My htc hero had a track ball. Peak android right there. Also literally the first android in the US if I recall correctly.

I still sometimes think about my Nokia Lumia 730, my first smartphone. It was an absolute joy to use. The live tiles which was implemented so badly in PC looked so cool on phone.

Windows phone was light and fluid unlike the bloated Touchwiz most people used on their Samsungs those days. Things weren’t always rosy though, I used to wait for turns to get my hands on my friend’s android just so I could play the multiplayer games which didnt have a port. Never could follow the latest trending photo filter app , i think one was name prisma. Now I think it was probably for the best.

Held on to it as much as I could but with the app ecosystem not expanding and several services limited to just Android and IOS, I had to give it up.

I sometimes wish I had my old nokia. the indestructible brick one.

mostly because i fucking hate smartphones and the always-online-ness.

Rip helio ocean, dual slider t9 and keyboard

Microsoft is now the architect of a lot of shit. But the Windows Phone systems were surprisingly good, and a competitive alternative to iOS and Android. Even using Internet Explorer for its browser wasn’t so bad, since it was the late years of the browser when they understood standards compliance was critical, and followed them entirely.

Its moderate success in outer regions was delivered as an overpromise that lead to Windows 8 as a very “fullscreen touchscreen” OS, so it especially sucks that its follow-on legacy was so tarnished.

Nokia n900. It was everything a smart phone should have been in the first place.

The snap of a clamshell

I still have, in my little nostalgia cash box, a Nokia phone from the early 2000s that has Nokia Bowling on it. Doesn’t have an adapter, but I’m not letting that phone go.

I miss my old Nokia 6800 Typing was so nice on that phone.

Nope. I never really got into phones. The only reason I bought my smartphone, is because society demanded it. You can’t access many things without one.

My first and only smartphone is an iPhone 16, all the previous cellphones were cheap dumbphones for about $20. If possible, I prefer using email and a PC browser, because desktop computing is my natural habitat.

Phones suck. I have to pay a subscription for something that I don’t like using, and barely touch most weeks.

My Nexus 4. Great phone! I regret giving it away after I broke the screen for the second time by stupidity. It was light, fast and beautiful

It was a terrible games machine, it was a terrible phone, but it was weird and interesting, the Nokia N-Gage

Loved that weird thing

Alot … My lovely LG Optimus G ❤️ 😢

I always wanted the “phone” John Connor used in T2 to hack the ATMs

Atari Portfolio

I reminisce about the time when I would get a new phone and then spent a whole day going through the settings and tweaking stuff.

Setting up a new phone now is arguably easier and faster but also just boring