unbranded garbage but it made calls and did sms.

My brother used to lose his phone or drop it in the toilet constantly. We had like 3 or 4 of that crappy phone just because he kept doing stupid stuff.

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