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 always thought this was such a cute phone
A Nokia Ngage , it was a Gameboy phone combo
Last time in my life that I was cool.
Nokia n70. Still think about it sometimes, it was a great little phone.
Nokia N93
My first smartphone was HTC HD2 which I replaced around 2016 for Pixel, which I still use.I had the n95 and I loved it as well. the N-series was fantastic.
but they are sadly smartphones.
N93 definitely a smartphone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N93?wprov=sfla1
I forget the name but it was the same style at the LG FlipShot.
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. 😱
Dude I loved my Envy 2, played so much Tetris in the bathroom at work!
Nokia N75. It was an upgrade from a Sony Ericsson hand-me-down after my invincible Nokia was thrown out of the window of my car as it was being stolen (I called it and the thief answered… long story).
The N75 had a 2mp camera and MP3 playing, but tiny storage and I got a free iPod (the touch wheel one) with a college powebook around the same time. I used the N75 online once, to locate a restaurant one time, and it probably cost my $3-5 since I had no data plan.
This was a right before the iPhone 3G would make those affordable and launch the App Store. I bought that for my wife and we never went back.
Nokia N75 us a smartphone with Symbian OS.
Technically, but it was useless for any of the things that we use in smart phones. It had terrible web browsing, no GPS. Very few apps outside of games. T9 typing (which should have disqualified it in the first place). It was a camera phone that they tried to upsell as a smartphone and a big part of why Nokia lost so much market to Apple and later Android.
Smartphones used to have a different purpose than they do now. Just because it doesn’t have a querty keyboard, doesn’t mean it’s not a smartphone. Just look at the first iPhone, it’s just as useless, it didn’t even have the ability to install apps (imo it’s a must for smartphones) , yet hardly anyone will dispute whether it was a smartphone.
iPhone had gps and mapping and really nice full website browsing, plus bigger storage and music (since we all wanted iPod phones before then).
I’d argue one of the bigger factors in its success was that it had an unlimited data plan (which I never should have let go of).
The N75 may have had Bluetooth, the OS, and a browser, but lacked the UI to use it. It was a camera phone marketed as a smartphone because it launched right after the first iPhone.
The last phone I had before I got an Android phone was an LG EnV2. I still have the thing, it still turns on though no networks support it and the battery is toast. Sometimes I just hold it in my hand for a few minutes because it’s just such a nicer thing to interact with than my S10e.
I don’t really count it as a “dumb phone” though. I had some Samsung slider before that that really was a “Camera phone.” Effectively no web browser, no app ecosystem at all, you could barely get the pictures it took out of it. The EnV2 was USB, there were games and things you could get for it, it had some email and web capability.
Then I got my LG Ally phone running some android version from before they started naming them after sweets, and it’s all been downhill from there.
you could barely get the pictures it took out of it.
Ugh. I had some kind of old Samsung flip phone in the late 2000’s and I had a picture on it of my ATV hanging upside down in the top of a tree. Easily 20m high. But I had trouble getting the pic off the phone, and now the phone is long gone.
Like they seriously thought “this camera is 100% for MMS messages, no one will want to keep the photos they take.”
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)
The nokia BRICK. No clue its really name but we all know the phone. It was my first phone i got when i entered high school.
Nokia C5-00.
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Don’t remember the exact model but something like this Nokia 1110.
Sony W980
