I rocked a Samsung Alias 2 for 4 years before I got an iPhone 5. The e-ink keyboard was awesome how it changed when you flipped the screen open to portrait or landscape.

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        I adored that phone!! I still miss the interchangeable covers instead of adding a stupid case to the phone. I had a few cases I could swap depending on my outfit or the occasion. I wish new phones would adopt a similar idea instead of having to add an extra cover on top of the phone. I don’t need it to look good under the cover. Just make the outside looks nice.

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    I would not call these on the picture “dumb phones” though.

    I had a Motorola phone. I actually liked it because it had a really good camera. The native photo editor was also top notch at the time.

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    A Nokia 3100 … it was the first phone I bought, and I kept it through college and beyond.

    The thing was a beast :-)

    128x128 pixel screen, with 12-bit RGB. No WiFi, no Bluetooth. Had some web access with WAP (no not that! “Wireless Access Protocol”). It did have a camera module though /rofl

    And best of all, the battery lasted a week!

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    I wish phones would go back to being unique. I want a slider with a physical keyboard (like the HTC EVO Shift). My Pixel 6 Pros battery is showing wear already but there’s nothing on the market I feel is worth switching to.

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      Just wish modern devices still had easily removable back covers without needing pry tools and hair dryers.

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        I loved the early galaxies and the zero lemon batteries. They were ridiculously cheap, so you could have like 3 charged at any time. Then if you ever got robbed you could just say “e-waste!” And toss a dead battery at your assailants eyes.

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    LG enV… Clamshell phone with a full keyboard when opened… God, that phone was awesome

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    I had the Envy 2, the last phone I had with an actual physical keyboard.

    It’s the one feature I miss the most. If I could have smartphone functionality with a physical keyboard I would be much happier.

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    This isn’t my hand but I had this lovely bastard:

    I used to be able to chuck it down the stairs and everything.

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        My “iPod Classic”, for all its faults, had survived going under a bus’s wheel unscathed and falling off my bike at speed a few times before I finally consigned it to the box of electronic stuff I wasn’t going to take with me when I emigrated three years ago. The Gameboy colour’s in the cupboard as I type! I might even bring it with me when society collapses and I have to forage.