Friday Fun: what was your favorite phone?
Happy Friday, y'all! 👋
For some reason I've owned way too many phones. Are there any phones that will always be your forever favorite, or deserve a special mention for posterity's sake?
Right now I use an F(x)tec Pro1 to manage Jira projects on the go:
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Oh man missed this thread! I worked for Palm when they produced this phone - one of my favorites - the Palm Centro.
If you want tiny though, check out the Palm Veer:
Wow. $99. Remember when companies competed on price? *SIGH*.
https://www.everythingtreo.com/hp-veer-4g-review/2011/05/09/
I forgot that it was so compact, you had to get an adapter for a headset jack. Remember headset jacks? *SIGH*
I finally came back to that Chrome tab I opened when I saw your F(x)tec phone and thought "What. Is. That?"
Very very cool. As I mentioned, I was lucky enough to work for Palm/PalmSource/Palm/HP for a good number of years, and so phones were not hard to come by. And then later I won that weird Pantech Android phone in an online contest.
Anyways, I love hardware keyboards. Here's some of my moldy collection:
I miss this one specific ringtone from a Sprint flip phone from way back in the day. (Was it the Sanyo Katana II? Maybe!)
I can still sing it and it goes like this:
Doo doo da doo, doo da doot da doo RRRROOOO ROOOOO!
Doo doo da doo, doo da doot da doo RRRROOOO ROOOOO!
Doo doo da doo, DOODLEY DOO!
I've been trying for years to find a downloadable ringtone but turns out it's not so easy to Google.
My wife and I had matching red and blue Nokia phones at one point long ago. We liked their size and the games. Yes, they had games.
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I miss my old Sony Ericsson w595. I must admit I liked it basically only because of the flower design... I'm a girl, so, you know... :-)
Hi @Dave Liao,
Used a lot of mobile devices for the last couple of years but the most unbreakable phone I have used a long time back was Nokia 1100. I will consider it as my favorite phone.
Nowadays I using many devices and there is no specific one because every day there was a new phone is being launched and I'm testing them all just for knowledge, use cases & fun.
Great topic @Dave Liao!
I'm a big fan of smart phones! From the various ways to communicate and receive news and updates to the ability to play games that look better than my original Nintendo. I will never want to go back to a phone that pre-dates the smart phone era.
However, my favorite phone from that era, was my Motorola Razr:
My first phone was an Alcatel one Touch easy in orange...approximately 20 years ago 🙈... than I had a Nokia 7650, a Motorola RAZR and of course a Blackberry Pearl 8110... but since about 13 years now I am an Apple addict 😊 Iphone 12 pro max in Blue right now and I love it 🥰
I have just realised that I have a soft spot for unusual colours. 😃
How minty?
I asked my friend (@sblarts on Instagram) to illustrate me with a cat, and I got it printed on an iPhone case. My friend picked a shade of green (?) that I didn't request, but worked well with my yellow t-shirt:
Good topic @Dave Liao
I always like my Ericsson T28 flip phone. Got as a work phone when I started working for the company I still work for today 1st of July 2000. Small, sleek, and thin. Fitted well in my pockets :)
Hi @Dave Liao ,
Thanks for the topic :) I like my Sony Ericsson, it's real nostalgy, where I changed a bytes and open decompiler (+hexviewer) to change a behaviours of java applets.
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Late reply but oh my god!
I truly miss my parent hand-me-down Nokia N97, with it's own Nokia services that no one knew about and the OVI app store that had.... a really bad 3D port of snake. I felt like a god when I had a synced calendar on this bad boy (and I could make the phone such a pink eyesore)!
Of course I'm again late for the party .... many phone brands already mentioned but let's not forget the all time favorite MATRIX phone Nokia 7110
After seeing the movie I needed this one so badly (let's better say stupidly) even though it wasn't actually the one they were using... Teeny coolness overload - NOT 😅 Still no idea how anyone could think this swoosh function thing is cool....
You legend! What a great Firday Fun topic.... I never dreamed that these Memes would come in so handy so quickly again... hahaha! THX
My favourite phone is THIS type...
My parents had a proper vintage one. Unfortunately it was obselette due to changes in cables/infrastructure/dial-tones/etc. but I had so much FUN as a wee nipper playing with it again and again, pretending I was calling people with the most random and long numbers ever.
"HELLO!? YEAH... I'M AT HOME... NAH... IT'S RUBBISH... CIAO!" (Dom Joly... legend!)
What I miss the most about phones from that era is being able to slam the fuckers real hard when you were totally done with someone.....
"I completely disagree with your point of view. Thanks for breaking up with me over phone. Conversation: OVER!" SLAM! Boom! hahaha
@Andy - PTC Redundant - I don't recall ever having owned a rotary phone, but it's super cool how dialing a number on one of those. The earliest phone I remember having in the home was a cordless phone, and that was only because my dad loves new gadgets and went out of his way to get one.
(not the actual device we had, but it was basically the same)
I loved having this phone, and felt extra-fancy with my own phone line as a teenager. Though I can't imagine going back to answering without caller id! and no voicemail!
This was my favorite phone, the Droid Pro. While everyone was transitioning to the all-touch-screen and playing the latest games on appstores, surprisingly I was still able to play a few apps like "Draw with friends" with this bad boy!
Well, sort of on the edge of this discussion, in the mid '90s, before the advent of smartphones, I had my Motorola cell connected to this Windows CE based Cassiopeia A11 - I cant count how many times it saved me by being able to dial in and telnet a connection to do some remote work. At the time it was cutting edge!
Ohhhh... I always wanted one of those 😂🙈 embarrassing 😂
T-Mobile Sidekick
Oh man, what a trip down memory lane. One of my first jobs was selling cell phones for BellSouth Mobility, which became Cingular, which is now AT&T. Way to come back full circle from trying to break up Ma Bell, but I digress.
I started selling those when the only options were a Car phone or a Brick Phone, I know, I know, I am dating myself. When this thing came in the market, it sold like hot cakes:
Then came the Nokia's and Ericsson's, but when Motorola dropped this baby, this was the sign that you had money to burn, lol
I don't know which one was my favorite, I really liked the Razr, and just about every Nokia I had.
I'm pretty happy with my Pixel smartphone, but I really loved being on the bleeding edge about 20 years ago with my Treos. I had two; the first was the one on the left, when the devices were still produced by Palm - no physical keyboard; there was a small area where you used a stylus with a very stylized alphabet to input.
The second one was the newer, fancier model with a color screen; I got one as part of the beta program thanks to a family friend who worked for Handspring.
@Malka Jackson [Isos Technology] - your post made me laugh as I read "drop kick". 😂
The Nokia 6820 is the phone I look back on most fondly - it was rugged, functional, and had incredible battery life along with the features I needed. Thanks for a great topic @Dave Liao - it's been a nice walk down memory lane as I've carried many of the phones mentioned since they replaced the on-call pagers I started out with way back in the last century. :-P
