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ByteOnBikes ,

I felt like I skipped this. People my age went to pagers, then sidekick phones, then touch screens.

I went from beeper, to flip phone, then palm pilot.

I must have had serious Wallstreet Stock Broker energy as a teenager.

TriflingToad ,

In thought the SMS said SUS and got really confused for a second

ODuffer ,
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The Nokia N900 was my fond memory. It ran a version of Linux, opening ‘terminal’ on my phone never got old.

dual_sport_dork ,
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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…

ODuffer ,
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I never spoke to anyone so it was fine lol

HeerlijkeDrop ,

Do we have any community for vintage phones already?

Vince ,

Still waiting for HTC to make a G3 :-(

HejMedDig ,

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

ShareMySims ,

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

HejMedDig ,

My previous phone was a Nokia 6289

A colleague had a Nokia 9110 back in 1998, that was very advanced back then

ShareMySims ,

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

nayminlwin ,

My first smartphone is HTC and it looked like yours, but with android.

Deebster ,
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That’s the first Android phone, the HTC Dream (or TMobile G1). I loved this phone, even if it was chronically underpowered.

FartsWithAnAccent ,
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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.

tiredofsametab ,

I had a similar one that ran windows (CE maybe? I don't recall)

IndiBrony ,
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I had one of these! Qwerty keyboard on a phone is a thing I sorely miss.

octopus_ink ,

Everyone seems to, except major phone manufacturers. 😡

Omniraptor ,

Maybe someone could make a kickstarter

theskyisfalling ,

There have been plenty, some that have come to fruition. The first and only thing I have ever back was the planet computers “Astro Slide”, I will never participate in crowd funding again after that fucking shit show.

At the end of the day though they don’t usually attract enough backers to really make a decent product out if it, which is a shame.

dual_sport_dork ,
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Unihertz makes a couple of modern keyboard phones but none of them are sliders.

theskyisfalling ,

Yeh,i had the titan for around a year and a half. It was a decent piece of hardware with a keyboard that was fairly decent (not as good as blackberry still).

The problem with them is the software and support. The keyboards just about work but aren’t integrated into the whole experience like you got with a blackberry. It always felt a bit awkward and some choices were just weird, as if the programmers never tried actually using what they programmed.

I tried to put a custom ROM on mine but could never get the boot loader to unlock as it should have so ultimately I gave up as the positives for me of having a keyboard were being outweighed by the jank

wildbus8979 ,

www.fxtec.com/smartphones/pro1x

simple ,

I mean it sounds good on paper but who’s going to want to buy a phone that’s 2x thicker because it has a sliding keyboard? No doubt it’ll be really expensive to make too.

lightnsfw ,

I don’t understand the obsession with thinness. My phone has a case on it and already is like 2x as thick as a current phone and it’s fine. If anything it makes it easier to hold on to and type on. While I don’t care about having a physical keyboard, there’s a lot of other stuff they could do if they didn’t care so much about making it as thin as possible.

dual_sport_dork ,
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I don’t get why people go around acting like these phones did not physically exist in the past in significant numbers, and both the “expense” and thickness problems were not, in fact, problems.

My old Galaxy S Relay 4G was not appreciably any thicker than my current phone is with its case on it. And the Blackberry Priv I had after that was still exactly as thin as current modern phones.

simple ,

You’re comparing the market 10+ years ago to the market now… Your old phone was tiny compared to modern phones, which is a market that barely exists anymore because people prefer larger screens. It’s one thing for a smaller phone to have a sliding keyboard, but slapping one on an already big phone would make it heavier and clunkier to use. The fact that touch screens are way bigger means that using a touch screen keyboard is much easier than it used to be, making slide out keyboards unnecessary.

I don’t understand why every tech community acts like their niche opinions apply to the whole market. “Everyone wants small phones, we all want sliding keyboards, remember when operating systems were simple?” etc etc. I guarantee you if someone ACTUALLY made the type of phone you want it would barely sell and be seen as a gimmick.

Eiri ,

I loved my Samsung Galaxy Q. But now that I’m used to gesture typing, I wouldn’t go back. It’s much faster than hitting keys individually with my thumbs.

One thing I do miss though is how quick it was to select/copy/paste.

TheEighthDoctor ,

Or AZERTY in this case

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