Remember when Android had soul?

>>105770881 (OP)
No, I do not.

It was way better

>another zoomer retard thread

>>105770881 (OP)
I would still be using my Nexus 5 if the battery was user replacable.

Android 4...
Home...

>>105770881 (OP)
android has always been a cheap iphone knockoff ever since they stopped making phones with physical keyboards so I switched to iOS and never looked back. if I am going to be forced to use a touch screen, imma enjoy it. I don't want a wish.com knockoff device. I want Coke not store brand cola.

>>105771253
>food analogy
>name nigger
lmao

>>105771429
Food analogies are rhetorically acceptable, useful even. Your post is like finding a fly in a shit soup, for instance.

>>105771450
>thinks about shit
SAAAR

>>105770881 (OP)
Remember when the USA loved to preach about the free market?

>>105771500
Good thing I'm not an American iFaggot

>>105770881 (OP)
I was there for this era, and it was terrible

>>105770881 (OP)
No, it was always shit

>>105770881 (OP)
Being a kid with both of these was the most based feeling in the world. Having technology back then just made everyone assume you were a genius
(and rich, which I was not.) Most adults were still getting their first smartphones at the time.

>>105770881 (OP)
This was the last time those 3 buttons looked cool, is there any way to change them to this on current Android?

everyone whined about the bezels

>>105770967
>Complains about not having soul while using buzzwords
This entire board doesn't have a sliver of self awareness I see

>>105772957
ywnbaw

90% of this board runs play and all other corporate and government spyware.
Free and open android was murdered long ago, every modern android user is an iFag in denial.
If you dont use one of the non-android compatible OSes like Ubuntu touch or sailfish I dont want to hear from you. You turned smartphone from cool pocket computers to the ultimate tool of government opression.

ive always had to undo the stupid shit google comes up with

>>105771149
Popping open that backplate on the 5 was easy as fuck compared to most phones these days with fucking superglue on the edges

>>105770881 (OP)
I still use my Nexus 7 (2013). It's the only mobile device I own. I have lineage on it. It's starting to become unusable for web browsing so I mostly use it to view local media. But even then it can't handle certain videos well for some reason. I do a lil' bit of shitposting on it too but a lot of the time it fails the cloudflare test.

My power button is slowly shitting the bed so I have to press it extremely hard to get it to turn on/off. Headphone jack started acting up years ago and will launch some android voice bullshit if I twist the jack too much. I tried disabling this feature but it still does it. Also one of the speakers has stopped working.

All in all its pretty damn good for a USED tablet I bought 11 years ago for like $132.

>>105771429
>>105771450

>>105770881 (OP)
I recharged my Nexus 7 the other day, it still works. The icons then were so complicated, they were each a little pictorial graphic with16 bit gradation. And more and saturated hues, like your pic.

>>105770881 (OP)
OnePlus still have amazing soul phones, much better than iphone

>>105773056
android has always been ifaggotry in denial
the market demographic is made up entirely of people too poor to buy iphones

>>105772957
>Complains about not having soul while using buzzwords
When did this happen exactly?

smartphones never had sovl, they're all restricted-access spying pieces of chink-jeet trash. I refuse to ever use a smartphone, I'd get rid of my dumbphone if I could, but sadly this world is built upon having some sort of phone.