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minus-squareBlaster M@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-217 days agoSamsung Gleam. That was peak cellphone.
minus-squareDominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·17 days agoMy favorite of all the phones I have owned:
minus-squarepheonixdown@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·17 days agoUlefone’s got your back for weird phones.
minus-squareu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·17 days agoRather Unihertz. They basically have just the unusual phones. Currently I have Ulefone Armor 24, but I’d want something like Oukitel WP100 Titan. Even larger and crazier. Look at that 33Ah thing: Almost brick size now. It’s so ridiculous I want it. After all, what I have now isn’t far from if, it’s just that this is even bigger. 3.6cm (1.4 inch) thick, 877g (1.93lbs) heavy. But somehow it still can’t fit a headphone jack and MicroSD card slot, so that’s a no for me.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·17 days agoLost my Oukitel WP33 Pro. :( Really neat phone, weight like a Colt .45, and about as easy to carry.
minus-squarerottingleaf@lemmy.worldBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·17 days agoThose phones were really convenient, taking just as much place in your pocket as needed, screen covered from being scratched by keys and other items. Actually convenient keyboards. It’s just that why make ergonomic, optimized for the task, price-efficient things when a piece of useless crap called iPhone makes you more. I swear, for market economies to work you need to outlaw advertising.
minus-squareBlaster M@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-217 days agoflip phones were great as phones, but terrible as pdas. iPhone combined the two in a non-chunky way (competitors? Palm Treo? Windows Mobile phones?)
minus-squareBags@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-217 days agoMany years ago Nokia made a couple prototypes of an official Star Trek communicator phone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3EN05faZVU I would do some seriously regrettable things to have one of these that works with modern networks.
Samsung Gleam. That was peak cellphone.
My favorite of all the phones I have owned:
Ulefone’s got your back for weird phones.
Rather Unihertz. They basically have just the unusual phones.
Currently I have Ulefone Armor 24, but I’d want something like Oukitel WP100 Titan. Even larger and crazier.
Look at that 33Ah thing:

Almost brick size now. It’s so ridiculous I want it. After all, what I have now isn’t far from if, it’s just that this is even bigger.
3.6cm (1.4 inch) thick, 877g (1.93lbs) heavy.
But somehow it still can’t fit a headphone jack and MicroSD card slot, so that’s a no for me.
Lost my Oukitel WP33 Pro. :( Really neat phone, weight like a Colt .45, and about as easy to carry.
Those phones were really convenient, taking just as much place in your pocket as needed, screen covered from being scratched by keys and other items.
Actually convenient keyboards.
It’s just that why make ergonomic, optimized for the task, price-efficient things when a piece of useless crap called iPhone makes you more.
I swear, for market economies to work you need to outlaw advertising.
flip phones were great as phones, but terrible as pdas. iPhone combined the two in a non-chunky way (competitors? Palm Treo? Windows Mobile phones?)
“Kirk to Enterprise…”
Many years ago Nokia made a couple prototypes of an official Star Trek communicator phone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3EN05faZVU
I would do some seriously regrettable things to have one of these that works with modern networks.