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
When I was a little 1980s kid, my family got rid of a malfunctioning wall-mounted rotary phone which had been installed there since time immemorial. I asked if I could keep it and my mom said no, but she did let me exercise my curiosity by taking it apart to see what the innards were like.
I kept the dial, and it still lives on a shelf of mildly-interesting things in my house. It still spins, though the recoil speed is way slower than it should be
(I also grew up to be a phone phreak.)
I didn't take apart a phone to get it, but I managed to buy a rotary dial mechanism from a surplus store near where I grew up when I was a teen (maybe thirty years ago?). I think I've still got it in a drawer. It's honestly a very clever design, and the sound is kind of weirdly soothing.
Man casually shows off his h dial
It was such a simple yet fun device. It had really good sound and an equaliser, which was special at the time. Played loads of music on it. Great battery life too. No WiFi, but honestly, that might be a plus nowadays.
Motorola Droid 2. I just miss keyboard sliders.
The sony ericsson xperia pro was my dream phone because of how it looked with the keyboard slider. Timeless design imo
I had the original Droid and Droid 3, both great phones for the first year then rapidly declined into junk. That first year was great, though!
I actually do kind of miss my windows phone LOL
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.
The Nokia Lumias were really interesting
i wish they'd bring those back, i totally missed that era
Me too. I didn't even have famcy ones. I had the cheap $20 Nokia 520
Yes, all my various BlackBerrys.
Occasionally I miss my old Nexus 5. The screen felt so big at the time and I loved it's sharp edges
Nexus 5 peak android customization, I had cyanogen mod dual booted with stock android.
I was infatuated not with the 5, but with the Nexus 5X design in white. That era of android was soo clean
1961 Bell System Model 554 Rotary Dial Wall Telephone
LG used to put really good DACs in their phones. So for somebody who uses his phone as an MP3 player that can also take calls, my LG V30 was perfect.
I loved my V50... until it got baaaad screen burn-in. Older OLED screens were kinda crappy tbh
Nokia n900 for me, circa 2010. It ran Linux (real Linux!), had a pretty good camera, headphone jack, sd card slot, slide out keyboard, 4or 5 day battery life, xmpp instant messaging natively. It was perfect. It was a little bit chunky, but would fit in a jeans pocket perfectly and didn’t weigh too much.
Sony Xperia Z3 Compact
Palm Centro
Palm Pre
Motorola Droid
Motorola RAZR V3M
My purse got stolen once and my Sony Ericsson T300 (and my favorite lipstick) were in it, and nothing will ever emotionally live up to that phone. I loved it and I probably love it more because it was taken from me before I got tired of it.
HTC m8 and m9. Those were such good phones...
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.
My Nokia 6800
HTC Windows Phone 8S. The Windows Phone was actually really nice and it's kinda sad it was discontinued.
I miss the promise of WebOS and the palm Pre series. The 2 and 3 were in the right direction, and then HP 🔥
+1 For the Palm Pre series. My wife still misses her Pixi and I went as far as making a FrankenPre 3 to keep using one.
Palm Pre the undisputed goat for me. Good keyboard, most comfortable shape, next level software.
The Sidekick II. Bought it for $350 and sold it a year later for $300. Was a fun phone for a year and well worth the $50.
God I miss the sidekick, or really any physical keyboard phones. Touchpads just don't do it for me
The snap of a clamshell
OG Moto Droid with the sliding keyboard.
Brilliant design, would love that again.
Loved the physical keyboard. I could write out entire paragraphs without looking at the screen. I think I replaced that keyboard two or three times before I finally retired it.
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.
HTC Desire, my first Android and smartphone ever. I made a lot of Java applications on that thing. Maybe I should learn Kotlin to do the same on my current phone.
The Sidekick 4G. I miss physical keyboards on mobile devices.
Nexus 5 is still my favorite phone I’ve owned. Affordable, no-nonsense, and lightweight.
God I miss having flagship phone that would fit into my hand.
Also I miss windows phones. Fuck Microsoft, but they tried something different and imo it worked if you went in with an open mind.
I hella want a modern Sidekick. Mostly for the physical keyboard.
iPhone 4S was one of my favorite phones. It was around the golden age of jailbreaking in my opinion. So much fun.
If we are going back before smartphones, then the RAZR V3i was a fun phone. SEEM editing was pretty sweet. Like, why was rhythm lights even a thing?
The Nokia 6820 will always have a special place in my heart as well. It was such a perfect little texting machine.
My Nexus 6P with the finger print sensor on the back. It supported gestures on the fingerprint sensor too, so you could unlock it and then swipe up or down to do an action. I had down swipe as pull down the notification shade, so could check notifications without even touching the screen.
So many lol
The T-Mobile G1 was incredible. I wish they would remake it for today. A slide out keyboard, and a little mouse ball. It was fucking fantastic.
Blackberry 7230, I think. I looked up the timeline, and that looks like the right one, but the article says it was color. Mine was black and white. My mom got it for me because I loved to read, and could use it to read books outside.
Blackberry 7100t was peak. First time I watched Internet porn was on that phone lol
And at one point between the blackberry and my first android, my mom got me this phone with a built in MP3 player. It was so friggin thick, but it could hold so much music, and had an awesome camera. Around the same time, my buddy had a phone with a camera with a telescopic lense that looked more like a traditional camera than a phone.
Palm Pre. Aside from the OS itself, I miss the little paratrooper game that was seemingly, unfortunately, exclusive to WebOS.
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