So that new phone announcement happened this week. That got my small group of friends listing out all the phones they’ve had.
I super miss the simple phones. I’ve been thinking of going with a dumb phone except for weeks when I’m oncall for work. Just not sure how to do the switch with esim on modern iPhones? I’ve already turned most things off on my iPhone. Nice thing is I get 2+ days of battery now by not using it much and turning most background stuff off.
These have been mine (I think).
Motorola Talkabout T192 - 2001-ish
Motorola V300 - 2003-ish
Motorola/Nextel i870 - 2005-ish
iPhone 3 - 2008
iPhone 5s - 2013
iPhone 10x - 2018
iPhone 15 pro - 2023
The first cell phone I had was one of those original Motorola phones where the bottom half flipped down to expose the keypad and the antenna was one you had to pull out. With the big chonky battery it looked kinda like a cybertruck. I don’t even remember what the model was (and I’m too lazy to look it up).
My phones:
That ancient Motorola phone
Some slim, candy-bar Sprint phone (had T9!)
Handspring Treo (later bought by Palm)
Palm Pre (still my favorite phone to this day)
Samsung S3
Samsung S5
Samsung S6
Samsung S8
Samsung S10+
Samsung S20+ Ultra 5G (current)
Contemplating getting a 1Plus {$CURRENT_MODEL} mainly because it runs LineageOS OOB (I think) and I want less Google Android. Might try to just go GrapheneOS on the S20 before I do that, though. I don’t really miss the dumb phones too much (because who talks on the phone these days, really?), but I do miss the simpler times when there was just voice and text capability and that was about it. Throw in a calendar and an alarm clock and I’m all for simpler.
Yeah I think I remember my mother got that og motorola trapezoid thing.
I totally forgot Palm didn’t make those things originally and it was Handspring first!
That fairphone runs e/os which seems interesting but man there’s a huge markup for that thing in the US. If my phone broke today I’d probably try to make due with the Sunbeam F1.
yeah, I’d totally give Fairphone a try if it didn’t cost a damn arm and a leg to get one here in the US. Not that the 1Plus is “cheap”…
I was SO MAD when I had to get a new Treo (my original Handspring one flew off a roller coaster!) and the new one was a Palm branded one. Handspring used to be the shit, which is I guess why Palm bought them.
The Pre is still my favorite phone I’ve ever owned, even to this day. It was way ahead of it’s time, but Palm was such a shitshow that they mismanaged it right into the ground. Everything was all about patents with them and fighting Apple.
What’s even funnier is that a) not only did I find and retrieve it after the ride was over, but b) it still worked for like 8 months after that (although it did have a few odd behaviors every now and then as a result).
That thing was kind of a brick, man. Like, you could use it as a self-defense device by just chucking it at somebody.
I have had too many phones to list. My first one was as large as a small car battery with an actual phone receiver in a spiral wire on top. Battery only lasted half a day.
First mobile phone sized phone was the ericsson GA628 (iirc) and it was very modern as you could change parts of the cover (keypad background) to other colors of plastic.
First smartphone was the Ericsson R380 which was way ahead of its time.
From there i have had maybe 10 different nokias (first being 3210 which i got directly from the nokia R&D office and hende it had all sorts of crazy extra feature like cell tower triangulation of callers).
From there i went for ipaq, htc, LG and my last 15 phones has been Samsung (I have had test phones from xiaomi, oppo, oneplus, motorola, fair, blackphone,and a few others). I have never owned an apple phone and never will.
But Pixels are the prime target for alternate booters like LineageOS and GrapheneOS, yeah? Might be possible to keep the quality hardware and de-Google it to some extent. Or am I way off base here?
No, you’re right. I’m thinking of more of when I have to replace it because it brakes/fries/whatever. If it’s still going strong by the time it’s updates end, I’m going to look into GrapheneOS, /e/OS or something.
