This is what they took from you.

fragile af

>>105933187

>>105933187
Trvthnvke, this is what millenians are afraid to admit.

>>105933187
It never broke, unlike my gf's 5 piece of shit iFaggots.
I have a CAT something.

>>105933179 (OP)

>>105933187
fuck no zoomer imbecile

mad?

OH BOY I SURE MISS
>polyphonic ringtones
>tiny speakers
>proprietary chargers
>proprietary headphone connectors
>charge ports changing between models
>MemoryStick
>MMC
>Syncing/transferring using specific proprietary software from the phone vendor like PhoneTools and PC Companion
>DRM/Non-standard formats like.mmf
>every phone having completely different software and app ecosystems

>>105933187
>>105933234
it's not really fragile, companies used to know how to engineer things.
Ironically, the less complicated hardware has gotten, the worse engineering has become.
you could drop any one of those and they'd be fine, but drop an iphone from more than a few feet and you'll have broken glass

>>105933295
Yes it sucked, but it's also sovl to use proprietary crap

>>105933295
phones would have eventually all adopted usb-c regardless. And all the rest of those relics of the time would have been resolved too.

Is that a bidet? Innovative!

>>105933316
>phones would have eventually all adopted usb-c regardless.
Not without a centralizing force like Android.
Every phone maker at the time just wanted to lock you into their own particular brand of slop.

>>105933331
only because there was no better alternative. If not Apple or Android, Razr would have probably standardized the market.

>>105933295
nokia used microSD and you could just copy and paste files

>>105933351
Not until mid-2005 they didn't, they used MMC as previously discussed.
Learn history, zoomgroid.

I never had any of these. I had a shitty nokia 3210 until like 2012 until I got some shitty bottom dollar "smart" phone from the supermarket I don't remember the name of. All my friends had motorola razrs and shit and I was always jealous.

>>105933179 (OP)
worthless garbage? ok poorfag

>>105933370
I'm a millennial but I got my first phone in 2006.

>>105933393
why do you make declarative statements on shit you know nothing about?
I’m a millennial and my first phone was in 1999, a Nokia 3210.

>>105933179 (OP)
I hate ipad phones so much. god hated ipad phones so much he gave jobs anal cancer.

>>105933423
ok boomer

>>105933712
Was your family too poor to get you a phone when you were a kid? KEK

>>105933727
So did you work for anything as a teenager or did mommy and daddy buy you everything?

>>105933179 (OP)
slidy shit that will get fucked over time with use.. there is a reason they dont do it anymore!

>>105933757
As a teenager? lmfao what?
I was 7 in 1999. I text my family and a few friends from my primary school, and played Snake. When I got a 3310, I played the shit out of Snake II and Space Impact.

Sorry that you’ve lived such a depraved life. I understand however that it is common in India.

>>105933777
*deprived, not depraved

>>105933179 (OP)
Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened.

>>105933295
>proprietary headphone connectors
Mine had a separate headphone jack that double as an antenna for radio signal.

>>105933331
Not really, they all had their own OS because no one shared with each other but when java managed to set an standard they all quickly adopted it, software's sole purpose was to sell hardware back then not the other way around like it is now when hardware is sold at a loss sometimes to lock you into their platform.

>>105933870
J2ME was fucking horrible and filled with incompatibility between phone models, don’t even attempt to rewrite history.

>>105933879
That was on the developers, good apps like opera mini worked almost universally, some others worked only on Nokia phones, the hardware was too wild to account for every edge case even.

>>105933187
True. The ribbon on both my N80 and N95 8GB failed. Twice on the N80. In hindsight, the N82 would have been a much better purchase than the N95 8GB. There was nothing like the N80 at the time. N73 lacked WLAN and had the joystick meme, which was even more fragile than N80's ribbon.

>>105933295
>proprietary chargers
unlike today when we have ... lightning
>proprietary headphone connectors
...lightning
>charge ports changing between models
...lightning
>MemoryStick
...no card at all
>MMC
...no card at all
>Syncing/transferring using specific proprietary software from the phone vendor like PhoneTools and PC Companion
...iTunes
>DRM/Non-standard formats like.mmf
...m4a, m4b, m4r, alac
>every phone having completely different software and app ecosystems
...iTunes

>>105933179 (OP)
I blame waterproofing for sovlless design

>>105933295
Proprietary chargers so what. You could get +2wk standby time with these. Forgot to take a charger for a trip? No big deal.

>>105933187
Yeah but it's not like modern phones are faring any better, sadly

>>105933879
>J2ME
sovl

>>105934012
I know you're a Pajeet seething that you can't afford a decent phone, but it seems to have escaped your notice that iPhones use USB-C now, most phones don't have card slots anymore, iTunes is depracated and M4A is a container and not a codec, which can include the standardized AAC.
TL;DR: Poo in loo obsessed retard

>>105933727
I had a nokia when I was 12 and was born in 1993. Then I had 3 samsung flip phones with the alias 1 and alias 2 being the most based.

>>105933757
Why would you make children work?

>>105933793
>"Operator."

>>105938280
I liked the Samsung E250

>>105933295
let's not forget sending low res jpgs over infrared taking up to a minute lol

polyphonic ringtones were and are cool as fuck though.

>>105933179 (OP)
Unimpressed until the slider keyboard showed up @0:23.

>>105933295
Nobody said it was perfect, but it was better than today. Also, all pf these aren't true for all models, especially later ones.
>every phone having completely different software and app ecosystems
90% of phones with apps had J2ME.

>>105933295
still better than the soulless glass rectangles of today

Fidget spinners for millenials.

>>105933295
this but unsarcastically

>>105933235
How did she break her iphones? Are you dating a down syndrome patient?

>>105933179 (OP)
SOVL

>>105933295
this was only a problem with one brand
nokia the undisputed champion of the time used the generic dc power jack and 3.5mm audio

tech gimmicks wow

>>105940362
Congrats on not reading the thread: >>105933879

>>105933179 (OP)
Just like with moon landing!

>>105942692
Ahh, another zoomer.
Nokia 6680 series, 6020 series, 6630, N70, N80, N90, 7380, 9300 etc all used the Pop-Port.
Now kys

>>105938280
Probably one of the top 3 dumb flip phones ever produced. With the extended battery it lasted forever and texting was a breeze. And stereo speakers. Even early smartphones at least continued doing interesting things (RIP windows mobile) before the iPhone and Galaxy destroyed all joy.

Phones with movable divices, ribbon cables between joints eventually break and die

>>105942796
so just a handful instead of phones being literal clones of each other like today fuck are you crying about idiot

>>105942867
>just a handful
>entire series of phones, including flagships and business lines
you really need to kys for being this much of a zoomer

>>105933300
I had a flip phone. Most of it was relatively thick plastic by volume so if you dropped it the plastic would just deform inelastically and absorb most of the energy. Modern phones are just 6 layers of tech crap with
a) practically a vacuum formed sheet "case" so that you're not just holding a pile of electronics in your hand
b) hard metal and glass that either absorbs all of the energy by exploding or transferring 100% of it to something that will.
c) fragile components like 12 layer circuit boards with tiny bga chips, screens, cameras with a zillion lenses and servos, a battery that's just a couple cells in a flimsy plastic bag etc.

Sometimes if it hit hard enough the back cover would pop off but usually even that wouldn't happen and it would just get another dent.

>>105933879
I set up the sdk for fun and it was a thousand times easier even after it's been abandoned than any of the modern smartphone sdks.

Not to mention not having to deal with a review process when you release the apps.

>>105942955
you dont have to worry about reusability of petty accessories on a business line because those are bought by organizations for people anyway and there are a lot of flagships not on that list

>>105933300
It's fragile compared to the candybar phones normal people used back then.
And people weren't careful with phones like they are now.
They were treated as tools, tossed around and thrown.

thread theme
https://vocaroo.com/1koUsObfDaPa

>>105933187
>>105933234
Truth nuke my arse. My nokia 6600, n78 and the LG v20 either remain intact or have the back cover and battery separate when I accidentally dropped them.
We never used tempered glass sheet on the pre android phones.

>>105942847
I had the second model as well but it was inferior. The first model was thinner and more perfect while the second had the keyboard display different characters when rotated and larger for ergonomics.

>>105933179 (OP)
Mobile phones are for shitskins.

>>105938280
I loved my alias, even found a little hack that would eat your minutes when using data so I could do a simple search while I was out.
Really wish I could use it again just for the novelty but Verizon ruined that

>>105937104
And yet some fags can't even make a functional 2D game in 2025 without japanese pornographic school girl images all over it.

>>105933179 (OP)
holy SOゥL

>>105933187
>>105933234
You're joking right? They weren't called bricks for nothing.

These were durable and could take being dropped and thrown around. Except for the Ericsson, of course.

>>105943855
What are you babbling about?

>>105933179 (OP)
My Mi Mix 3 is so fucking good

>>105933179 (OP)
I liked sliders because you could do stuff without opening the keyboard.

>>105933295
>>proprietary headphone connectors
this is what I hated the most, we already had phones with decent microsd cards and a good music player UI yet they ruined it by not letting you use any headphone you had but the one that came with your phone if any. Phone manufacturers could have wiped mp3 players way earlier if they actually did their job properly

>>105933179 (OP)
This is why antitrust law is important and you have to keep up the game of wack a mole.

>>105933879
False and you are obviously jeet trash who wasn’t there for it. The only hardware-specific thing you had to contend with were soft key codes, and it was like 12 lines of code to cover all the codes for 99% of the phones out there. Android and even iOS are far more fragmented developer experiences now.

>>105933187
>it has moving parts, so it must be fragile
i wish people wouldn't make some retarded assumption, if they know nothing about a subject

>>105945210
At that time, you had an mp3 player anyway.
The storage on phones was too tiny for music and you got pic related for free gifted out on random marketing campaigns.
So you used the proprietary phone connector for charging only, and charge once a week. It was bare an issue.

>>105941099
I buy her tight pants with pockets, she sits or flops hard with a phone in the back pocket and the screen cracks.
My CAT fell from the top of an apartment building and had just a few deep scratches in the rubber shell.

>>105945661
why do you have a rubber cat

More moving parts = more points of failure, retard

My favourite phone I've ever owned was my LG env2. It was just so very cool and I miss it dearly.

>>105933234
>>105943249
>>105933300
>>105942988
>>105943115
>>105944460
I took my flipphones skate boarding. most of them survived being my hand guard during a spill.

>>105933727
yes.

>>105933295
>tiny speakers
Why do you need speakers on your phone other than to hear the ringtone and notifications?
A-are you one of those retards that listen to music or movies in public on their phone speakers?

>>105933234
shut the fuck up zoomers, those things NEVER broke. fall off your bike. go slamdancing. someone bump into you while you were holding over the edge of the 2nd floor balcony. not once.
and the battery lasted a week.

>>105933793
tank, i need an exit

>>105933187
Believe it or not stupid Zoomer things weren't always shit. You have no reference because you're used to $1000 phones being made with low quality materials designed to break.

>>105940492
I'm a 90s retard that was lucky to have a parent in tech and had every gadget imaginable.
I'll take that soulless slab over 90% of the shit I've had, closest to it were Palm and HP pocket PCs which truly were way ahead of smartphones when they came out, and the first PSP.

>>105946959
Even nowadays I find UIs to be fucking shit compared to this absolute productive white man's interface.
Fuck off with your bouncy memefully animated widgets

>>105946990
do you think joe fucked kate?

>>105947004
Yes, and it's a reccuring meeting.

>>105933179 (OP)
#MeToo

>>105947089
HIGH FIVE (as todd from scrubs)

>>105946959
The iPaq was top tier. Full size SD, compact flash, stylus and track pad, bluetooth. Absolute beast.

>>105945898
this shit and an unlimited texting plan was the ultimate combo for being one of the popular kids. They all had this fucking thing

>>105947089
They've been married 22 years now and their son is working through his last year of aircraft mechanic school. He's taken his parents up on flights a few times, which makes Joe grin at the confidence his son now has. He's come so far from the timid child who was afraid of getting kicked at soccer practice. He's his own man now.

The years have been kind to Kate with only slight wrinkles at the corners of her eyes when she smiles, as she often does. She's preparing lunch right now for Joe, who has taken a week off from work to build those planter boxes she's been asking for. A tall glass of lemonade sits in a sunbeam coming through the western window of the kitchen in their little house on the outskirts of town, droplets of condensation slowly finding their way down the glass.

>>105947548
on occasion, she still has that glow that women in the 90s had.

>>105938333
I fucking love sliders. I only got this piece of shit because it's a slider (and I wanted to look cool around classmates - it did the trick flawlessly)

>>105933179 (OP)
I remember seeing a dude running around outside in 1997/98 with one of these things

>>105934012
>Old phones were shit
>Haha chud modern phones are shit too see [itoddler issues]
KEK

>>105933179 (OP)
Mistakes were made.

>>105933295
>polyphonic ringtones
You are a dumb faggot zoomer I suppose you enjoy monophonic ringtones now?

the amount of worthless shit mankind has produced over the last 30 years boggles the mind.

>>105952147
poggers

I miss using this lil nigga like you wouldn't believe
(it still works)

>>105933179 (OP)
Most of those are just camera covers.

>>105945898
>>105947541
I had one of these and I don't remember what I did exactly, but I flashed some kind of different broswer on it just for fun and somehow it wasn't detected by my plan and I had free internet. Of course it was like in 2009 so it was painful to use and very slow, but whatever.

>>105933295
kys zoomer

>>105933611
but iphones were decently sized while jobs was alive, only once he died they blew up in size androjeet style

>>105933248
Exactly what the fuck were you trying to do here?

>>105955293
still crap because no real buttons
it was a new thing gimmick and it sold good
this doesn't mean it's not crap

>>105933187
Bullshit you idiotic zoomer

>>105945661
>I buy her tight pants with pockets
don't?

>>105933235
>I have a CAT something.
based

>>105945910
>A-are you one of those retards that listen to music or movies in public on their phone speakers?
I hate gypsies so much it's unreal

>>105950446
thicc boi

>>105955981
That is just room for a bigger battery. The OS was a much more sane Linux OS than the Android spyware mess we have today. Combine this with a split mode design like pic. related and we have real progress, the Solarpunk future we all need.

>>105956470
Now add the keyboard from pic. related and you are golden: the 4ch phone.

>>105956470
this looks fucking awesome.

Also
>/g/ designs a phone
I wish I still had that image but looks like some company decided they wanted to use it as a blueprint

https://youtu.be/5XZMnc6MDhA

>>105933423
nokia 3210 is like the neet uncle version of the nokia 3310, sorry bro

but yeah i got the 3210 too, i remember it being such a big deal because it was one of the first few mobile phones without those stupid antennas and people were so excited about that lol

>>105947979
if joe was born in 2000 he'd be a lonely incel, these two lucked out being born at the right time to experience just the right amount of tech

>>105933295
That pic just brought me back lol

>>105933295
>>polyphonic ringtones
sovl
>>tiny speakers
sovl
>>proprietary chargers
came with the phone unlike today lol
>>proprietary headphone connectors
came with the phone too lol
>>charge ports changing between models
who cares when you got the cable?
>>MemoryStick
>>MMC
sovl. same with sd adapters to those.
>>Syncing/transferring using specific proprietary software from the phone vendor like PhoneTools and PC Companion
itunes was fucking garbage I admit but these phones came with browsers you could download shit from. or just email slop to yourself.
>>DRM/Non-standard formats like.mmf
got nuked the moment manufacturers were forced to adapt to standard formats. if your phone couldn't do mp3 no one would buy it
>>every phone having completely different software and app ecosystems
things having their own fucking identity, imagine that

>>105942770
Fair enough.
>>105933879
You never criticized it for being shit in the original comment, so how is he rewriting history???

>>105933179 (OP)
good, they were shit
consider getting into a marginally less retarded hobby where you can buy electric garbage like flashlights or some shit
this zoomer circlejerk over old dumbphones is tolerable on this shithole board, but if you actually buy and use one IRL it'll look almost as autistic as a pocket watch

>>105958624
>one of the first few mobile phones without those stupid antennas
Didn't the 7000 series already do that in the mid-90s?

>>105933187
gr8 b8 m8

>>105933179 (OP)
I really miss the dual-direction flip and eink keyboard of my samsung alias 2

>>105933187
zoomer detected

>>105933295
>MemoryStick
i miss this

>>105962734
>>105955696
>>105946735
>>105933249
old faggots taking bait
zoomers had these phones as kids
you are OLD
CRUSTY RETARD

>>105952207
I wanted to buy but it was discontinued. Got w660i instead.