They don’t make them small like they used to…
I miss my Nexus 6. It was my first Android phone, and got me into tinkering with android. I remember that the device codename, relevant for finding compatible ROMs, was “shamu”. I miss that big old whale
A lot of what I miss is the software side of things. Google Assistant used to be way more capable than it is now. And now they’re replacing that entirely with Gemini.
My old Motorola Razr. I used to like flipping it open like a Star Trek communicator, but it was also just a cool little phone.
The aesthetic on top of the fact that a whole phone could be made so thin was such a lasting iconic (fun) era
I actually do kind of miss my windows phone LOL
Same. It was SHIT but the battery was epic and i used to spend time on it playing shite games on long train journeys.
Omg you know what, when I had one it was still called Windows Mobile, not Windows Phone yet. Games weren’t really big yet!
Haha. It was backgammon, don’t think I had the option for anything more high end.
Me too. I didn’t even have famcy ones. I had the cheap $20 Nokia 520
My Lumia is still the best phone I’ve ever had. It still works, to an extent, despite having fallen out of my pocket at biking speed multiple times. Unfortunately everyone and their dog uses WhatsApp now so when WhatsApp decided to stop supporting my model, it became nearly useless. I’m still angry about it.
One of the few benefits of being American, no one is using whatsapp
Seemed so bizarre at the time, but the changeups it had made for a fun experience
Nokia with Windows Phone is great. It is still the best interface just right before MS made it worse with WP10 IMO. It is still amazing to me that when I gave one to my mom back when she was changing from a normal non touch screen phone, she immediately gets it and I don’t have to coach.
And I personally also like the design philosophy behind WP 7 up until 8.1. I just can’t get behind WP10 and later.
The Nokia Lumias were really interesting
i wish they’d bring those back, i missed that era
My nokia windows phone was the best. Stylish, great battery, great camera.
Windows phone with the tiles remains the best phone interface by far. Since then i’ve had to make my own custom interface because i can’t go back to ugly ass icons.
I love the concept of that launcher, so much I’ve tried it numerous times.
In the end, a launcher just doesn’t work for me. But that tiled UI is definitely the best approach I’ve seen.
Nokia 6133, Flip phone that had a button which popped it open. Nothing else has felt as cool as pushing that button to answer a call.
Honestly…. No.
My old phones were crap and I don’t miss them. First phone had phantom key presses and thought it was just a browser (lg chat). My iPhone 4s has horrific battery life. Next 2 were cheap Chinese phones which parasitic bloat (blu). Then I went into Xaiomi with a phone with broken GPS, and another with broken cameras. Ok otherwise.
I now have an iPhone 15 Pro. It’s good enough I almost don’t think of it. But I kind of wish I got a Fairphone.
My touch slide. Texting was so tactile and fun. I had snake on it and one more game I can’t remember. I didn’t need more.
Oh boy how I miss using this bad boy:
this with Linux would bang!!! I hope that Jolla created the Other Half
The Nokia N900 and N950 were phones like that, came with Linux, and did indeed bang.
Too late for Linux phones, too early for Linux phones u_u
I still have hopes for Jolla.
I want my LG V20 back.
Built in quad-dac that beat fiio devices, and it came apart in 16 screws. Hell all the connectors where even on ribbon cables for ezpz repair jobs
I miss that fuckin thing so much.
Make that phone with a modern SoC, Graphene OS, and a pine-phone esque back-cover keyboard, and I’d be in cellular heaven.
Was that the one with the quick reload battery slot, or was that the v10? Either way those phones were sick
you can still use these phones.
i have discord and signal messenger on my nokia 7110 with wap-browser shenanigans
That’s actually really cool. I’d love to see a write-up on how you setup the whole thing
there’s discord-wap which is a self hosted discord bride that translates discord into wml 1.1 which is readable by wap browsers
i vibecoded a signal-cli bridge but it’s embarassing to say the least and it’s a security nightmare (at least it works)
depending on what kind of phone you use there’s either a csd or gprs connection.
both need a working gateway
a user named bs0dd made a comprehensive guide on how to set up a gateway and even setting up your own dial-up connection for older csd phones.
csd is hard to setup though, in my country (germany) it only works with vodafone sim cards or (as i currently do it) you can connect to a foreign dial-up connection, some of these still exist lol
i would suggest looking into the reddit community /r/vintagemobilephones and especially their discord. the community is very active and currently still working on projects
This is such a cool rabbit hole! I’ll make sure to check those guides, thanks for sharing them
Perfect size and shape, good button response, no distracting apps, could provide mobile-internet over IR to a laptop (eg Satellite Pro 4200)(speed was in between 33.6kbps and 56 kbps) .
WAP was a nonsense gimmick.
Solid phone.
Yes, and of phones I’ve never had and always wanted. The phone I had that I reminisce is my Nokia 808 PureView. The camera stack is revolutionary for its time that everyone basically uses it in bad and cost cutting ways IMO. But truly the best thing about it is the microphone. To this day I am still not impressed with. Sure I’m no techtuber that can get overpriced phones but even watching review videos and using headphones in their video recording sections the sound captured is okay at best.
The phones that I reminisce that I never had but always wanted is the Nokia N86 and many of the Nokia keyboard slider phones. the N86 is just because it is a normal slide phone usually, except that it can slide down to reveal music playback buttons. Nokia horizontal keyboard slider is just a nerd dream. Oh and the Nokia N900. And the Nokia N9. I might be a Nokia fanboy back I’m the day
Blackberry phones worked everywhere, anywhere in the world, it was the only system that worked during 9/11.
physical keyboards were faster and more accurate.
I want to say the Motorola Droid, but the Droid III had a dedicated number row which was amazing. Either those or my old Razr v3.
Nokia N9, it was my first smartphone, it ran Linux, as in you could run sudo apt install in it and yes, sudo worked and you could get root access from factory. It was very sturdy, keyboard did some vibrations when you pressed so you got some tactile feedback which was invaluable in convincing me to use a phone with no buttons, it had gesture navigation which took years to arrive in other phones, plus some games I never got to finish and now I can’t play anymore.
I still have my N9 left in a drawer, and it still works if I want to open it for a bit of nostalgia. It’s really small compared to today’s phones.
I also have my Jolla there too, but that one has a cracked screen.
I miss my old Xpera XA 1 ultra, it had a great camera and i loved the design and wallpaper even if it wasn’t the best of phones.
