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.
I think it was the Alias 2 or 3
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I think it was a 2nd-hand Nokia N-Gage someone gave me. Weird phone.
Oh how I miss the days of simple yet complex innovation.
I had the flip shot (camera phone that flipped into a digital camera) from Verizon and the LG chocolate (slide up phone).
Both were amazing. Though I'd have to say my favorite was the tmobile sidekick.
Never had a Sidekick but I always thought they looked satisfyingly functional
I forget the name but it was the same style at the LG FlipShot.
I think it was the Octane
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.
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.
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.
Nokia 5228, those times were great when friends sent me some music using the bluetooth
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.
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.
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)
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.
Nokia 3510i if I recall.
I think I also had a cheap Motorola flip phone too.
Nokia C5-00.
Nokia 8210. It was small and awesome. It was before small became lame.
Probably Siemens C65 as my first smartphone was Siemens SXG75.
But later I got a Sony Ericsson K800 which is a feature phone, then I got a more mainstream smartphone Nokia N95 8Gb.
Nit sure what it was called, but I'm pretty sure that not only it's the last Qwerty keyboard phone i used, it's also one of the last phone Nokia sold in my country.
Got my first smartphone in 2017. My first dumbphone in 2008. Late to both parties.
I had a Sony Ericsson W595i before my first smartphone (which was a Vodafone 845)
I loved Sony Ericssons, had a bunch of them, because they were extremely moddable through VKP patches. it ran Doom natively 😄