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.
Bring back sliders with full keyboards
Being back T9. I could text with it in my pocket.
What duh the ib huwdb I j texted from my pitcher just fine.
I really want one, I hate virtual keyboards so much. There’s the f(x)tec phones but their keyboards come out in landscape mode and I’d really rather have one where it’s portrait like the Palm Pre
I got one of them tiny foldable bluetooth keyboards for anything longer than replies. Brings it with me everywhere, it’s super handy.
Yet not as handy as a slide out keyboard.
Is f(x)tec actually a thing? Like have they actually started shipping phones to customers?
I never saw one where the keys were big enough that I didn’t mash everything around the target key with the size of my fingers, and I really don’t have big hands or anything.
The BlackBerry Curve has my favorite keyboard, and I DO have big hands!
The size of the keys are not really the issue, the size of the spacing around them is.
I had an HTC Tilt back when the first iPhone was released. Aside from that phone running windows mobile (holy Christ, what a mess that was), I loved it so much. But then I finally joined the cult at the 3GS.
Motorola DROID 4 was my dream phone. Alas, it was never released down here, so I could never buy one, even used.
or BlackBerry key approach
my first smart phone was a Motorola Droid that had a physical keyboard. Cameras have come a long way.
I miss those… ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ
motorola razr
I paid $400 for one of these brand new and it was ludicrous at the time. I thought it was super cool though.
So did I, and it was. Don’t let anyone tell you differently.
Best phone ever. I read through whole libraries on that little thing, and it looks so futuristic (as long as you don’t look at the 500 pixel screen or the 140p camera)
I still have my champagne Razr around here somewhere. It works, even looks pretty new.
As a huge Formula 1 and Ferrari fan I had a Razr Maxx V6 Ferrari edition.
Nokia 3310
This was mine, which I used from 2001 until 2011. I loved that phone
I would not call these on the picture “dumb phones” though.
I had a Motorola phone. I actually liked it because it had a really good camera. The native photo editor was also top notch at the time.
They were called “feature phones” at the time.
I always liked the color.
I always thought this was such a cute phone
LG Env, I actually miss it.
I had the env2. Hands down, my favorite phone to date.
Oh ya I remember wanting that one a lot! I think it was too expensive for me at the time, so ended up with the alias 2 but I envied anyone who had one of those.
ENV2 gang. Great phone.
I had a pink Moto SLVR L7
I had the same model but in black. I still have it somewhere.
Same! I’m pretty sure that was also my smallest phone, before they started going the other direction.
Does BlackBerry count as a dumb phone? I have a hard time calling it a smart phone.
This isn’t my hand but I had this lovely bastard:
I used to be able to chuck it down the stairs and everything.
Haha! This! I still have mine in my treasure box of 1990s-2010s tech, with my iPod and my green Gameboy pocket.
My “iPod Classic”, for all its faults, had survived going under a bus’s wheel unscathed and falling off my bike at speed a few times before I finally consigned it to the box of electronic stuff I wasn’t going to take with me when I emigrated three years ago. The Gameboy colour’s in the cupboard as I type! I might even bring it with me when society collapses and I have to forage.
LG enV… Clamshell phone with a full keyboard when opened… God, that phone was awesome
The enV3 was either my last or one of them. Yeah, it was pretty great.
enV 2 for me, used that thing until my senior year in 2013
Motorola Razr babyyyyy
I had this sick LG car phone and it made vroom vroom sounds. Used it for a decade and I still have it and it still works.
I had the Envy 2, the last phone I had with an actual physical keyboard.
It’s the one feature I miss the most. If I could have smartphone functionality with a physical keyboard I would be much happier.
I think about this all the time. I’ll give up being waterproof for a full-sized slide-out keyboard.
SonyEricsson w810i. It was a great phone and an upgrade from my earlier SonyEricsson T610. The w810i is in my bedroom drawer.
I got the first Android smart phone after those (G1/Dream) which I still have in my kitchen drawer.
Happy memories texting my mates in uni. God so much has changed in 20yrs. 😱
Mine was Sony Ericsson V630.
It endured me untill 2012 when I exchanged it for Sony Xperia T, it’s second best phone I had.
A other happy v630i user here. Don’t know how many years I spent all in all, but I used it for everything. Even remember loading some books as text files, and reading quite a lot on its tiny screen during the longer bus rides.
The w810i was my first ever mobile phone and also my last dumb phone. I used it for 9 years.
I used it for 9 years.
Exactly - phones used to last! I also dropped my w810i a few times but it never broke. Great little phone. In fact I’m gonna charge mine to have a play on it. I think it had an MP3 player too!
It was still working back then, I changed because i was getting tired of typing on the small keys. I could type without looking, this was pretty cool ! All of the key had worn off anyway 😂
