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.
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.
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.
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)
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 wish phones would go back to being unique. I want a slider with a physical keyboard (like the HTC EVO Shift). My Pixel 6 Pros battery is showing wear already but there’s nothing on the market I feel is worth switching to.
Just wish modern devices still had easily removable back covers without needing pry tools and hair dryers.
I loved the early galaxies and the zero lemon batteries. They were ridiculously cheap, so you could have like 3 charged at any time. Then if you ever got robbed you could just say “e-waste!” And toss a dead battery at your assailants eyes.
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.
LG Env, I actually miss it.
I had the env2. Hands down, my favorite phone to date.
ENV2 gang. Great phone.
I always liked the color.
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.
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
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.
A Nokia 3100 … it was the first phone I bought, and I kept it through college and beyond.
The thing was a beast :-)
128x128 pixel screen, with 12-bit RGB. No WiFi, no Bluetooth. Had some web access with WAP (no not that! “Wireless Access Protocol”). It did have a camera module though /rofl
And best of all, the battery lasted a week!
Does BlackBerry count as a dumb phone? I have a hard time calling it a smart phone.
A Samsung slider. I remember watching the Matrix the first time, and when that phone popped open to reveal the keypad it was mind-blowing. Getting a slider phone a few years later was so satisfying.
The phone in the movie was a Nokia. I believe it was the 7910, if memory serves me correctly.
The spring loaded slide wasn’t really a thing. I think one version of the phone had it in the production release, but it was limited to a very small geographical area… I think somewhere in Asia? I forget.
Everywhere else had the phone to some extent, minus the spring loaded sliding action. You just had up push the cover down.
Source: my best friend had one. After… I think, 3? Years of owning it, he was so fed up with its dumb quirks that I think he snapped the slider thing off… Which had the mic in it, so he got a new phone right after that.
EDIT: I was mistaken, it was the Nokia 7110.
An Apple iPhone! Hahaha, I kid. . . . . I use Arch, btw.
